Why Is There Weld Testing?

ASM – AWS (NTX) Joint Meeting

Michael S. Beaton, PE
17 February, 2011
 AWS WELDING CODES
• 34 PAGES OF • D1.1 STRUCTURAL
CODES, WELDING CODE –
SPECIFICATIONS, STEEL
AND • D1.2 –ALUMINUM
RECOMMENDED • D1.3 – SHEET
PRACTICES STEEL
• D1.4 -REINFORCING
STEEL
• D1.5 BRIDGE
WELDING
 AWS WELDING CODES, cont.
• D1.6 -Structural Welding • ASME BPVC
Code—Stainless Steel • API 1104
• D1.8 Structural Welding • AAR Appendix W
Code -Seismic • ABS
Supplement
• Other industries and
• D1.9 Structural Welding companies, automotive,
Code—Titanium airframe & powerplant,
• D3.6 UNDERWATER Navy Nuclear …
WELDING
 ASME BOILER & PRESSURE
VESSEL CODE – Section IX
• -in QW-100.1: “The • -in QW-100.2: “In
purpose for qualification performance qualification,
of a WPS is to determine the basic criterion
that the weldment established for welder
proposed for construction qualification is to
is capable of providing determine the welder’s
the required properties ability to deposit sound
for its intended weld metal.”
application. Welding
procedure qualification
establishes the properties
of the weldment,…”
 What do we test?

• Visual
Inspection
 What do we test?

• Transverse-
weld
Tensiles
• (generally, two per
WPS qualification)
• Full size tube
• All-Weldmetal Tensile
 ling an Extensometer on
-Weldmetal Tensile
ple
Defects in Weld Revealed by the Tensile Test
 What do we test?

• Bends
• (generally, four per
WPS qualification)
• 2-root + 2-face, or
• 4-side
• (depends on material
thickness)
 What do we test?
• NICK BREAK
 What do we test?
• Charpy V-Notch
Impact
• Weld (CW)
• HAZ (CH)
• Fusion Line
• Fusion Line +1mm
• Fusion Line +5mm
 What do we test?
• CHARPY’s -Sets of three – most Codes
• Set of five, take middle three – AWS D1.5
 What do we test?
• Hardness
VICKERS INDENTATIONS
Surveys
–NACE
–API
–EN
–others
 What do we test?
• MICROSTRUCTURAL
ANALYSIS
• Volume Fraction by
Systematic Manual
Point Count (E562)
Mixed filler metal deposits discovered in a weld cross section
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