Revised European standards are to be introduced in the near future that will allow
the use of high strength quench and tempered steel plates
for pressure vessel
applications. Such steels have been successfully used for offshore applications.
Following the ECOPRESS project that was supported by the European Commission,
this paper describes the detailed properties of the state
of the art European quenched
and tempered plates that are produced for pressure vessel applications by Dillinger
Hütte GTS.