BS 1502:1982

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Specification
Section one. General requirements
1. Scope
2. Designations
3. Information to be supplied by the purchaser
4. Manufacturer of the steel
5. Chemical composition
6. Condition of supply
7. Freedom from defects
8. Marking
9. Manufacturer's certificate
10. Delivery
11. Defects revealed after delivery
12. Inspection
13. Dimensional tolerances
Section two. Testing requirements
14. Testing facilities
15. Selection, number, position, heat treatment and
     preparation of test pieces
16. Test methods
17. Test results
18. Retests
Appendices
A. Characteristic elevated temperature yield stress
     or proof stress values
B. Stress rupture values
Tables
1. Property options
2. Impact test values for subsidiary standard test
     pieces
3. Chemical composition (ladle analysis), deoxidation,
     mechanical properties at room temperature and
     supply condition for carbon and carbon-manganese
     steels
4. Chemical composition (ladle analysis), mechanical
     properties at room temperature and heat treatment
     and supply condition for alloy steels
5. Chemical composition (ladle analysis), mechanical
     properties at room temperature, heat treatment and
     sensitization times for austenitic stainless steels
6. Charpy V-notch impact properties
7. Permitted deviation from the specified composition:
     carbon and carbon-manganese steels
8. Permitted deviation from the specified composition:
     low and medium alloy steels
9. Permitted deviation from the specified composition:
     austenitic stainless steels
10. Minimum lower yield stress (ReL) or minimum proof
     stress (Rp0.2) at elevated temperatures: carbon
     and carbon-manganese steels
11. Minimum proof stress (Rp0.2) at elevated
     temperatures: low and medium alloy steels
12. Minimum proof stress (Rp1.0) at elevated
     temperatures: austenitic stainless steels
13. Stress rupture values: carbon and carbon-manganese
     steels
14. Stress rupture values: low and medium alloy steels
15. Stress rupture values: austenitic stainless steels
Figures
1. Positions of test samples for tensile tests:
     sections and flat bars
2. Positions of test samples for impact tests:
     sections and flat bars

General and testing requirements for carbon, carbon-manganese low and medium alloy, and austenitic steel sections and bars for fired and unfired pressure vessels.