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| ASME Section IX - Carbon/Alloy Steels Welding Codes and Metallurgy - for Engineers, Inspectors, and Experienced Tradesmen |
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September 21-24, 2010 Price: $1,895.00 Earn: 3.2 CEUs |
Location: Holiday Inn Express 10010 104 Street Edmonton AB T5J 0Z1 Canada 780-423-2450 Book discounted room accomodations |
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Objectives: This is an introductory course to provide the basic understanding of the proper use and interpretation of ASME B&PV Section IX Code - Welding Qualifications, this course starts with a 2-day review of the Code and the welding portions of related ASME construction codes (Section I, VIII-1, B31.1, and B31.3), followed by one day of studying the welding metallurgy that ASME IX is based on. It is also intended to prepare exam candidates for the ABSA Welding Examiner Paper #4 on Regulations and Codes and most parts of Paper #2 covering properties and structures of metals, welding metallurgy and material specifications (i.e., steel manufacturing will not be covered). Accreditation: Each participant will receive a certificate with 3.2 Continuing Education Units accredited by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Who Should Attend: Inspectors, welders, welding supervisors, quality control personnel, technologists, and engineers involved with new welding procedure and welder qualifications for new fabrication, repairs, maintenance, and inspection for pressure vessel or piping. This course is also designed to assist ABSA Welding Examiner, Pressure Equipment Inspector and CSA W178.2 exam candidates, although it is not a prerequisite that you be an exam candidate. Topics: Safety Codes Acts - overview of Pressure Equipment Safety Regulations - Pressure Welders Regulation General Review to ASME IX - general requirements - procedure qualifications - performance qualifications - welding data ASME Section IX - WPS, PQR, WPQ Reviews - several workshops will be conducted to allow each participant to develop the required skills to review WPS, PQR, and WPQ documents Basic Metallurgy of Carbon and Alloy Steels - basic carbon steel metallurgy (crystalline structures, grains, microstructures: ferrite, pearlite, banite, martensite) - using the Fe-Fe3C phase diagram in practical terms - common heat treatments for carbon steel and affect on mechanical properties (annealing, normalizing, quench and tempering) - ductile to brittle behaviour of steels - grain size (ASTM No.), microstructures, low temperature notch toughness, and anisotropy - alloying steels and their effects on hardenability and weldability - material test reports and what they really mean Welding Metallurgy of Carbon and Alloy Steels - the various weld zones and metallurgical heat affected zones using fundamental principles of welding metallurgy - use of carbon equivalence to predict weldability - hydrogen assisted cracking related to welding (toe cracking, cold cracking, delayed cracking, HAZ cracking, and underbead cracking) - preheating and postweld heat treat in practical terms to avoid cracking and improve weldability Base Metal and Filler Metal Specifications (ASME Section II Parts A and C) - classification of steels - UNS, SAE, ASTM, ASME - ASME SA-106, SA-516, SA-333, SA-387, and SA-312 - AWS classification of filler metals, SFA No., F No., and A No. - ASME SFA-5.1 and SFA-5.5 Developing a WPS/PQR for ASME Sec. VIII-1, B31.1, B31.3 - each attendee will participate in a group workshop to write new construction and maintenance welding procedures in accordance with ASME Section VIII - Pressure Vessels, ASME B31.1 - Power Boilers and ASME B31.3 - Process Piping - these welding procedures will be reviewed and discussed in detail during the class Assignments, Tutorials and Workshop: Several workshops covering WPS, PQR and WPQ sample exam questions will be conducted, with take-home assignments handed out at the class. A review of the take home assignments will be covered the following mornings. Each attendee will participate in a group workshop to write new construction and maintenance welding procedures in accordance with ASME Section I - Power Boilers, ASME Section VIII - Pressure Vessels, ASME B31.1 - Power Boilers and ASME B31.3 - Process Piping. These welding procedures will be reviewed and discussed in detail during the class. Required Code Documents: All participants must bring the ASME Section IX Code to this class. ABSA Welding Examiner Paper #4 exam candidates must bring all code sections required in Paper #4 to the evening tutorials. These code documents can be purchased from CASTI. (See below.) A course notebook will be provided to all participants by CASTI. Purchasing Code Documents: Individuals who are ABSA Welding Examiner Paper #4 exam candidates may require code documents. Some of the code documents required for ABSA Welding Examiner certification are available to CASTI course registrants at a special discounted package price. These documents are available as a package only, not on an individual basis. CASTI is licensed to sell the document packages only to individuals registered in this course, not to the general public. Note: Only the specific portions of the Codes, Standards and documents required for the exam are supplied in the document package. Useful Links: - Information on ABSA Welding Examiner Certificate of Competency (ABSA Website) - ABSA Welding Examiner Syllabus - Exam Guarantee Policy |
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| About the Instructor | ||
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John E. Bringas, P.Eng. is a professional engineer who has practiced metallurgical engineering and inspection for 31 years. He is one of only 22 people in the world certified as an API 510, 570, 653, 571, 577, and 580 inspector. He is also an AWS Certified Welding Inspector and former CGSB certified NDE inspector in UT and RT. He is a long time committee member of ASTM A01 (Steels), A05 (Coated Steels), B02 (Nonferrous Alloys), NACE STG 32 (Oil and Gas Production-Metallurgy) and STG 36 (Process Industry-Materials), SAE Division 1 (Carbon and Alloy Steels), and Canadian Representative on ISO TC 17-SC 4 (Steels). He is the author of the ASTM Handbook of Comparative World Steel Standards and the CASTI Metals Data Books. Mr. Bringas has engineering work experience in the steel making, foundry, consulting, refinery, pipeline and petrochemical industries and is the founder of Codes and Standards Training Institute and CASTI Publishing Inc. |
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