Piping Codes and Standards

US American (ASTM) vs. British (BSi) piping standards - specifications, grades and material descriptions.

ANSI provides a forum for development of American national standards.

Internal and external diameters, areas, weights, volumes and number of threads for ANSI schedule 40 steel pipes.

Internal and external diameters, areas, weights, volumes and number of threads for schedule 80 steel pipes.

ASME is one of the leading organizations in the world developing codes and standards.

The International Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code safety rules governing design, fabrication, and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels, and nuclear power plant components during construction.

The ASME Performance Test Codes provide standard directions and rules for conducting and reporting tests.

A survey of one of the most important pressure pipe codes - ASME B31, earlier known as ANSI B31.

The working pressure and temperature limits of ASME Code B31.9 - Building Services Piping.

The ASME B16 standards covers pipes and fittings in cast iron , cast bronze, wrought copper and steel.

Pipe sizes, inside and outside diameters, wall thickness, schedules, weight and weight of pipe filled with water - Metric Units.

Cross reference for fittings, flanges, unions and cast and foged valves.

Dimensions of CTS - Copper Tube Sized CPVC (Chlorinated Poly Vinyl Chloride) tubes.

ASTM International - American Society for Testing and Materials - is a scientific and technical organization that develops and publishes voluntary standards on the characteristics of material, products, systems and services.

The ASTM standards covers various types of steel pipes, tubes and fittings for high-temperature services, ordinary use and special applications such as fire protection use

An overview of the ASTM Volume 01.01 standard.

British standards and specifications for pipe, tube and fittings.

Steel is considered to be carbon steel when no minimum content is specified or required for chromium, cobalt, columbium (niobium), molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium or zirconium.

Comparing standards of carbon steel pipes from USA, Germany, UK and Sweden.

The four basic types of cast iron - white iron, gray iron, ductile iron and malleable iron.

Deutsches Institut für Normung - DIN - pipe, tube and fittings standards and specifications.

ANSI is a private, not-for-profit, membership organization that acts not as a standards developer, but as a standards coordinating and approval body.

Dimensions and weights of steel tubes according BS EN 10255.

Commonly used standards for fiberglass pipes and their applications.

API and ASME/ANSI flanges - comparing dimensions and pressure ratings.

Identifying colors used for fluid piping systems.

Commonly used HVAC abbreviations.

International Organization for Standardization - ISO - pipe, tube and fittings standards and specifications.

Japanese industrial flanges, bolts, nuts, and gaskets standards and specifications from JAS - the Japanese Standards Association.

Japanese Standards Association - JSA.

Japanese industrial pipe, tube and fittings standards and specifications from the Japanese Standards Association - JAS.

The corrosion engineering and science community.

Non-destructive construction testing.

Color codes, field and legend.

Tags and label colors used for mechanical, plumbing and piping systems.

Piping codes and standards.

Pressure numbers (PN) vs. flange class designations.

Comparing international stainless steel standards from America (US), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, England (UK) and the European Union.

Stainless steels are commonly grouped into martensitic stainless steels, ferritic stainless steels, austenitic stainless steels, duplex (ferritic-austenitic) stainless steels, and precipitation-hardening stainless steels.

American - US - vs. European - German, British (UK) and Swedish - stainless steel pipe standards.

World wide steel pipe standardization organizations.

Pressure classes, schedules and weights of pipes for threaded & socket welded fittings.