API
API 578
Guidelines for a Material Verification Program for New and Existing Assets
How to run positive material identification as a programme rather than as occasional spot checks: what to verify, how much, when in the sequence, and what to do with a mismatch. It exists because material substitution is usually accidental, usually invisible, and only discovered when something fails in a service the wrong alloy could not take.
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