Material Test Reports (MTRs) & Ordering Steel by Using ASME/ASTM Standards

Attendees who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Review a material test report (MTR) for compliance to the purchase order and the referenced ASTM steel specifications.
2. Apply the ordering requirements and any supplementary requirements from the referenced ASTM steel specification and apply any additional purchaser requirements.
3. Analyze the material test report (MTR) to confirm that steelmaking practices, heat treatment, and testing required by the ASTM steel specification is correctly reported in the material test report (MTR).
4. Interpret the manufacturer versus purchaser requirements when ordering steel products to a referenced ASTM steel specification.
   
5. Analyze and interpret product marking, dual-marking, and multiple marking when reviewing the material test report (MTR) for steel products ordered to ASTM steel specifications and ASME Codes.
   

QA and QC personnel, engineers, inspectors, maintenance personnel, NDE technicians, experienced tradespeople, who work for owner-user companies, EPCs, inspection companies, fabricators, maintenance service and repair companies, and inspection companies from refineries, upgrader plants, oil sands plants, SAGD plants, petrochemical plants, power plants, gas/oil pipeline companies, pulp mills, repair and maintenance shops, equipment manufacturers, third party inspection and NDE companies, and all supporting industries.

• Over 40 Connecting-the-Codes Examples,
• step-by-step instructions showing:
  • "what's" is in the standard,
  • "where" it is in the standard,
  • "how" to practice the standard requirements,
  • "why" requirements are in the standard to improve interpretation.
• Workshops for reviewing test reports for common steel grades (see Course Outline).
• Practice questions to measure knowledge gained.

Codes and Standards examples will be taken from the following sources throughout this course:

ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

 

How do you order steel?

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities, required information, additional and supplementary requirements
• Ordering Information Requirements
• Responsibilities
• Supplementary Requirements
• Waiving requirements, lessening requirements
• ASTM and ASME examples will be discussed from
  • A106 & ASME II-A SA-106 Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service
  • A484 & ASME II-A SA-484 General Requirements for Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings
  • A788 & ASME II-A SA-788 Steel Forgings, General Requirements

Resolving Conflict between Product and General Specifications

• Conflicting requirements and resolving conflicting requirements with examples from
  • ASTM A20 & ASME II-A SA-20 General Requirements for Steel Plates for Pressure Vessel
  • ASTM A597 Cast Tool Steel

Supplementary Requirements

• Invoking supplementary requirements with examples from
  • ASTM A20 & ASME II-A SA-20 General Requirements for Steel Plates for Pressure Vessel
  • ASTM A105 Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications
  • ASTM A350/ASME II-A SA-350 Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for Piping Components
  • ASTM A866 Medium Carbon Anti-Friction Bearing Steel  

Additional Customer Requirements

Hierarchy of Order Documents

How are the purchase order requirements met?

Steelmaking Practices: Rimmed, Capped, Killed, and Semi-killed Steels

• ASTM A941 Terminology Relating to Steel, Stainless Steel, Related Alloys, and Ferroalloys
• ASTM A6 General Requirements for Rolled Structural Steel Bars, Plates, Shapes, and Sheet Piling
• ASTM A516 Pressure Vessel Plates, Carbon Steel, for Moderate- and Lower-Temperature Service
• ASTM A788 Steel Forgings, General Requirements
• ASTM A595 Steel Tubes, Low-Carbon or High-Strength Low-Alloy, Tapered for Structural Use

Heat Treatment

• ASTM A333 Seamless and Welded Steel Pipe for Low-Temperature Service and Other Applications with Required Notch Toughness
• ASTM A181 Carbon Steel Forgings, for General-Purpose Piping
• ASTM A182 Forged or Rolled Alloy and Stainless Steel Pipe Flanges, Forged Fittings, and Valves and Parts for High-Temperature Service

• Mechanical Properties and Heat Treatment

  • ASTM A29 General Requirements for Steel Bars, Carbon and Alloy, Hot-Wrought

Manufacturer Tests

Mechanical Properties

• tension tests, impact tests, hardness tests with examples from
  • ASTM A516 Pressure Vessel Plates, Carbon Steel, for Moderate- and Lower-Temperature Service
  • ASME II-A SA-105 Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications
  • ASTM A350 Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for Piping Components
  • ASTM A213 Seamless Ferritic and Austenitic Alloy-Steel Boiler, Superheater, and Heat-Exchanger Tubes
  • ASTM A333 Seamless and Welded Steel Pipe for Low-Temperature Service and Other Applications with Required Notch Toughness
  • ASME II-A SA-240 Chromium and Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip for Pressure Vessels and for General Applications
  • ASTM A675 Steel Bars, Carbon, Hot-Wrought, Special Quality, Mechanical Properties
  • ASTM A266 Carbon Steel Forgings for Pressure Vessel Components
  • ASTM A488 Steel Castings, Welding, Qualifications of Procedures and Personnel

