The BPVC was created in response to public outcry after several serious explosions in the state of. A fire-tube boiler exploded at the in, on March 20, 1905, which resulted in the deaths of 58 people and injured 150. Then on December 6, 1906, a boiler in the factory of the P.J. Harney Shoe Company exploded in. As a result, the state of Massachusetts enacted the first legal code based on ASME's rules for the construction of steam boilers in 1907.ASME convened the Board of Boiler Rules before it became the ASME Boiler Code Committee which was formed in 1911.
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This committee put in the form work for the first edition of the ASME Boiler Code - Rules for the Construction of Stationary Boilers and for the Allowable Working Pressures, which was issued in 1914 and published in 1915.The first edition of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, known as the 1914 edition, was a single 114-page volume. It developed over time into the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel code, which today has over 92,000 copies in use, in over 100 countries around the world. As of March 2011 the document consisted of 16,000 pages in 28 volumes.After the first edition of the Code, the verifications required by the Code were performed by independent inspectors, which resulted in a wide range of interpretations. Hence in February 1919, the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors was formed. The section of the ASME BPVC consists of 4 parts.Part A - Ferrous Material SpecificationsThis Part is a supplementary book referenced by other sections of the Code. It provides material specifications for ferrous materials which are suitable for use in the construction of pressure vessels.The specifications contained in this Part specify the mechanical properties, heat treatment, heat and product chemical composition and analysis, test specimens, and methodologies of testing.
The designation of the specifications start with 'SA' and a number which is taken from the ASTM 'A' specifications.Part B - Nonferrous Material SpecificationsThis Part is a supplementary book referenced by other sections of the Code. It provides material specifications for nonferrous materials which are suitable for use in the construction of pressure vessels.The specifications contained in this Part specify the mechanical properties, heat treatment, heat and product chemical composition and analysis, test specimens, and methodologies of testing.
The designation of the specifications start with 'SB' and a number which is taken from the ASTM 'B' specifications.Part C - Specifications for Welding Rods, Electrodes, and Filler MetalsThis Part is a supplementary book referenced by other sections of the Code. It provides mechanical properties, heat treatment, heat and product chemical composition and analysis, test specimens, and methodologies of testing for welding rods, filler metals and electrodes used in the construction of pressure vessels.The specifications contained in this Part are designated with 'SFA' and a number which is taken from the (AWS) specifications.Part D - Properties (Customary/Metric)This Part is a supplementary book referenced by other sections of the Code. It provides tables for the design stress values, tensile and yield stress values as well as tables for material properties (Modulus of Elasticity, Coefficient of heat transfer et al.). Section III of the ASME Code Address the rules for construction of nuclear facility components and supports.
The components and supports covered by section III are intended to be installed in a nuclear power system that serves the purpose of producing and controlling the output of thermal energy from nuclear fuel and those associated systems essential to safety of nuclear power system. Section III provides requirements for new construction of nuclear power system considering mechanical and thermal stresses due to cyclic operation. The section of the ASME BPVC consists of 3 divisions. ASME Section VIII Division 1division covers the mandatory requirements, specific prohibitions and nonmandatory guidance for materials, design, fabrication, inspection and testing, markings and reports, overpressure protection and certification of pressure vessels having an internal or external pressure which exceeds 15 psi (100 kPa).pressure vessel can be either fired or unfired.
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The pressure may be from external sources, or by the application of heating from an indirect or direct source, or any combination thereof.The Division is not numbered in the traditional method (Part 1, Part 2 etc.) but is structured with Subsections and Parts which consist of letters followed by a number. Antaki, George A. Marcel Dekker Inc. February 14, 2010, at the. Balmer, Robert T (2010). Modern Engineering Thermodynamics.
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