CASTI Guidebook To ASME Section IX - Welding Qualifications (4th Edition)

CASTI Guidebook Series™ - Authors: Michael J. Houle and Richard D. McGuire, 2004 Edition, 394 Pages, 8.5"x 11", Soft Cover

ISBN: 1-894038-80-0 $225.00

Printed Book:
soft cover
8.5"x11"
394 pages

Fourth Edition:
printed January 2005

Authors:
Michael J. Houle
Richard D. McGuire

ISBN:
1-894038-80-0

The new Fourth Edition of the CASTI Guidebook to ASME Section IX - Welding Qualifications covers the 2004 edition of the Section IX Code. It reflects some very important changes to the Section IX Code due to significant changes in the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. The 2004 edition of Section IX has more than 200 variables, many with multiple conditions, for 13 welding processes and special processes. This guide has been prepared to help the Code user understand many of these complex conditions and variables.

The ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, Section IX can be a difficult document to comprehend. This CASTI Guidebook has been prepared for those Code users who need to better understand ASME Section IX. It is filled with practical examples, used to explain ASME Section IX Code rules so that Code users can walk their way through welding procedure qualification requirements. It also contains the finer details of welding procedure specifications to provide clarity, even to the experienced code user. This CASTI Guidebook goes far beyond the literary words of the Code by explaining specific Code paragraphs and related ASME Code Interpretations to provide guidance where a close study of the Code, on its own, may not produce a clear conclusion.

It is written by long serving ASME Section IX code committee members, Michael Houle and Richard McGuire, who have over sixty years of combined experience with ASME Section IX.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Welding Documentation Forms
Chapter 3 - Review of Article I – General, Article II – Procedure, and Article III – Performance
Chapter 4 - Review of Article IV – Welding Data
Chapter 5 - Sample WPS, PQR, and WPQ Documentation
Chapter 6 - How to Prepare and Review a WPS
Chapter 7 - How to Prepare and Review a PQR
Chapter 8 - Testing Requirements for Procedure Qualification
Chapter 9 - Checklist for WPS and PQR
Chapter 10 - How to Prepare and Review a WPQ
Chapter 11 - Testing and Examination Requirements for WPQ
Chapter 12 - Expiration, Revocation, Retests and Renewal of WPQ
Chapter 13 - Welding Variables for Welding Operators
Chapter 14 - Supplementary Essential Variables
Chapter 15 - Review of Article V – Standard Welding Procedures Specifications
Chapter 16 - Miscellaneous
Appendix 1 - Terms and Abbreviations
Appendix 2 - Engineering Data
Appendix 3 - International Standards Organizations, Technical Associations and Societies
Appendix 4 - Sample SWPS ANSI/AWS B21.1-1-026-94
Subject Index
Code Paragraph Index
ASME Interpretations Index