Defines the technical requirements for safe, dimensionally and functionally interchangeable bonded flexible pipes that are designed and manufactured to uniform standards and criteria. Minimum requirements are specified for the design, material selection, manufacture, testing, marking and packaging of bonded flexible pipes, with reference to existing codes and standards where applicable. This document applies to bonded flexible pipe body with end fittings attached to both ends. It does not cover flexible pipes of unbonded structre of to flexible pipes that include non-metallic reinforcing layers, though no effort was made to address the specific and unique technological aspects of this product.

This edition of Spec 17K is the identical national adoptionof ISO 13628-10:2005, Petroleum and natural gas industries-Design and operation of subsea production systems-Part 10: Specification for bonded flexible pipe. This specification contains the API Monogram Annex as part of the U.S. national adoption.