ASTM B163/ASME SB163 Nickel Alloy Pipe/Tube

ASTM B163 is the Specification for Seamless Nickel and Nickel Alloy Condenser and Heat-exchanger Tubes. This covers outside diameter and average wall, or outside diameter and minimum wall tube. The tube shall be furnished in the alloys and conditions defined by this specification. 

The ASTM B163/ASME SB163 material shall conform to the composition limits of nickel, copper, molybdenum, iron, manganese, carbon, silicon, chromium, aluminum, titanium, phosphorus, cerium, and zirconium, yttrium, boron, cobalt, columbium, tungsten, and nitrogen specified. Tensile strength, yield strength, elongation, and Rockwell hardness of the material shall conform to the required Mechanical Properties set by this specification. 

Test methods such as chemical analysis, tension, rounding procedure, Rockwell hardness, grain size, and hardness conversion shall be performed for qualified ASTM B163/ASME SB163 alloy tubes.