Message from Reg. 343
Chairman of Central STEAM-PIPES AND FITTINGS
Boilers Board
• Pipes
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Board 1) Steam-pipes may be carbon steel, cast steel, alloy steel and in some cases of copper.
• Steel pipes may be solid drawn (cold or hot finished), butt welded or electric resistance
History of Indian Boiler welded. Copper pipes shall be solid drawn and no pipe made from electro-deposition
Regulations of copper on a mandrill shall be used for steam delivery.
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Foreword Provided that subject to satisfactory flattening test, pipes to IS:1239 of 13mm
• to 51mm nominal bore for working pressure up to 10.5 kg/cm2 at saturation
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2) Where, however, material used is in conformity with the code of the country of
• manufacture and it is covered by these regulations, the permissible stress figures
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computed from the data required to be furnished under Regulation 350. In any of the
• following cases:-
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• (i) Where a certificate is furnished from the Inspecting
Indian Boilers authority to the effect that the steel complies with
Act 1923 requirements of the grade steel (to be specified) and that
• the permissible stress for the working conditions as allowed
Ibr Forms for in the code of the country of manufacture falls within the
limits permissible under the Regulations.
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Home (ii) Where the basis upon which these stresses have been
arrived at is made available and such basis is not found to
• be such as to give rise to stresses higher than those
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permissible under the Regulations.
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Help Where pipes have to be fabricated by longitudinal fusion butt electric arc welding of
• plates rolled to shape, the limits prescribed for butt welded pipes in Table 2 under
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minimum thickness of shell for fusion butt welding prescribed in Chapter XII shall be
applicable to such pipes.

 
3) Notwithstanding anything contained in Chapter VIII, the hydraulic test for
pipes in maker's premises may be dispensed with by the Inspecting Authority:

Provided that these pipes have been fully tested by approved radiographic or
ultrasonic techniques:

Provided further that in the case of pipes having internal diameter 600mm
and more, the plates used for the manufacture of pipes and the long seam welds of
pipes are fully tested by approved non-destructive test; for example, ultrasonic or
radiographic testing and the soundness of pipes both in the parent material and in the
weld is established in the maker's premises; and the whole component of the pipes,
after completion of any further fabrication and erection at site, are hydraulically tested
at a pressure not less than 1.5 times the design pressure of the piping system:

Provided also that in the event of detection of any defect after

conducting hydraulic test of these pipes at site, it shall be the responsibility of
 the manufacturer to repair or replace the defective pipes, as may be deemed
necessary by the Inspecting Authority.

 
4) Electric fusion welded pipes in which the butt welds are fully radiographed or
ultrasonically tested need not be hydraulically tested in the shops provided the pipe
system as a whole is hydraulically tested at site to the requisite test pressure in
accordance with regulation 374.
5) In the case of fusion welded pipes test plates to represent all welded seams shall be
attached at each end of longitudinal seam and tested in accordance with the
requirements of Chapter XII except that one test plate may represent a lot of pipes up
to 60 metres in length and of the same grade of material and same thickness of the
pipe subject to the same heat treatment.

   

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