Subsection A General Requirements

Requirements Pertaining to Methods of Fabrication of Pressure Part UG

Subsection B Vessels
Part UW
Part UF
Part UB
Subsection C Requirements Pertaining to Classes of Materials
Part UCS
Part UNF
Part UHA
Part UCI
Part UCL
Part UCD
Part UHT
Part ULW
Part ULT
Part UHX
Part UIG
Mandatory Appendix 1 Supplementary Design Formulas
Mandatory Appendix 2 Rules for Bolted Flange Connections With Ring Type Gaskets
Mandatory Appendix 3 Definitions
Rounded Indications Charts Acceptance Standard for Radiographically
Mandatory Appendix 4 Determined Rounded Indications in Welds
Mandatory Appendix 5 Flexible Shell Element Expansion Joints
Mandatory Appendix 6 Methods for Magnetic Particle Examination (MT)
Mandatory Appendix 7 Examination of Steel Castings
Mandatory Appendix 8 Methods for Liquid Penetrant Examination (PT)
Mandatory Appendix 9 Jacketed Vessels
Mandatory Appendix 10 Quality Control System
Mandatory Appendix 11 Capacity Conversions for Safety Valves
Mandatory Appendix 12 Ultrasonic Examination of Welds (UT)
Mandatory Appendix 13 Vessels of Noncircular Cross Section
Integral Flat Heads With a Large, Single, Circular, Centrally
Mandatory Appendix 14 Located Opening
Mandatory Appendix 17 Dimpled or Embossed Assemblies
Mandatory Appendix 18 Adhesive Attachment of Nameplates
Mandatory Appendix 19 Electrically Heated or Gas-Fired Jacketed Steam Kettles
Mandatory Appendix 20 Hubs Machined From Plate
Mandatory Appendix 21 Jacketed Vessels Constructed of Work‐Hardened Nickel
Mandatory Appendix 22 Integrally Forged Vessels
External Pressure Design of Copper, Copper Alloy, and Titanium
Alloy Condenser and Heat Exchanger Tubes With Integral
Mandatory Appendix 23 Fins
Mandatory Appendix 24 Design Rules for Clamp Connections
Mandatory Appendix 26 Bellows Expansion Joints
Mandatory Appendix 27 Alternative Requirements for Glass‐Lined Vessels
Mandatory Appendix 30 Rules for Drilled Holes Not Penetrating Through Vessel Wall
Rules for Cr–Mo Steels With Additional Requirements for
Mandatory Appendix 31 Welding and Heat Treatment
Local Thin Areas in Cylindrical Shells and in Spherical Segments
Mandatory Appendix 32 of Shells
Mandatory Appendix 33 Standard Units for Use in Equations
Requirements for Use of High Silicon Stainless Steels for
Mandatory Appendix 34 Pressure Vessels
Mandatory Appendix 35 Rules for Mass Production of Pressure Vessels
Standard Test Method for Determining the Flexural Strength
Mandatory Appendix 36 of Certified Materials Using Three‐Point Loading
Standard Test Method for Determining the Tensile Strength of
Mandatory Appendix 37 Certified Impregnated Graphite Materials
Standard Test Method for Compressive Strength of Impregnated
Mandatory Appendix 38 Graphite
Mandatory Appendix 39 Testing the Coefficient of Permeability of Impregnated Graphite
Thermal Expansion Test Method for Graphite and Impregnated
Mandatory Appendix 40 Graphite
Mandatory Appendix 41 Electric Immersion Heater Element Support Plates
Mandatory Appendix 42 Diffusion Bonding
Establishing Governing Code Editions and Cases for Pressure
Mandatory Appendix 43 Vessels and Parts
Mandatory Appendix 44 Cold Stretching of Austenitic Stainless Steel Pressure Vessels
Mandatory Appendix 45 Plate Heat Exchangers
Mandatory Appendix 46 Rules for Use of Section VIII, Division 2
General Requirements for All Methods of Construction and All
Materials

Requirements for Pressure Vessels Fabricated by Welding

Requirements for Pressure Vessels Fabricated by Forging
Requirements for Pressure Vessels Fabricated by Brazing
Requirements for Pressure Vessels Constructed of Carbon and
Low Alloy Steels
Requirements for Pressure Vessels Constructed of Nonferrous
Materials
Requirements for Pressure Vessels Constructed of High Alloy
Steel
Requirements for Pressure
Material With Corrosion VesselsIntegral
Resistant Constructed of Cast
Cladding, Iron
Weld
Metal Overlay for
Requirements Cladding, or Applied
Pressure Linings
Vessels Constructed of Cast Ductile
Iron
Steels With Tensile Properties Enhanced by Heat
Treatment
Requirements for Pressure Vessels Fabricated by Layered
Construction
Alternative Rules for Pressure Vessels Constructed of Materials
Having Higher Allowable Stresses at Low Temperature
Rules for Shell-and-Tube
Requirements Heat
for Pressure Exchangers
Vessels Constructed of Impregnated
Graphite
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MATERIALS
UG-4
UG-5