Pressure Tests

• specifying hydrostatic testing with examples from
  • ASTM A106 & ASME II-A  SA-106 Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service
• air-under-water testing with examples from
  • ASTM A1012 Seamless and Welded Ferritic, Austenitic and Duplex Alloy Steel Condenser and Heat Exchanger Tubes With Integral Fins

  Non-destructive Test Requirements

• specifying NDE with examples from
  • ASTM A587 Electric-Resistance-Welded Low-Carbon Steel Pipe for the Chemical Industry
  • ASME II-A SA-234 Piping Fittings of Wrought Carbon Steel and Alloy Steel for Moderate and High Temperature Service

  Other Tests

• specifying other tests with examples from
  • ASTM A131 Structural Steel for Ships
  • ASTM A738 Pressure Vessel Plates, Heat-Treated, Carbon-Manganese-Silicon Steel, for Moderate and Lower Temperature Service

Manufacturer Heat Treatment

How to Review a Material Test Report (MTR)

Test Reports

• what to look for and the language used on typical steel test reports with examples from
  • ASTM A106 & ASME II-A SA-106 Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service
  • ASTM A530 & ASME II-A SA-530 General Requirements for Specialized Carbon and Alloy Steel Pipe

Other names for QC Documents- COC, mill test cert, etc.

• including identifying the difference between documents with examples from
  • ASTM A941 & ASME II-A SA-941 Standard Terminology Relating to Steel, Stainless Steel, Related Alloys, and Ferroalloys

Acceptance, Retesting, Rejection, and Rehearing

• Retesting, Rejection and Rehearing will be discussed with reference to how each is handled in ASTM and ASME standards and codes with examples from

Retesting

• • ASTM A106 Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service
  • ASTM A350/ASME II-A SA-350 Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for Piping Components

Rejection and Rehearing

• • ASTM A105 Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications
  • ASTM A350 Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for Piping Components
  • ASTM A961 & ASME II-A SA-961 Common Requirements for Steel Flanges, Forged Fittings, Valves, and Parts for Piping Applications

Product Marking and Multiple Marking- What to look for.

• Product marking discussions will include rules in ASTM and ASME standards and codes with examples from
  • ASTM A961 & ASME II-A SA-961 Common Requirements for Steel Flanges, Forged Fittings, Valves, and Parts for Piping Applications

Multiple Marking of Materials

ASME Multiple Marking Rules

• Mandatory Appendix III Guidelines on Multiple Marking of Materials
• acceptability of and prohibition on multiple marking
• grade substitution
• marking selection
• Relationship between general specifications and product specifications with examples from
  • ASME II-A SA-480 General Requirements for Flat-Rolled Stainless and Heat-Resisting Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip
    • ASME II-A SA-240 Chromium and Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip for Pressure Vessels and for General Applications
    • ASME II-A SA-1016 General Requirements for Ferritic Alloy Steel, Austenitic Alloy Steel, and Stainless Steel Tubes
    • ASTM A213 Seamless Ferritic and Austenitic Alloy-Steel Boiler, Superheater, and Heat-Exchanger Tubes
    • ASTM A269 Seamless and Welded Austenitic Stainless Steel Tubing for General Service
  • ASME II-A SA-999 General Requirements for Alloy and Stainless Steel Pipe
    • ASTM A312 Seamless, Welded, and Heavily Cold Worked Austenitic Stainless Steel Pipes
    • ASTM A333 Seamless and Welded Steel Pipe for Low-Temperature Service and Other Applications with Required
    • ASTM A335 Seamless Ferritic Alloy-Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service

  ASTM Multiple Marking Rules

• Relationship between general specifications and product specifications with examples from
  • ASTM A961 Common Requirements for Steel Flanges, Forged Fittings, Valves, and Parts for Piping Applications
  • ASTM A105 Carbon Steel Forgings for Piping Applications
  • ASTM A182 Forged or Rolled Alloy and Stainless Steel Pipe Flanges, Forged Fittings, and Valves and Parts for High-Temperature Service
  • ASTM A350 Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Forgings, Requiring Notch Toughness Testing for Piping Components

Material Test Report (MTR) Workshops

• Discuss and understand the relationship between test reports/ material test reports (MTR) and the standards.
• Workshops will teach“how-to review an MTR” for quality control and standards compliance with examples from
  • ASTM A105 ASME B16.5 Flanges
  • ASTM A106 Seamless Pipe
  • ASTM A333 – ASME II-A SA-333 Gr. 6 Seamless Pipe- CSA Z245-1 Grade 290

There are no requirements.