Course Overview:
This course aims at equipping the learners with the knowledge and skills of interpreting ASME Section IX standards as they relate to the qualification of welding procedures and performance.
After the completion of the course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to prepare and review welding procedures in accordance with ASME IX. Other at the course include basic welding technology such as SMAW, SAW, GTAW, GMAW, and qualification of welding operators.
PQRs are important in the qualification of welders and students will be able to write and analyze them with the correct interpretation of WPSs, and performance-based qualifications for welders’ scopes of work.
Applications of such various methods as VT, MT, PT, RT, and UT according to the mechanical expectations will be taught on the course, which will also provide opportunities for practical case studies. QA/QC specialists, welding engineers, welding inspectors, and others who practice as third-party inspectors should be able to attend this course.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, you should be able to demonstrate that you can navigate through ASME IX as well as understand how a welding procedure is compiled against ASME IX and assessed for compliance to that standard/code.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for you as a member of QA/QC personnel, a welding inspector, welding engineer, welding co-ordinator, surveyor, or third party.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction to Welding Procedures
- Overview of Procedure Qualifications WPS/PQR
- A brief review of Welding processes SMAW, SAW, GTAW, GMAW,
- A brief review of Welding consumables, AWS and ASME classification
- Requirements for Procedure Qualification
- The 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