UG-6
UG-7
UG-8
UG-9
UG-10
UG-11
UG-12
UG-13
UG-14
UG-15
DESIGN
UG-16
UG-17
UG-18
UG-19
UG-20
UG-21
UG-22
UG-23
UG-24
UG-25
UG-26
UG-27
UG-28
UG-29
UG-30
UG-31
UG-32
UG-33
UG-34
UG-35
OPENINGS AND REINFORCEMENTS26
UG-36
UG-37
UG-38
UG-39
UG-40
UG-41
UG-42
UG-43
UG-44
 UG-45
UG-46
BRACED AND STAYED SURFACES
UG-47
UG-48
UG-49
UG-50
LIGAMENTS
UG-53
UG-54
UG-55
FABRICATION
UG-75
UG-76
UG-77
UG-78
UG-79
UG-80
UG-81
UG-82
UG-83
UG-84
UG-85
INSPECTION AND TESTS
UG-90
UG-91
UG-92
UG-93
UG-94
UG-95
UG-96
UG-97
UG-98
UG-99
UG-100
UG-101
UG-102
UG-103
MARKING AND REPORTS
UG-115
UG-116
UG-117
UG-118
UG-119
UG-120
OVERPRESSURE PROTECTION
UG-125
UG-126
UG-127
UG-128
UG-129
UG-130
UG-131
UG-132
UG-133
UG-134
UG-135
UG-136
UG-137
UG-138
UG-140
SCOPE

GENERAL
PLATE

FORGINGS
CASTINGS
PIPE AND TUBES
WELDING MATERIALS
MATERIAL IDENTIFIED
PRESSURE PARTS WITH OR
FURNISHED PRODUCED TO A SPECIFICATION NOT PERMITTED BY THIS DIVISION, AND MATERIAL NOT FUL
WITHOUT
A CERTIFICATION MARK
BOLTS AND STUDS
NUTS AND WASHERS
RODS AND BARS
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION

GENERAL OF FABRICATION IN
METHODS
COMBINATION
MATERIALS IN COMBINATION
SPECIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
DESIGN TEMPERATURE
DESIGN PRESSURE11
LOADINGS
MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE STRESS
VALUES12
CASTINGS
CORROSION
LININGS
THICKNESS OF SHELLS UNDER INTERNAL
PRESSURE
THICKNESS OF SHELLS AND TUBES
UNDER EXTERNAL
STIFFENING RINGS PRESSURE
FOR CYLINDRICAL
SHELLS UNDER EXTERNAL PRESSURE
ATTACHMENT OF WHEN
TUBES, AND PIPE STIFFENING
USED RINGS
AS TUBES
OR SHELLSHEADS, AND SECTIONS,
FORMED
PRESSURE ON CONCAVE
FORMED HEADS, SIDE
PRESSURE ON CONVEX
SIDE
UNSTAYED FLAT HEADS AND COVERS
OTHER TYPES OF CLOSURES

OPENINGS
OPENINGS IN
IN PRESSURE VESSELS
SHELLS AND FORMED
HEADS
FLUED OPENINGS IN SHELLS AND
FORMED HEADS REQUIRED FOR
REINFORCEMENT
OPENINGS IN FLAT HEADS AND COVERS
LIMITS OF REINFORCEMENT
STRENGTH OF REINFORCEMENT
REINFORCEMENT OF MULTIPLE
OPENINGS
METHODS OF ATTACHMENT OF PIPE
AND NOZZLE NECKS TO VESSEL WALLS
FLANGES AND PIPE FITTINGS
NOZZLE NECK THICKNESS
INSPECTION OPENINGS30

BRACED AND STAYED SURFACES

STAYBOLTS
LOCATION OF STAYBOLTS
DIMENSIONS OF STAYBOLTS
Calculation
LIGAMENTS
SUPPORTS
OTHER ATTACHMENTS TO VESSEL
WALLS

GENERAL
CUTTING PLATES AND OTHER STOCK
MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION (SEE UG-85)
REPAIR OF DEFECTS IN MATERIALS
FORMING PRESSURE
CYLINDRICAL, PARTS
CONICAL, AND
SPHERICAL SHELLS
TOLERANCE FOR FORMED HEADS
LUGS AND FITTING ATTACHMENTS
HOLES FOR SCREW STAYS
CHARPY IMPACT TESTS
HEAT TREATMENT

GENERAL
THE INSPECTOR
ACCESS FOR INSPECTOR
INSPECTION OF MATERIALS
MARKING ON MATERIALS
EXAMINATION OF SURFACES DURING
FABRICATION
DIMENSIONAL CHECK OF COMPONENT
PARTS
INSPECTION DURING FABRICATION
MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE WORKING
PRESSURE
STANDARD HYDROSTATIC TEST
PNEUMATIC
PROOF TESTSTEST36 (SEE UW-50)
TO ESTABLISH MAXIMUM
ALLOWABLE WORKING PRESSURE
TEST GAGES
NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING

