UT Quality/UT Quality USA services/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 they are already working, coupons are cut from that weld and mechanically tested as the code requires, and our AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) examines the tested specimens and reports pass or fail against the code, for the employer or company to certify the welder.
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, plus tensile and nick-break tests where API 1104 calls for them and any other tests the code requires. Welder qualification is usually a destructive test — coupons cut and mechanically tested — though the governing code may allow radiographic examination of the test weld instead, at the owner’s or company’s option.
Our AWS Certified Welding Inspector examines the tested specimens against the code’s acceptance criteria and reports pass or fail, for the employer or company to certify the welder.
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 tested as the governing code requires.
A pass or a fail against the code’s acceptance criteria, reported 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.
Usually. Coupons are cut from the test weld and mechanically tested as the code requires: bend tests, plus tensile and nick-break tests where API 1104 calls for them. The governing code may allow radiographic examination of the test weld instead, at the owner’s or company’s option.
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 reports pass or fail against the code, for the employer or company to certify the welder.
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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