Course Overview:
The purpose of this training course is to equip the participants with the knowledge of welding qualifications and the requirements attached to it as per the ASME Section IX standard.
The trainee will be able to understand how to read and use the requirements for the certification of welding procedures and welders including the drafting and filing of WPS, PQR and WPQ documents.
This course also contains information about the method and common types of Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods utilized during welding inspection, such as Weld visual inspection, magnetic particle inspection, ultrasonic testing, and radiographic testing. Important lecture contents are welding process explanations, welder qualifications, test records, and the processes of locating discontinuities, and interpreting the meaning of discontinuities.
This course is suited for plant inspectors, QA/QC officers and those dealing with the welding qualifications and NDT tests.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- To introduce participants to the purpose and methodology of Welding Qualifications.
- Learn how to understand, interpret, and comply with ASME Section IX requirements
- How to conduct Procedure and Welder Tests, and certification of welders.
- To provide a step-by-step approach in the preparation of WPS, PQR, and WPQ records.
- Re-certification of Welders and Welding Operators.
- Understand the requirements of ASME sec. IX for Procedure Qualifications
- Know the common NDT methods used in industry
- The principle and Methodology of common NDT methods
- Merits and demerits of NDT methods
- Selecting the appropriate NDT methods
- How to Calibrate equipment and conduct the NDT examinations, Understand Types of discontinuities
- Detection, Interpretation, and evaluation of indications
- Document the test results, Understand the requirements of ASME sec. V for NDT
Who Should Attend?
This course is ideally suited for all inspection persons to understand the role of Procedure Qualification as a tool of Quality Assurance. This course will be beneficial for Plant inspectors, Third-party inspectors and Shop inspectors, QA/QC personnel, and others involved in Welding qualifications and NDT examinations.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction to Welding Procedures
- Overview of Procedure Qualifications WPS/PQR
- Brief review of Welding processes SMAW, SAW, GTAW,GMAW,
- Brief review of Welding consumables, AWS and ASME classification
- Requirements for Procedure Qualification
- Requirement of performance qualification
- Welding variables- Essential, non-essential, Supplementary
- Documentation of PQR tests-Contents of PQR
- Writing Welding procedure specifications on the basis of
- Qualified PQR
- Contents of WPS.
- Scrutiny of WPS/PQR documents
- P- No, S- No, F- No and A- No
- Performance Qualification-tests and documentation
- Re-qualification of welders.
- Case Studies covering preparation of WPS/PQR documents
- Welding Inspection Operations
- Inspection Considerations
- Quality Assurance by NDT methods
- Examination Methods
- Qualification of Non-destructive Examination Personnel
- Discontinuities
- Visual Examination (VT)
- Magnetic Particle Examination (MT)
- Liquid Penetrant Examination (PT)
- Eddy Current Inspection (ET)
- Radiographic Inspection (RT)
- Ultrasonic Inspection (UT)
- Weld Inspection and Data Recording