SPECIFICATION FOR PRESSURE VESSEL PLATES, ALLOY STEEL, CHROMIUM-MOLYBDENUM

SA-387 /SA-387M
(Identical with ASTM Specication A 387 /A 387M-921.)

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Scope

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Referenced Documents

1.1 This specication covers chromium-molybdenum alloy steel plates intended primarily for welded boilers and pressure vessels designed for elevated temperature service. 1.2 Plates are available under this specication in several grades having different alloy contents as follows:
Nominal Chromium Content, % 0.50 1.00 1.25 2.25 3.00 5.00 9.00 9.00 Nominal Molybdenum Content, % 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.00 1.00 0.50 1.00 1.00

Grade 2 12 11 22, 22L 21, 21L 5 9 91

2.1 ASTM Standards: A 20 /A 20M Specication for General Requirements for Steel Plates for Pressure Vessels A 435 /A 435M Specication for Straight-Beam Ultrasonic Examination of Steel Plates A 577 /A 577M Specication for Ultrasonic Angle-Beam Examination of Steel Plates A 578 /A 578M Specication for Straight-Beam Ultrasonic Examination of Plain and Clad Steel Plates for Special Applications

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General Requirements and Ordering Information

1.3 Each grade except Grades 21L, 22L, and 91 is available in two classes of tensile strength levels as dened in Tensile Requirements tables, depending on heat treatment. In the annealed condition all grades are available only as Class 1. Grades 21L and 22L are available only as Class 1. Grade 91 is available only as Class 2. 1.4 The maximum thickness of plates is limited only by the capacity of the composition to meet the specied mechanical property requirements. 1.5 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents. Therefore, each system must be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with this specication.
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3.1 Material supplied to this material specication shall conform to Specication A 20 /A 20M. These requirements outline the testing and retesting methods and procedures, permissible variations in dimensions and weight, quality and repair of defects, marking, loading, etc. 3.2 Specication A 20 /A 20M also establishes the rules for the ordering information that should be complied with when purchasing material to this specication. 3.3 In addition to the basic requirements of this specication, certain supplementary requirements are available when additional control, testing, or examination is required to meet end use requirements. These include: 3.3.1 Vacuum treatment, 3.3.2 Additional or special tension testing, 3.3.3 Impact testing, and 3.3.4 Nondestructive examination.

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3.4 The purchaser is referred to the listed supplementary requirements in this specication and to the detailed requirements in Specication A 20 /A 20M. If the requirements of this specication are in conict with the requirements of Specication A 20 /A 20M, the requirements of this specication shall prevail.

to 5.1 and to Tables 1 or 2, as applicable, shall be the responsibility of the purchaser. 6. Chemical Requirements

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Manufacture 4.1 Steelmaking Practice The steel shall be killed.

6.1 The steel shall conform to the requirements as to chemical composition shown in Table 1 unless otherwise modied in accordance with Supplementary Requirement S17, Vacuum Carbon-Deoxidized Steel, in Specication A 20 /A 20M for grades other than Grade 11. 7. Metallurgical Structure

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Heat Treatment

5.1 Except for Grade 91, all plates shall be thermally treated either by annealing, normalizing-and-tempering, or, when permitted by the purchaser, accelerated cooling from the austenitizing temperature by air blasting or liquid quenching, followed by tempering. Minimum tempering temperatures shall be as follows:
Grade 2, 12, and 11 22, 22L, 21, 21L, and 9 5 Temperature, F [C] 1150 [620] 1250 [675] 1300 [705]

7.1 Austenitic Grain Size Grade 2 material shall have a coarse austenitic grain size. 8. Mechanical Requirements 8.1 Tension Test Requirements: 8.1.1 The material as represented by the tension test specimens shall conform to the applicable requirements of Table 2 or Table 3, as specied on the order. 8.1.2 Adjustment of the percentage elongation requirements is permitted in accordance with Specication A 20 /A 20M for plates up to 34 in. [20 mm] inclusive, in thickness when an 8 in. [200 mm] gage length is used. 9. Marking

5.1.1 Grade 91 plates shall be normalized at 1900 to 2000F [1040 to 1095C] and shall be tempered at not less than 1350F [730C]. 5.2 Grade 5, 9, 21, 21L, 22, 22L, and 91 plates ordered without the heat treatment required by 5.1 shall be furnished in either the stress-relieved or the annealed condition. 5.3 For plates ordered without the heat treatment required by 5.1, heat treatment of the plates to conform

9.1 In addition to the marking required in Specication A 20 /A 20M, each plate shall be legibly stamped or stenciled, depending upon the ordered thickness, with the letter A for annealed, N for normalized and tempered, and Q for accelerated cooled and tempered, as applicable.

