Free technical references for specifying stainless steel pipe and tube: charts and calculators, guides to the ASTM, ASME, EN, ISO, DIN and JIS specifications, grade data and buying guides. Values on these pages are taken from the standards themselves, with the edition stated.
Charts, calculators and converters
- Pipe schedule chart and weight calculator — ASME B36.19 sizes, schedules 5S to 160S, weight by grade
- Pressure rating chart — Allowable working pressure by size and schedule
- psi to MPa converter — psi, MPa, bar, kPa and ksi with conversion tables
- mm to inches fraction converter — Fractional and decimal inches to mm, with charts
- Hardness conversion chart (ASTM E140) — HRC, HRB, HV, HB, including the austenitic stainless table
- Surface finish Ra chart — ASME BPE SF1 to SF6 and ASTM A270 finishes
ASTM and ASME standards
- ASTM A312 — Seamless, welded and heavily cold-worked pipe
- ASTM A213 / ASME SA213 — Seamless boiler, superheater and heat-exchanger tube
- ASTM A249 — Welded boiler and heat-exchanger tube
- ASTM A269 — General-service seamless and welded tubing
- ASTM A270 — Sanitary tubing
- ASME BPE — Bioprocessing equipment tubing
- ASTM A358 — Electric-fusion-welded pipe
- ASTM A554 — Welded mechanical tubing
- ASTM A632 — Small-diameter tubing
- ASTM A778 — Welded unannealed tubular products
- ASTM A790 — Duplex stainless pipe
- ASTM A999 — General requirements for pipe
- ASME B16.5 weld neck flanges — Class 150 dimensions and drilling
- ASME B16.9 reducers — Concentric vs eccentric, end-to-end lengths
- ASTM A967 and A380 — Passivation treatments and tests
EN, ISO, DIN and JIS standards
- EN 10216-5 — Seamless stainless tubes for pressure purposes
- EN 10217-7 — Welded stainless tubes for pressure purposes
- EN 10296-2 — Welded mechanical tubes
- EN 10312 — Welded tubes for water
- EN 10357 — Welded tubes for food and chemical industry
- EN ISO 1127 — Dimensions and tolerances
- ISO 2037 — Tubes for the food industry
- ISO 9626 — Needle tubing for medical devices
- DIN 11850 — Sanitary tube sizes
- DIN 11866 — Hygienic tubes
- JIS G3459 — Stainless steel pipe
- EN 10204 3.1 — Mill test certificates
Grades
Selection and buying guides
- Stainless steel composition
- Needle valves and manifolds
- Pressure relief valves
- Pipe vs tube
- Seamless vs welded
- Carbon steel vs stainless steel
- Is stainless steel magnetic?
- Bright annealed (BA) tube
- Capillary tube vs needle tube
- Square vs rectangular tube
- How to specify sanitary tubing
- How to specify capillary tube
- How to specify special-shaped tube
- Hydraulic tubing
- Pipe price guide
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