Thanks to everyone for your well-considered responses.
CodeJackal...You cite UG-16(d) but base your position (only) on "...it shall be increased...". However, the passage goes-on to reveal it's intent with "...to provide (for) manufacturing undertolerance..." If, defacto, there is no...
roca - Your's is the reasonable, "common sense" answer...But most of those that I've consulted with think otherwise. Do you (or anybody) know of a particular passage in the Code or a favorable "Code Case"?
I have a section of (seamless) pipe which I want to use as a nozzle in a Div. I, Code vessel.
May I use its actual, as-measured wall thickness in my calculations?
My Code calculation software says that my pipe's schedule is "inadequate" because its wall is "too thin" when the nominal thickness...