REQUIRED MARKING
CERTIFICATES OF AUTHORIZATION AND
CERTIFICATION MARKS
METHODS OF MARKING
NAMEPLATES
DATA REPORTS

GENERAL
PRESSURE RELIEFPRESSURE
NONRECLOSING VALVES44RELIEF
DEVICES
LIQUID PRESSURE RELIEF VALVES
MARKING
CERTIFICATION
CERTIFICATION MARK
OF CAPACITY OF
PRESSURE RELIEF
COMBINATION DEVICES
WITH NONRECLOSING
PRESSURE RELIEF
DETERMINATION OFDEVICES
PRESSURE-RELIEVING REQUIREMENTS
PRESSURE SETTINGS AND
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR
PRESSURE RELIEF
MINIMUM VALVES FOR
REQUIREMENTS
RUPTURE DISK DEVICES
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PIN
DEVICES
OVERPRESSURE PROTECTION BY
SYSTEM DESIGN
 (a) Forged material may be used in pressure vessel
construction, provided the material has been worked
sufficiently
to remove the coarse ingot structure

NOT PERMITTED BY THIS DIVISION, AND MATERIAL NOT FULLY IDENTIFIED

MINIMUM THICKNESS REQUIRMENT 1.5mm

Tell tale hole

UCS-28

UG-35.1 Dished Covers

UG-35.2 Quick-Actuating Closures
UG-35.3 Quick-Opening Closures
UW-49 Check of Postweld Heat Treatment Practice
UW-40 Procedures for Postweld Heat Treatment UCS-56
Thickness of Shells Under External Pressure
Requirements for Postweld Heat Treatment
 Part UW Requirements for Pressure Vessels Fabricated by Welding
General
UW-1 Scope
UW-2 Service Restrictions
UW-3 Welded Joint Category
Materials
UW-5 General
UW-6 Nonmandatory Guidelines for Welding Material Selections
Design
UW-8 General
UW-9 Design of Welded Joints
UW-10 Postweld Heat Treatment
UW-11 Radiographic and Ultrasonic Examination
UW-12 Joint Efficiencies
UW-13 Attachment Details
UW-14 Openings in or Adjacent to Welds
UW-15 Welded Connections
UW-16 Minimum Requirements for Attachment Welds at Openings
UW-17 Plug Welds
UW-18 Fillet Welds
UW-19 Welded Stayed Construction
UW-20 Tube‐to‐Tubesheet Welds
UW-21 ASME B16.5 Socket and Slip-on Flange Welds
Fabrication
UW-26 General
UW-27 Welding Processes
UW-28 Qualification of Welding Procedure
UW-29 Tests of Welders and Welding Operators
UW-30 Lowest Permissible Temperatures for Welding
UW-31 Cutting, Fitting, and Alignment
UW-32 Cleaning of Surfaces to Be Welded
UW-33 Alignment Tolerance
UW-34 Spin‐Holes
UW-35 Finished Longitudinal and Circumferential Joints
UW-36 Fillet Welds
UW-37 Miscellaneous Welding Requirements
UW-38 Repair of Weld Defects
UW-39 Peening
UW-40 Procedures for Postweld Heat Treatment
UW-41 Sectioning of Welded Joints
UW-42 Surface Weld Metal Buildup
Inspection and Tests
UW-46 General
UW-47 Check of Welding Procedure
UW-48 Check of Welder and Welding Operator Qualifications
UW-49 Check of Postweld
Nondestructive Heat Treatment
Examination Practice
of Welds on Pneumatically Tested
UW-50 Vessels
UW-51 Radiographic Examination of Welded Joints
UW-52 Spot Examination of Welded Joints
UW-53 Ultrasonic Examination of Welded Joints
UW-54 Qualification of Nondestructive Examination Personnel
Marking and Reports
UW-60 General
 Vessels Constructed of Carbon and
Low Alloy Steels
General
UCS-1 Scope
Materials
UCS-5 General
UCS-6 Steel Plates
UCS-7 Steel Forgings
UCS-8 Steel Castings
UCS-9 Steel Pipe and Tubes
UCS-10 Bolt Materials
UCS-11 Nuts and Washers
UCS-12 Bars and Shapes
Design
UCS-16 General
UCS-19 Welded Joints
UCS-23 Maximum Allowable Stress Values
UCS-27 Shells Made From Pipe
UCS-28 Thickness of Shells Under External Pressure
UCS-29 Stiffening Rings for Shells Under External Pressure
UCS-30 Attachment of Stiffening Rings to Shell
UCS-33 Formed Heads, Pressure on Convex Side
UCS-56 Requirements for Postweld Heat Treatment
UCS-57 Radiographic Examination
Low Temperature Operation
UCS-65 Scope
UCS-66 Materials Impact Test
UCS-67 Impact Tests of Welding Procedures
UCS-68 Design
Fabrication
UCS-75 General
UCS-79 Forming Pressure Parts
UCS-85 Heat Treatment of Test Specimens
Inspection and Tests
UCS-90 General
Marking and Reports
UCS-115 General