ASTM A252 for Welded and Seamless Steel Pipe

American Standard ASTM A252 is pipe piling material standard that has been widely used in constructions and structural buildings. A252 specification includes three grades (1, 2, and 3), Grade 3 pipe piling material is the most used option.

This specification covers nominal wall cylindrical steel pipe piles in which the steel cylinder acts as a permanent load-carrying member or as a shell to form cast-in-place concrete piles. Each welded pile shall be made by seamless, electric resistance welding, flash welding or fusion welding with longitudinal, helical-butt, or helical-lap seams. This specification also deals with material tensile requirements, minimum elongation values and common size and weights per unit length values.

In three grades of this standard, ASTM A252 Grade 3 pipe piling is the most common and used in piling activities. Because it has a higher tensile strength (455Mpa or 66,000 psi) and yield strength (310 Mpa or 45,000 psi).

Chemical composition:

The standard has a limit for element P (phosphorous) maximum 0.050%, since P will make steel fragile, and most important is not good for welding performances.

Mechanical Properties:

Enlongations:

Material analysis

Heat Analysis: Limits to elements P, and heat result shall be reported in MTC to customer.
Product Analysis: Test frequency shall be determined by the pipe diameter, where, under 14 inch 2 samples per 200 pieces, 14 to 36 inch 2 samples per 100 pieces, above 36 inch is 2 per 3000 ft.
Tensile requirements: Values shall be complied to the above tensile strength and yield strength. It shall be noted that if got a vague yield point, then to test yield strength corresponding to a permanent offset of 0.2% of the gage length of the sample specimen, or to test a total extension of 0.5% of the gage length under load.

Weight and dimension tolerances

Pipe pile weights per units (Feet, meter or lengths)
Tolerance allowed: A252 pipe pile weight shall be in +15% or -5% of theoretic weight. OD tolerances at +/-1%, wall thickness +/- 12%.
Lengths: As specified SRL, DRL, or fixed length 20 ft or 40 ft and customized.

Different than other pipelines

Hydrostatic test is not specified in ASTM A252 pipe specification, as normally piling pipe is filling with cement and concrete and forming, not for liquid transmission, so hydrotest is not required.

Different test methods for seamless and welded pipe piles

Seamless, welded, (Longitudinal or helical welded) test methods are different. Check ASTM A252 pipe standard specification for more details. But all of these types are tested in a room temperature.

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Torich International Limited is a professional manufacturer and exporter of steel pipes materials. It is an international marketing and sales company specialized in steel tubes, which holds the factories of Seamless Steel Tubes with Carbon and Alloy Steel Grade, Welded Precision Steel Tubes，DOM Steel Tubes, Seamless & Welded Stainless Steel Tubes with Nickel and Alloy Steel Grade.
Our factory was established since 1997, with the name of Haiyan Sanxin Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. The factories’ technicians are of great engineering experience in steel pipe industry for more than 20 years, which are in great command of production technology for Cold Drawing and Cold Rolling. So we have strong technician team and manufacturing capability.

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Our steel pipes cover the following ranges:
Seamless Precision Steel Pipes

Bearing Steel Tubes
Welded Precision Steel Pipes, with DOM production
Seamless Heat Exchanger Steel Pipe
Seamless Boiler Steel Pipes

Honed Tubes

Hydraulic Cylinder Steel Tubes

Hydraulic Telescopic Cylinder Tubes
Seamless Structural Steel Pipes
Seamless Mechanical Steel Pipes
Seamless Alloy Steel Tubes & Pipes
Seamless Stainless Steel tubes
Welded Stainless Steel Tubes
Seamless Stainless Steel Tubes & Pipes
Welded Stainless Steel Tubes & Pipes
Seamless Carbon Steel Tubes & Pipes
Nickel Alloy Steel Tubes & Pipes

What TORICH do:
1. Producing Steel Tubes
2. Selling both on Domestic and International Market
3. Precisely Targeting Customers’ Requirement- Sourcing the right factory for right products for Customers

Products Application:
Oil Cylinders
Air Cylinder, 
Automotive Cylinder Liners
Boilers, Pressure Vessels
Shell & Heat Exchangers
Jack Lifting
Telescopic Systems
Pneumatic Cylinders
Agricultural Machineries

Size range is: 
O.D. 4-350mm, 
W.T. 0.5-30mm, 
Length: according to customer’s requirement and agreement
 

Steel Grade:
Carbon Steel Grade:
ST35.8, ST37.0, ST44, ST52;
E155, E195, E215, E235, E275, E355;
195GH, P235GH, P265GH, P195TR1, P195TR2, P235TR1, P235TR2, P265TR1, P265TR2;
SAE1010, SAE1020, SAE1026, SAE1035, SAE1045;

Carbon steel tube: SA178, A179, A192, A210, SA213, SA214, etc.

Alloy Steel Grade:
T2, T5, T9, T11, T12, T17, T21, T22, T91,T92, 15Mo3,16Mo3, 13CrMo44;
SAE4130, SAE4140, 40Cr, 40Cr4, 10CrMo910, 12CrMo910, 11CrMo910,
25CrMo4, 35CrMo, 35CrMo4, 42CrMo4, 34CrMo4, 20MnV, 20MnV6,20CrMn;
Carbon steel tube: A179,A192,A210,DIN17175,etc.

Bearing Steel Grades:
GCr15 52100 suj2 suj3 100Cr6 SKF3S SKF3S 20CrNiMo 8620H 4118H;

Nickel Alloy Grade:
N02200/2201, N04400, N06600, N06601, N06625, N06852, N06219, N06690, N08800/8810/8811, N08825, N08028, N08535, N08904, N08925, N08926, N010276, N06022, etc.

Austenitic/Super Austenitic Stainless Steel Grade:
304/304L, 316/316L, 314, 321, 347H, 316Ti, 316LMod, 317L/N, 310S, 253MA, 330, 904L, S31254, XM-19, etc. 

Ferrite/Martensite Stainless Steel Grade:
TP410, TP405, TP420, TP430, TP430Ti, TP403, TP409, TP444, TP439, TP446, etc. 

Duplex/Super Duplex Stainless Steel Grade:
S31803, S32304, S31500, S32550, S32750, S32760, etc. 

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We focus on Quality First, Quality Traceability, and Quality Stability!
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Success:
First factory started in 1997, in the name of Torich , now covers 50000 square meters of factory building, with more than 100employees, and over 45 million RBM assets.
In 2008, we started the company of Torich International Limited for international business and marketing.
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