ASME/ASTM Material Test Reports for Steels
Online Course with e-Instructor Support
Course Description
This 2-day course will cover the basics of reviewing material test reports for steels to improve your ability to correctly:
- read, write, and review steel specifications when ordering or specifying steels,
- based on ASME/ASTM Steel Standards,
- including examples of others steel standards, e.g., API, NACE/AMPP, AISI, etc.
These goals are achieved by studying Connecting-the-Standards© Examples covering ASME/ASTM product specifications, general requirements specifications, test methods, practices, and terminology standards.
Learning Outcomes [+]
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Correctly identify steels as being produced to the steel specification and grade ordered to determine conformance and nonconformance by reviewing the material test report.
- Recognize material test reports that contain multiple marking of steel products from different standards bodies, e.g., ASTM, ASME, API, NACE/AMPP, AISI, SAE, others.
- Identify the measured and controlled requirements ASME/ASTM steel standards ordered and how they are addressed in the material test report.
- Identify the unmeasured and controlled requirements ASME/ASTM steel standards ordered and how they are addressed in the material test report.
- Navigate both the ASME/ASTM product specification and its related general specification to ensure the material test report includes the reporting requirements of both.
- Distinguish between multiple marked steel grades within the same ASME/ASTM specification and others, including both steels and stainless steels.
- Distinguish how material test report requirements may vary between ASME/ASTM steel standards with varying wrought product forms (e.g., plate/sheet/strip, pipe, shapes, forgings, etc.).
- Explain the acceptability and prohibitions of multiple marking between different specifications and different grades.
- Explain how grade substitution is not be permitted when material test reports include multiple marked steel products.
- Describe common ASME/ASTM standard marking practices on steel products.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for all personnel involved with steels and particularly ASME/ASTM Steel Standards, such as, engineers, inspectors, QA/QC coordinators, NDE examiners, purchasers, inventory control personnel, tradespeople, manufacturing, fabricating and repair companies, engineering procurement companies, construction companies, and others working in most industries that use steel, including: civil construction (buildings, bridges), pressure equipment, ship building, water treatment, pipelines, oil and gas industries (oilfield, upgraders, refineries, etc.), chemical plants, petroleum refining, petrochemical plants, power plants, pulp and paper plants, fertilizer plants, and many others.
Course Outline [+]
- What is multiple marking of steel products and why it is so important?
- What is the difference between multiple marking and dual marking of steel products?
- How are steel products commonly multiple marked in material test reports?
- How shall steel products be multiple marked in material test reports in accordance with ASME/ASTM standards and others?
- What is the difference between “measured and controlled” and “unmeasured and controlled” requirements ASME/ASTM steel standards and how do they affect the review of material test reports?
- Where are the marking and material test reporting requirements located in ASME/ASTM product specifications and their related general specification?
- How are multiple marked steel grades distinguished within the same ASME/ASTM specification and are they in conformance with the order?
- Why do material test report requirements vary between wrought product forms as specified in the ordered ASME/ASTM steel standards (e.g., plate/sheet/strip, pipe, shapes, forgings, etc.)?
- What the acceptability and prohibition criteria of multiple marking between different specifications and different grades?
- Why is grade substitution not be permitted when material test reports include multiple marked steel products?
- What are the common ASME/ASTM standard marking practices on steel products?
- What are the common steps to correctly identify steels as being produced to the ordered steel specification and grade to determine conformance and nonconformance by reviewing the material test report?
Learning Assessment
Learning will be self-assessed through participation in discussions throughout the training course.
