Reg.

16
MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION STEEL PLATES, RIVETS, SECTION AND BARS IN CARBON STEEL Tensile tests

(a)

The tensile strength of different grades of material shall be within the limits specified in regulation 9 (d).

(b) The upper yield point at room temperature shall be not less than 50% of the specified minimum tensile strength at room temperature. (c) The breaking elongation in percentage shall be not less than ( N-Rm)/C

Where Rm = Tensile strength at room temperature in kgf/mm 2 N = a quality index of 100 for plate thickness upto 50 mm or 95 for plate thickness over 50mm. C = 2.2 for only gauge lengths of L=5 do or L=5.65/ A Where L = gauge length A = original cross section of the rectangular test piece.

d = original diameter of the round test piece.

NOTE: C= 1.9 for gauge lengths of 4 A for test piece of Appendix-B. (d) The minimum values of the stress at proof limit 0.2% at elevated temperature (Et) may be calculated by multiplying the minimum specified tensile strength at room temperature (R20) by the value of the ratio (Et/R20) Minimum values for the ratio of the stress at proof limit 0.2% at elevated temperature (Et) to the minimum specified tensile strength at room temperature (R20) of carbon steel boiler plates.

Temperature Et/R20 Temperature Et/R20

250C 0.40 400C 0.31

*275C 0.38 425C 0.30

300C 0.36

325C 0.34

350C 0.33

375C 0.32

*For temperatures lower than 300C any test required for acceptance purposes (in the absence of records of previous tests at these temperatures) shall be made at 300C, in which case the proof stress shall be not less than value obtained by calculation from the specified minimum tensile strength at room temperature and the above proof-ratio of 0.36 for 300C.

Reg. 17
MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION STEEL PLATES, RIVETS, SECTION AND BARS IN CARBON STEEL Number of Tensile Tests

(a) Plates For shell plates, butt straps and plates, gusset plates, end plates, furnace plates and flanging plates one tensile test piece shall be cut from each plate as rolled. (b) Angle, tee, rivet, and stay bars.- One tensile test shall be made from each 15 or part of 15 bars rolled of each section or diameter from the same charge, but not less than two tensile tests shall be made unless the total number of bars rolled from the same charge is 8 or less than 8 and the bars of the same section or diameter, in which case one tensile test shall suffice. For round bars of 1 inches diameter and under, the numbers 50 and 20 shall be substituted for 15 and 8 respectively for determining the number of tests required.

Reg. 22
MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION STEEL PLATES, RIVETS, SECTION AND BARS IN CARBON STEEL Additional tests before rejection

Should the test pieces first selected by the Inspector or Inspecting Officer not fulfil the test requirements, two further tests of the same kind may be made, but should either of these fail, the plates or bars from which test pieces were cut shall be rejected. In all such cases further tests shall be made before any material from the same charge can be accepted. If the unsatisfactory result of a test is obviously due to technical conditions of the testing method or to a closely limited defects of a test piece, then the failure can be left out of consideration in the decision on the fulfilment of the requirement and another test piece may be substituted. If the unsatisfactory result of test is due to an unfavourable heat treatment the plate and the test strip may be heat treated again. Following this, the entire test shall be repeated.