• Power Boiler (High Pressure) Materials
  

• Plate
  
• Forgings,
  
• Castings, 
  
• Pipes,
  
• Tubes, and Pressure-Containing Parts,
  
• Material Identified With or Produced to a Specification Not Permitted by this Section,
  
• Material Not Fully Identified , 
  
• Miscellaneous Pressure Parts,
  
• Water Level Indicators and Connector Materials,
  
• Stays,
  
• Rivets

• Design

• Fabrication by a Combination of Methods, 
• Design Validation by Proof Test, 
• Cold Forming of Austenitic Materials, 
• Maximum Allowable Working Pressure, 
• Loadings, 
• Stress Values for Calculation Formulas, 
• Quality Factors for Steel Castings, 
• Cylindrical Components Under Internal Pressure, 
• Welded Access or Inspection Openings Under External Pressure, 
• Dished Heads, 
• Stayed Dished Heads, 
• Un-stayed Flat Heads and Covers

• Openings in Shells, Headers, and Heads
• Compensation Required for Openings in Shells and Formed Heads.
• Flanged-in Openings in Formed Heads
• Compensation Required for Openings in Flat Unstayed Heads and Flat Stayed Plates
• Limits of Metal Available for Compensation
• Strength of Compensation
• Compensation for Multiple Openings
• Methods of Attachment of Pipe and Nozzle Necks to Vessel Walls
• General Requirements for Fittings, Flanges, and Valves
• Nozzle Neck Thickness
• Inspection Openings
• Stayed Surfaces
• Staybolts
• Location of Staybolts
• Dimensions of Staybolts
• Ligaments
• Supports and Attachment Lugs
• Outlets and External Piping
• Application Requirements for the Boiler Proper
• Requirements for Miscellaneous Pipe, Valves, and Fittings
• Feedwater Supply
• Boiler Safety Valve Requirements
• Superheater and Reheater Safety Valve Requirements
• Certification of Capacity of Safety and Safety Relief Valves
• Capacity of Safety Valves
• Mounting
• Operation
• Minimum Requirements for Safety and Safety Relief Valves
• Cutting Plates and Other Stock
• Plate Identification
• Repairs of Defects in Materials
• Tube Holes and Ends
• Permissible Out-of-Roundness of Cylindrical Shells
• Tolerance for Formed Heads
• Holes for Stays
• Qualification of Inspectors
• Inspection and Repair of Flat Plate in Corner Joints
• Hydrostatic Test
• Heating Surface Computation
• Code Symbol Stamps
• Stamping of Boilers
• Field Assembly
• Stamping for Field-Assembled Boilers
• Stamping of Pressure Piping
• Stamping of Safety Valves
• Location of Stampings
• Manufacturers Data Report Forms
• Master Data Report Form
• Design of Welded Joints
• Heat Treatment
• Radiographic and Ultrasonic Examination of Welded Butt Joints
• Head-to-Flange Requirements
• Openings in or Adjacent to Welds
• Welded Connections
• Minimum Requirements for Attachment Welds
• Welded-in Stays
• Welding Processes
• Welding Qualification and Weld Records
• Base Metal Preparation
• Assembly
• Alignment Tolerance, Shells and Vessels (Including Pipe or Tube Used as a Shell)
• Alignment, Tube and Pipe
• Finished Longitudinal and Circumferential Joints
• Miscellaneous Welding Requirements
• Preheating
• Requirements for Post Weld Heat Treatment
• Repair of Defects
• Circumferential Joints in Pipes, Tubes, and Headers
• Joints in Valves and Other Boiler Appurtenances
• Loading on Structural Attachments
• Check of Welding Procedure
• Check of Welder and Welding Operator Performance Qualifications
• Check of Heat Treatment Practice
• Qualification of Nondestructive Examination Personnel
• Acceptance Standards for Radiography
• Acceptance Standards for Ultrasonic Examination
• Test Plates
• Hydrostatic Test
• Brazing Filler Metals
• Fluxes and Atmospheres
• Strength of Brazed Joints
• Brazed Joint Efficiency
• Application of Brazing Filler Metal
• Permissible Types of Joints
• Joint Clearance
• Joint Brazing Procedure
• Openings
• Brazed Connections
• Qualification of Brazing Procedure
• Qualification of Brazers and Brazing Operators
• Cleaning of Surfaces to Be Brazed
• Clearance Between Surfaces to Be Brazed
• Post brazing Operations
• Repair of Defective Brazing
• Tubes and Pipe
• Tube Wall Thickness
• Tube Connections
• Stay bolting Box-Type Headers
• Staying Segment of Heads
• Firing Doors
• Access and Firing Doors
• Thickness Requirements
• Shell Joints
• Attachment of Heads and Tubesheets
• Tubes
• Combustion Chamber Tubesheet
• Plain Circular Furnaces
• Ring-Reinforced Type
• Corrugated Furnaces
• Combined Plain Circular and Corrugated Type
• Attachment of Furnaces
• Fireboxes and Waterlegs
• Working Pressure for Stayed Curved Surfaces
• Staying Horizontal Return Tube Boilers
• Staying Segments of Heads
• Area Supported by Stay
• Maximum Spacing
• Staybolts and Stays
• Flexible Staybolts
• Crown Bars and Girder Stays
• Stay Tubes
• Stresses in Diagonal Stays
• Welded Door Openings
• Openings in Wrapper Sheets
• Fireside Access Openings
• Requirements for Inspection Openings
• Opening Between Boiler and Safety Valve
• Requirements for Domes
• Method of Support
• Water Level Indicators
• Feed Piping
• Blow-off Piping
• Thickness of Furnaces and Tubes Under External Pressure
• Maximum Allowable Working Pressure Figures
• Welding
• Washout Openings
• Feedwater Supply
• Blow-offs
• Water Gauges
• Fixtures and Fittings
• Safety Valves
• Steam Stop Valves
• Automatic Devices
• Hydrostatic Tests and Inspection
• Optional Requirements for the Boiler Pressure Vessel
• Welding
• Inspection Openings
• Feedwater Supply
• Blow-offs
• Water Level Indicators
• Pressure Gauges
• Safety Valves
• Automatic Devices
• Hydrostatic Test
• Inspection and Stamping of Boilers
• Manufacturers Data Report for Electric Boilers
• Gage Glasses
• Drain Valves
• Safety Valves

This  ASME Boiler Code Section I (Section 1) Code book includes an ASME industrial grade three-ring binder.  The ASME binder is exclusively made for industrial use (rough & tough).  

This publication ASME Boiler Code Section I (Section 1) is issued with an automatic addenda service. All addenda service publications are issued in loose leaf format to facilitate later insertion of replacement pages which incorporate the latest approved changes to the standard.