ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Part II-D, Materials
What is it? |
An authoritative source of property data relating to materials for power plants (nuclear and conventional) and the process industries (chemical, oil, and gas). |
What is in it? |
Mechanical and physical properties for 260 material standards, 470 materials. |
What is it used for? |
Facilitates selection of materials for high performance applications in industries including nuclear power, chemical processing, and oil and gas. Enables quantitative design and analysis. |
Where does it come from? |
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. |
How can I access it? |
Via the GRANTA MI materials information system as a standalone database that can be used alongside other aerospace & energy data. In the CES Selector software as a standalone database. Access within CAD or CAE software using MI:Materials Gateway or GRANTA MI export capabilities |
Description
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) maintains the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC), a leading source of standards information and specifications relating to materials for use in boilers, pressure vessel, and power plant components. Part II-D provides tables of design stress values, tensile and yield strength values, and tables and charts of material properties.
This information can facilitate selection of materials for high performance applications in industries including nuclear power, chemical processing, and oil and gas. It enables quantitative design and analysis. However, in its traditional handbook form, it is hard to share, impossible to search, and time-consuming to use. Online versions may be limited in their ease-of-use, integration with other data and design tools, and traceability back to the source document.
Granta offers a data module that provides the ASME BPV Code Part II-D information in electronic form. You can:
- Access materials data from the ASME BPV Code via the simple browser-based user interface of GRANTA MI, making it easy to search and view
- Access both PDF copies of the ASME service book pages and a structured 'live' database providing the property data for search, comparison, analysis, and export to CAE/CAD.
- Get property values as a function of temperature, allowing you to quickly extract the data they require for the operating environment they are studying.
- Link directly from items of data to the relevant PDF pages, providing full traceability back to the source document for all information.
Viewing ASME data in GRANTA MI - click for a larger image. Users can browse the data using the tree view (left) or use the GRANTA MI search and query features. Datasheets display text, numerical, and graph data—click on the graph to export the underlying data to Excel. Data is accompanied by links to PDF copies of the original ASME handbook pages for full traceability.
What data is included?
The latest version of the database contains 260 material standards, covering 470 different materials. Properties include:
- Maximum allowable stress
- Design stress intensity
- Tensile and yield strengths
- Thermal expansion and conductivity
- Poisson's ratio, and
- Typical physical properties such as density, melting range, and specific heat.
Advantages of the Granta module
Advantages of accessing this data via the GRANTA MI system include:
- Data can be rapidly searched, manipulated, and applied in analysis and design
- Property-based search - i.e., locate materials that have desired properties (or combinations of properties) rather than simply look up properties for a known material
- Materials comparison - compare materials quickly and easily, select the most suitable for your application
- Export data directly to computer aided engineering and design packages - including Abaqus, ANSYS Workbench, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Creo Elements/Pro, and the MatML format
- Ensure that all of your engineers see the same, up-to-date, version of the data
Read more about the advantages of accessing materials data via GRANTA MI >>>
Latest Update, 2011
The latest release includes 270 additional records (compared to the 2007 edition), including 90 more records for titanium alloys and 70 for nickel alloys.
Based on excellent interaction with customers, new developments also make data easier to access using the GRANTA MI web browser user interface. These include better visability of links and simpler interpolate of data.
How do I get this data?
If you would like to find out more about how you can gain cost-effective, quick, and efficient access to these and other leading reference sources, please contact us.