UT Quality/UT Quality USA servicesServices/In-field welder testing
Sending a welder off the job to qualify costs the job production. UT Quality USA brings the test to the work: the welder makes the test weld where he is already working, coupons are cut from that weld and bend and tensile tested, and our AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) examines the tested specimens and approves or rejects the qualification.
We mobilize to the right-of-way, pipe yard, station or fab shop. The welder makes the test weld on the process, position and material the project requires.
Specimens are cut from the completed test weld at the locations the governing welding code requires, and prepared for testing.
The specimens are bend tested and pull (tensile) tested, plus any other tests the code calls for. Welder qualification is a destructive test: the coupons are cut and broken, not scanned.
Our AWS Certified Welding Inspector examines the tested specimens against the code’s acceptance criteria and approves or rejects the qualification.
The qualification weld is made at the job site, on the process, position and material your project requires.
Specimens cut from the welder’s own test weld and destructively tested to the governing code.
A pass or a fail against the code’s acceptance criteria, made by our AWS CWI.
A documented qualification result for the owner’s or contractor’s records.
No. The test is run where the welder is already working, so the crew keeps producing while the coupons are cut, tested and examined.
Yes. Coupons are cut from the test weld and bend and tensile tested, plus any other tests the code requires. The coupons are consumed by the testing.
The welding code named in your project specification, for example API 1104, ASME Section IX or AWS D1.1. Tell us the code and the qualification procedure.
Our AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) examines the tested specimens and approves or rejects the qualification.
Welder qualification is performed to the welding code named in your project specification, for example API 1104, ASME Section IX or AWS D1.1.
Tell us the code, the procedure and how many welders need testing, and a UT Quality representative will follow up.
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