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2011-6 TechPresentation Sperko PDF
2011-6 TechPresentation Sperko PDF
• Welding Engineers
The Secrets to Using • Metallurgists
ASME Section IX • Other Engineers
An Educational Seminar • NDE specialists
Walter J. Sperko, PE • QA/QC specialists
Sperko Engineering
Greensboro, NC 27406
• Welders
www.sperkoengineering.com • Technical Committee Members
Sperko@asme.org
• Previous exposure to Section IX
© Sperko Engineering Services, Inc.
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Notice
• Please turn cell phones, iPods, PDAs, All statements by the speaker represent his
and any other ringing things to “silent.” opinion alone and do not necessarily represent
the position of the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code Committee. All requests for
interpretations or other inquiries relative to
ASME Code and Standards should be
addressed to the Secretary, ASME Boiler and
Pressure Vessel Code Committee, ASME
International, Three Park Avenue, New York, NY
10016-5990.
ASME Code Editions and Addenda ASME Code Editions and Addenda
ASME B&PV Codes will be published two-year Secret: Once work starts on a boiler or vessel,
annual addenda beginning in 2013. The latest the designer works to a specific edition and
addenda was published July 1, 2011 and addenda, that edition and addenda applies to all
become mandatory for use for new construction the work done on that boiler or pressure vessel
January 1, 2012. regardless of how long it takes to build it.
Applicable edition that applies to a boiler, vessel Secret: This includes Section IX. But Section IX
or piping is based on: has always said the following. . . .
1)contract date, unless there is an
2)edition and addenda specified in the purchase
order.
WELDING PROCEDURE?
Invisible Wall
• QW-3XX Welder and Welding Operator
Qualified SWPS
Qualification Procedure
Read
QW-300
• QW-4XX Variables Read
Read
• QW-5XX Standard Welding Procedures QW-200
QW-500
(SWPSs) Qualified
Adopt Welder
Qualified
SWPS
WPS
Production
Weld
QW-201 Manufacturer’s or
QW-200.2 The PQR
Contractor’s Responsibility
• “(e) Availability of the PQR. PQRs used
• The welders or welding operators used
to support WPSs shall be available, upon
to produce weldments to be tested for
request, for review by the Authorized
qualification of procedures shall be under
Inspector (AI).
the full supervision and control of the
• The PQR need not be available to the manufacturer or contractor during the
welder or welding operator. production of these test weldments.
QW-201 Manufacturer’s or
QW-250 WELDING VARIABLES
Contractor’s Responsibility
Who has to qualify the WPSs? • “QW-251.1 Types of Variables for
The manufacturer or contractor that has first-line Welding Procedure Specifications.
responsibility for supervising the welders who do These variables listed for each welding
production welding is the organization that has to process are subdivided into essential,
qualify the WPS.
supplementary essential and
How about Welders? nonessential variables.
Same provisions apply to welder qualification –
the organization that supervises the welders is
the organization that has to qualify the welders.
SECRET:
QW-420 P-numbers
• QW-420 BASE METAL GROUPINGS
• P-Numbers are alphanumeric designations:
accordingly, each P-Number shall be considered a
separate P-Number (e.g., base metals assigned P-
No. 5A are considered a separate P-Number from
those assigned P-No. 5B or P-No. 5C).
EQW-404.4
• A change from one F-Number in
QW-432 to any other F-Number
or to any other filler metal not
listed in QW-432.
• Secret 1: you can use any filler
metal you can qualify
• Secret 2: Filler metals do not
have to have F-numbers
EQW-403.9
To address this variable
•The PQR needs to record: “No pass
exceeded ½ in (13 mm) in thickness”
•The WPS needs to say: “No pass may
exceed ½ inch (13 mm) in thickness.”
Records
• QW-301.4 Record of Tests. The record . . .
shall include
• the essential variables (QW-350 or QW-
360)
• type of test and test results
• ranges qualified in accordance with QW-
452 for each welder and welding operator.
• A suggested form for these records is given
in Form QW-484 (see Nonmandatory
Appendix B).
• Certifying Signature
Testing Process
• QW-30l.2 Qualification Tests.
• Changes beyond which
requalification is required are given
in
– QW-350 for welders and in
– QW-360 for welding operators.
Welders Welders
• Alternatively, welders making a groove • Alternatively, welders making a groove
weld using SMAW, SAW, GTAW, PAW, weld using SMAW, SAW, GTAW, PAW,
and GMAW (except short-circuiting and GMAW or a combination of these
mode) or a combination of these processes, may be qualified by
processes, may be qualified by Ultrasonic Examination.
radiographic examination. • Secret 1: UT is permitted for qualification
• Secret: RT is not permitted for of GMAW-S
qualification of GMAW-S • Secret 2: UT is limited to test coupons
over ½ in (13 mm) thick.
• Some variables. . .
Base metals that you can use Base metals that you need to P-1 P-1 through P-15E, P-34,
to qualify a welder weld in production and P-41 through P-49
P-1 through P-15E, P-34, or P-1 through P-15E, P-34, and
P-41 through P-49 P-41 through P-49
Move to this
column
SFA-5.9 GMAW, GTAW All classifications, SS • A change from one F-Number in QW-
SFA-5.18 GMAW, GTAW All classifications, CS
SFA-5.20 GMAW-FC All classifications, CS
432 to any other F-Number or to any
SFA-5.22 GMAW-FC All classifications, SS other filler metal, except as permitted in
SFA-5.28 GMAW, GTAW All classifications LAS QW-433.
SFA-5.29 GMAW-FC All classifications, LAS
• Secret: Unassigned filler metals and
electrodes have to be separately
qualified.
±15
°
Positions
• QW-110 WELD ORIENTATION
• The orientations of welds are illustrated
in figure QW-461.1 or figure QW-461.2.
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Continuity Continuity
• QW-322.2 Renewal of Qualification • QW-322.2 Renewal of Qualification
• (a) Renewal of qualification expired • That successful test renews the welder or
under QW322.1(a) above may be made welding operator's previous qualifications
for any process by welding a single test for that process for those materials,
coupon of either plate or pipe, of any thicknesses, diameters, positions, and
material, thickness or diameter, in any other variables for which he was
position, and by testing of that coupon as previously qualified.
required by QW-301 and QW -302.