PART HF

REQUIREMENTS FOR BOILERS

CONSTRUCTED OF WROUGHT MATERIALS
A Detailed Contents Precedes Each Subpart

Article 1 General
HF-100 Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Article 2 Material Requirements

HF-200 General Material Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HF-201 Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HF-202 Rods, Bars, and Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HF-203 Prefabricated or Preformed Pressure Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HF-204 Pipe and Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HF-205 Material Not Fully Identified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
HF-206 Recertification of Material Produced to a Specification Not Permitted by
This Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
HF-210 Maintaining Material Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Article 3 Design Stresses and Minimum Thicknesses

HF-300 Maximum Allowable Stress Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
HF-301 Minimum Thicknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
HF-302 Basis for Establishing Stress Values in Tables HF-300.1 and HF-300.2 . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Tables
HF-300.1 Maximum Allowable Stress Values for Ferrous Materials, ksi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
HF-300.2 Maximum Allowable Stress Values for Nonferrous Materials, ksi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
HF-301.1 Minimum Allowable Thickness of Ferrous Shell Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
HF-301.2 Minimum Allowable Thickness of Nonferrous Shell Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Subpart HW Requirements for Boilers Fabricated by Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Subpart HB Requirements for Boilers Fabricated by Brazing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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 ARTICLE 1
GENERAL

HF-100 SCOPE
The rules in Part HF are applicable to heating boilers
that are constructed primarily of wrought materials, and
shall be used in conjunction with general requirements of
Part HG of this Section.

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