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TABLE 1 CHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS

Composition, % Element Carbon Heat analysis Product analysis Manganese: Heat analysis Product analysis Phosphorus, max: Heat analysis Product analysis Sulfur, max: Heat analysis Product analysis Silicon: Heat analysis Product analysis Chromium: Heat analysis Product analysis Molybdenum: Heat analysis Product analysis Nickel, max: Heat analysis Product analysis Vanadium: Heat analysis Product analysis Columbium: Heat analysis Product analysis Nitrogen: Heat analysis Product analysis Aluminum, max: Heat analysis Product analysis Grade 2 0.050.21 0.040.21 Grade 12 0.050.17 0.040.17 Grade 11 0.050.17 0.040.17 Grade 22 0.050.15 [Note (1)] 0.040.15 [Note (1)] 0.300.60 0.250.66 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.50 max 0.50 max 2.002.50 1.882.62 0.901.10 0.851.15 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Grade 22L 0.10 max 0.12 max Grade 21 0.050.15 [Note (1)] 0.040.15 [Note (1)] 0.300.60 0.250.66 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.50 max 0.50 max 2.753.25 2.633.37 0.901.10 0.851.15 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Grade 21L 0.10 max 0.12 max Grade 5 0.15 max 0.15 max Grade 9 0.15 max 0.15 max Grade 91 0.080.12 0.060.15

0.550.80 0.500.88 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.150.40 0.130.45 0.500.80 0.460.85 0.450.60 0.400.65 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.400.65 0.350.73 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.150.40 0.130.45 0.801.15 0.741.21 0.450.60 0.400.65 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.400.65 0.350.73 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.500.80 0.440.86 1.001.50 0.941.56 0.450.65 0.400.70 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.300.60 0.250.66 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.50 max 0.50 max 2.002.50 1.882.62 0.901.10 0.851.15 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.300.60 0.250.66 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.035 0.50 max 0.50 max 2.753.25 2.633.37 0.901.10 0.851.15 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.300.60 0.250.66 0.035 0.035 0.030 0.030 0.50 max 0.55 max 4.006.00 3.906.10 0.450.65 0.400.70 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.300.60 0.250.66 0.030 0.030 0.030 0.030 1.00 max 1.05 max 8.0010.00 7.9010.10 0.901.10 0.851.15 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

0.300.60 0.250.66 0.020 0.025 0.010 0.012 0.200.50 0.180.56 8.009.50 7.909.60 0.851.05 0.801.10 0.40 0.43 0.180.25 0.160.27 0.060.10 0.050.11 0.0300.070 0.0250.080 0.04 0.05

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NOTE: (1) The carbon content for plates over 5 in. [125 mm] in thickness is 0.17 max on product analysis.

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TABLE 2 TENSILE REQUIREMENTS FOR CLASS 1 PLATES

Grades 2 and 12 Tensile strength, ksi [MPa] Yield strength, min, ksi [MPa] Elongation in 8 in. [200 mm], min, % [Note (1)] Elongation in 2 in. [50 mm], min, % [Note (1)] Reduction of area, min, % 55 to 80 [380 to 550] 33 18 22 ... Grade 11 60 to 85 [415 to 585] 35 19 22 ... Grades 22, 21, 5, 9, 21L, 22L 60 to 85 [415 to 585] 30 ... 18 45 [Note (2)] 40 [Note (3)]

NOTES: (1) See Specication A 20/A 20M, elongation adjustments. (2) Measured on round test specimens. (3) Measured on at specimen.

TABLE 3 TENSILE REQUIREMENTS FOR CLASS 2 PLATES [NOTE (1)]

Grade 2 Tensile strength, ksi [MPa] Grade 11 Grade 12 Grades 22, 21, 5, 9 Grade 91 85 to 110 [585 to 760] 60 [415] ... 18 ...

70 to 90 75 to 100 [485 to 620] [515 to 690] Yield strength, min, ksi [MPa] (0.2 % offset) 45 [310] 45 [310] Elongation in 8 in. [200 mm], min, % [Note (2)] 18 18 Elongation in 2 in. [50 mm], min, % [Note (2)] 22 22 Reduction of area, min, % ... ... NOTES: (1) Not applicable to annealed material. (2) See Specication A 20/A 20M, elongation adjustments. (3) Measured on round test specimens. (4) Measured on at specimen.

65 to 85 75 to 100 [450 to 585] [515 to 690] 40 [275] 45 [310] 19 ... 22 18 ... 45 [Note (3)] 40 [Note (4)]

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SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS
Supplementary requirements shall not apply unless specied in the order. A list of standardized supplementary requirements for use at the option of the purchaser is included in Specication A 20 /A 20M. Several of those considered suitable for use with this specication are listed below by title. Other tests may be performed by agreement between the supplier and the purchaser.

S1. S2 S3.

Vacuum Treatment, Product Analysis, Simulated Post-Weld Heat Treatment of Mechanical Test Coupons,

S4.1 Additional Tension Test, S5. S6. S7. S8. S9. Charpy V-Notch Impact Test, Drop Weight Test, High-Temperature Tension Test, Ultrasonic Examination in accordance with Specication A 435 /A 435M, Magnetic Particle Examination,

S11. Ultrasonic Examination in accordance with Specication A 577 /A 577M, S12. Ultrasonic Examination in accordance with Specication A 578 /A 578M, S14. Bend Test, and S17. Vacuum Carbon-Deoxidized Steel.

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ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS

In addition, the following supplementary requirements are suitable for this application.

S60. Restricted Carbon S60.1 The maximum carbon content of Grade 5 shall be 0.10%.

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