Mike Smart, IFPA chairman, explained that this decision was taken in the interest of ensuring consistent quality installations. IFPA was formed by SAPPMA to expand regulation of the plastic pipe ...

“Introduction to Welding Processes” provides a comprehensive overview of the most commonly used welding processes, including oxyfuel welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, ...

The operator's dexterity has a real influence upon laser welding quality but this can be reduced when the choice of welding parameters has been optimized. It is possible to avoid the empiric choice of ...

Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...

Perhaps the largest variable is the individual performing the welding. “As with everything, you have from A to Z in terms of capabilities,” says Duane Miller, welding design engineer, Lincoln Electric ...

Most combined cycle professionals understand that a joint between grade 91 steel and an austenitic stainless steel is considered a dissimilar-metal weld. For that reason, it requires special welding ...

The Installation and Fabrication Plastics Pipe Association (IFPA) has announced that it will be qualifying welding procedures and weld jobs performed by its members going forward. Mike Smart, IFPA ...

Prepares the student for certification in shielded metal arc, GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding), GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) and other welding processes through study of the welding procedures and ...

Innovative welding techniques can produce consistently better-quality joints. Special alloys, appropriate pre- and post-weld heat treatment, and proper weld procedures can all help prevent ...