These materials when in the raw form are fabricated into basic shapes like sheets strips plates bars beams disks rods wires and ingots.
Copper fitting standards.
In medical gas systems this prevents contamination of the gases used in healing and maintaining life.
Cleanliness for copper tube and fittings that are used for specific applications like medical gas astm b819 and hvacr systems astm b280 additional cleanliness requirements are included in the standards to ensure that the interior tube surface does not introduce any contaminants that might interfere with the safety or operation of the system.
A few of these specifications are b 68 b75 b135 b466 and b743.
Copper copper alloy tube pipe fittings standards this is a white paper developed by the cda to provide a comprehensive listing of various standards that are applicable to copper copper alloy tube pipe and fittings.
Fittings manufactured to this standard are to have a copper cu content of not less than 84.
The listing of standards is grouped under two sections.
Copper copper alloy tube and pipe.
Wrought wrot copper alloy fittings used for drainage waste and vent applications with solder joints are manufactured to the requirements of ansi asme b16 29 wrought copper and wrought copper alloy solder joint drainage fittings dwv.