{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-68/annex-I/division-2/division-7/division-7.1/division-7.1.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-68/annex-I/division-2/division-7/division-7.1/division-7.1.2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/68",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-68",
  "path": "annex/I/division/2/division/7/division/7.1/division/7.1.2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "7.1.2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The permissible general membrane stress for predominantly static loads and for temperatures outside the range in which creep is significant shall not exceed the smaller of the following values, according to the material used:\nin the case of ferritic steel including normalised (normalised rolled) steel and excluding fine-grained steel and specially heat-treated steel, 2/3 of Re/t and 5/12 of Rm/20,\nin the case of austenitic steel:\nif its elongation after rupture exceeds 30 %, 2/3 of Re/t\nor, alternatively, and if its elongation after rupture exceeds 35 %, 5/6 of Re/t and 1/3 of Rm/t,\nin the case of non-alloy or low-alloy cast steel, 10/19 of Re/t and 1/3 of Rm/20,\nin the case of aluminium, 2/3 of Re/t,\nin the case of aluminium alloys excluding precipitation hardening alloys 2/3 of Re/t and 5/12 of Rm/20.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/68/annex/I/division/2/division/7/division/7.1/division/7.1.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:42.605150+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}