reverman
Mechanical
- Jul 22, 2008
- 142
about a year ago I had a thread asking about why the ASME committee in the 2009 B16.34 revision moved A351 CF3 and A351 CF3M to a different table that had much lower ratings than A351 CF8 and CF8M when aside from the carbon content the materials were identical.
Well today a got an supplement from the committee and the have moved CF3 back to Table 2.1 and CF3M to table 2.2 so now CF8 and CF3 have the same pressure temperature ratings and CF8M and CF3M also have the same ratings.
Which is great news. However in order to still create some confusion the committee in the same supplement completely deleted material A351 CF8C (cast grade of 347 stainless) from B16.34 . There is no explanation on why this material was removed it's been in the standard for years ( I have revisions back to at least 1988 and it was in every revision). I wrote back and hopefully I get a reason for that.
Well today a got an supplement from the committee and the have moved CF3 back to Table 2.1 and CF3M to table 2.2 so now CF8 and CF3 have the same pressure temperature ratings and CF8M and CF3M also have the same ratings.
Which is great news. However in order to still create some confusion the committee in the same supplement completely deleted material A351 CF8C (cast grade of 347 stainless) from B16.34 . There is no explanation on why this material was removed it's been in the standard for years ( I have revisions back to at least 1988 and it was in every revision). I wrote back and hopefully I get a reason for that.