Section 17 Seamless Red-brass Piping.......................................... 259
Section 18 Seamless Copper Tube (1998)......................................262
Section 19 Condenser and Heat Exchanger Tube (1998)............... 265
Section 20 Copper-Nickel Tube and Pipe (1998)............................ 272
Section 21 Monel Pipe and Tube (1999)......................................... 279
CHAPTER 4 Welding and Fabrication................................................................. 286
Section 1 Hull Construction........................................................... 294
Section 2 Boilers, Unfired Pressure Vessels, Piping and
Engineering Structures*.................................................302
Section 3 Weld Tests..................................................................... 327
Section 4 Piping (2002)................................................................. 351
Section 5 Aluminum Welding in Hull Construction (2018)............. 359
CHAPTER 5 Materials for Hull Construction – Aluminum.................................391
Section 1 General.......................................................................... 395
Section 2 Standard Test Methods..................................................399
Section 3 Chemical Composition...................................................400
Section 4 Heat Treatment.............................................................. 402
Section 5 Tensile Properties.......................................................... 403
Section 6 Corrosion Testing...........................................................415
Section 7 Sheet, Plate and Rolled Products..................................417
Section 8 Extrusions...................................................................... 419
Section 9 Forgings.........................................................................422
Section 10 Castings.........................................................................424
Section 11 Rivets.............................................................................426
Appendix 1 Aluminum/Steel Bi-material Transition Joints (2015)..... 427
Appendix 2 Dissimilar Materials (2015)............................................ 434
Appendix 3 List of Destructive and Nondestructive Tests
Required for Materials and Responsibility for
Verifying (2017)..............................................................435
CHAPTER 6 Materials for Hull Construction – Fiber Reinforced Plastics
(FRP)................................................................................................. 437
Section 1 General.......................................................................... 442
Section 2 Fabrication..................................................................... 449
Section 3 Building Process Description......................................... 451
Section 4 Quality Control............................................................... 461
Section 5 Testing........................................................................... 468
Section 6 Repair............................................................................ 470
APPENDIX 1 Tests Required for Materials, and Responsibility for Verifying...484
Section 1 List of Destructive and Nondestructive Tests
Required for Materials and Responsibility for Verifying. 485
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