Welding is a widely used and essential joining technique across various industries, particularly in sectors like chemicals, oil, and gas, where it plays a crucial role in constructing pipelines and storage tanks.
This 5-day Engineering Aspects of Welding training course is designed to impart essential welding principles and techniques, enabling participants to identify different welding processes.
Key topics covered in this Engineering Aspects of Welding training course include:
- An overview of various welding processes
- Understanding different types of welding joints
- Interpreting welding technical drawings and symbols
- Identifying welding defects, associated issues, and exploring mechanical testing, weld failures, and Non-Destructive Testing methods
- Gaining insights into basic welding metallurgy
By the end of this Engineering Aspects of Welding training course, participants will be able to:
- Comprehend the application and standards of various welding techniques
- Identify the different types of welding joints and their uses
- Understand the characteristics and standards of various types of welding electrodes
- Recognize the challenges of welding different metals and the techniques involved
- Learn how heat treatment, including the study of basic metallurgy, can address issues like the Heat-Affected Zone (HAZ) in welding
- Identify common welding defects and failures, and understand their causes
- Explore the use of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to detect weld defects
- Apply materials testing methods to evaluate the strength and quality of welded joints
- Gain knowledge of corrosion testing techniques and how to interpret the results
This Energy Engineering Aspects of Welding training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. It will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures, case studies and interactive worked examples. Relevant case studies will be provided to illustrate the application of each tool in an operations environment. Each learning point will be re-enforced with practical exercises. There will be ample opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences.
This Engineering Aspects of Welding training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Welding Engineers and Technicians
- Inspection and Maintenance Personnel
- Graduate Engineers
- Project Engineers
Day One: Introduction and Weld Joint Design
- Introduction, welding terminology
- Codes and standards
- Weld joint design, load performance, types of joints,
- Welding techniques, positional welding
- Welding Joints
Day Two: Welding Processes
- Welding processes, process options, benefits, problems and applications, Oxyacetylene process
- Fusion welding processes
- Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
- Submerged Metal Arc Welding
- Gas Metal Arc Welding
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
- Arc welding electrodes, electrode identification
Day Three: Welding Technical Prints, Symbols and Basic Metallurgy
- Welding drawings
- Welding symbols
- Placement of welding symbols
- Basic metallurgy
- Crystalline structure of metals
- Solidification of metals
- Micro-structure of carbon steel
- Heat treatment of steel
- Carbon and alloy steels
- Heat Affected Zone, HAZ
Day Four: Welding Defects and Imperfections
- Welding defects, imperfections, porosity, slag inclusion, etc.
- Geometric shape imperfections
- Residual stress
- Stress concentration
- Measurements
Day Five: Materials Testing and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
- Materials testing and failure
- Tensile testing
- impact testing (Izod and Charpy), transition temperature
- hardness tests (Vickers and Rockwell)
- Fatigue failure
- Non destructive testing (NDT) dye penetrant, magnetic methods, X-ray methods, etc
