WELDING INSPECTOR KNOWLEDGES: The Welding Inspector must be a high skilled technician or engineer with a good knowledge of general...

The procedure requirements for welding electrodes and preheating temperatures are as follows: Welding must be done with the same process...

Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces. Forging is often classified...

Heat-treating is a term used to describe all of the controlled heating and cooling operations performed on a material in the solid state...

Rockwell Superficial Hardness Test: The Rockwell Superficial Hardness Tester is used to test thin materials, lightly carburized steel...

Hardness is the resistance of a material to localized deformation. The term can apply to deformation from indentation, scratching,...

General Concepts: Stainless steels, resumed here in a general way, are defined as steel alloys, where the chromium content ranges from...

Here are some rarely used NDT – Few Other Methods 1. Eddy Current Testing – ET: Eddy-current inspection uses electromagnetic induction...

Non destructive Testing (NDT)- Common Methods are: Visual Inspection – VT Liquid Penetrant Testing – LT Magnetic Particle Testing – MT...

We would see about Recommendations for Welding of Structural Steel as per AWS D1.1 , 2020 revision Groove Weld: (Clause 4.4.1) Weld...

The sole purpose of welding procedures is to describe the details that are to be followed in the welding of specific materials or type of...

Positions for Welding Pipe For welding pipe in shops, power plants, oil refineries, and chemical plants for crude oil, gasoline, and...

Fillet Weld Positions The advantage of the fillet-welded joint is that it’s unnecessary to prepare the edges of the plates or sheets for...

Standards for Welding Positions: It is very important for the Weld Inspector to know the position, or location of a joint relative to the...

The NDT (nondestructive testing) methods are: Visual Inspection – VT Liquid Penetrant Testing – LT Magnetic Particle Testing – MT...

Radiography Testing: 1) X-Ray tube head -450 kV capacity ( only if construction of a exposure room with approval from government is...

Acceptance Criteria for Liquid Penetrant Testing -LPT as per ASME , AWS and API standards Liquid penetrant testing simply called as PT....

Quality Assurance Glossary This blog gives you the abbreviations and definitions of terms used in quality Assurance department....

Brazing is a process of joining dis-similar metal, where as welding is a process of joining similar metal. In this blog we can see about...

Welding Procedure Specification- WPS This document details, how to qualify a welding procedure specification-wps for weld metal overlay /...