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ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Part II-D, Materials

A powerful tool allowing you to access, search, and apply an authoritative source of property data relating to materials for power plants (nuclear and conventional) and the process industries (chemical, oil, and gas).

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 BPVC Part II-D information in electronic form. It can be accessed via the simple browser-based user interface of GRANTA MI, making it easy to search and view. Users can access both PDF copies of the ASME service book pages and a structured 'live' database providing the property data. The database includes property values as a function of temperature, allowing users to quickly extract the data they require for the operating environment they are studying. This property data is linked 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

The database contains 250 material standards, covering 450 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, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and the MatML format
  
  
• Ensure that all of your engineers see the same, up-to-date, version of the data

Latest update: with GRANTA MI 2.0 ASME BPVC has been extended to provide all of the data (including graphs) from Part II-D. New tools were added to enable easy export to CAE.

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