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BS 1640-4:1968

Superseded

Superseded

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Specification for steel butt-welding pipe fittings for the petroleum industry Wrought and cast austenitic chromium-nickel steel fittings. Metric units

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

21-03-1968

Superseded date

31-12-2008

£166.00
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Summarise this standard

Co-operating organizations
Foreword
Specification
1 General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Size and size identification
1.3 Pressure ratings
1.4 Materials
1.5 Manufacture
1.6 Heat treatment
1.7 Descaling
1.8 Repair of defects
2 Dimensions and tolerances
2.1 Dimensions
2.2 Tolerances
3 Workmanship, marking, inspection, testing and
     certificate
3.1 Workmanship and finish
3.2 Marking
3.3 Inspection
3.4 Test facilities
3.5 Prototype bursting tests
3.6 Non-destructive testing
3.7 Intercrystalline corrosion test
3.8 Hydrostatic testing
3.9 Certificate
Appendix
A Information to be supplied by the purchaser
Tables
1 Materials and material identification symbols
2 Tolerances
3 Outside diameter and nominal wall thickness of
     steel pipe
4 Dimensions of elbows and return bends
5 Dimensions of 90 deg long radius tangent elbows
6 Dimensions of equal tees
7 Dimensions of reducing tees
8 Dimensions of reducers (concentric and eccentric)
9 Dimensions of caps
10 Dimensions of lap-joint stub ends
Figures
1 Welding end for wall thicknesses from 3.2 mm to
     22.2 mm inclusive
2 Welding end for wall thicknesses greater than
     22.2 mm
3 Typical examples of off-square tolerance X checked
     against reference planes

Dimensions and tolerances, materials, methods of manufacture, pressure/temperature ratings, marking, inspection, tests for seamless and fabricated fittings: 45° long radius elbows, 90° long and short radius elbows, 90° long radius tangent elbows, long and short radius return bends, equal and reducing tees, concentric and eccentric reducers, caps and lap-joint stub ends, of sizes 19 mm to 609.5 mm. Welding-neck flanges not included.

Committee
ISE/110
DevelopmentNote
Inactive for the new design. (12/2007)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
20
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

Standards Relationship
UNE-EN IEC 61968-13:2021 Identical
UNE-EN 16068:2012 Identical
UNE-EN ISO 10993-7:2009 Identical

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