Please note Brinell Hardness testing is used only for Base Material at Mill and for Production hardness testing. The requirement of 200 BHN is mostly specified for Production Hardness testing since you use a 10 mm Ball indentor.
For PQR, you have to use Vicker's Hardness test for which the NACE MR 0103 / 0175 values are 248HV10 which is considered stringent for P1 materials. Please check your specifications.
Thanks & Regards
J.Gerald Jayakumar
On Wednesday, 3 May, 2023 at 08:31:39 am IST, PARAI Reaction Channel <saravanshyla@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sirs,
-- One of our client in Korea requires PQR for SA 516-70 , P NO. 1 without PWHT condition , to fabricate shell of 17T U stamp, as per design code ASME SEC VIII DIV- 1 ,
with max 200 BHN in weld and HAZ as per their spec.
So we made a PQR with GTAW ER70S-6 & SMAW E7016 classes for welding SA 516-70 , 17T,
GTAW - 5mm weld deposited from root and rest of the passes with SMAW for 12 mm.
You can find the attached pictures for welding parameters and the PQR test results.
Hardness exceeded the 200 BHN limits.
So, can I change to ER70S-2 , the low manganese GTAW ROD and SMAW E7016 with 3.2 dia to obtain max 200 BHN , without PWHT.
Please advice me urgently, after checking the attached weld parameters, preheat, interpass temp. etc. To successfully get the hardness of max 200 BHN .
Thank you.
With best regards,
Saravanan Sornam,
S. KOREA
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