Course Catalogue.

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Produce an engineering specification to repair, and modify to make a welded structure
• Understand global comprehension of steel and welding metallurgy
• Understand and specify fundamental rules to avoid weld failures
• Learn about conventional and advanced inspection methods PAUT, DR, CR
• Understand the responsibilities of the owner’s engineer to the CSA W59-18 code requirements

Description
Welding is a complex process and is often misunderstood. Most universities do not teach welding engineering to their engineers; however, engineers are required to assume responsibility for welded structures and bridges per the requirements of CSA W59-18, CSA S-6 or CSA S-16.

This course will give you an opportunity to understand welding and related processes and their application. This course will also teach you how to avoid faulty welds in structures by correctly specifying welding and inspection requirements in your contract documents.

This is an interactive course. You are encouraged to bring your welding questions, problems, and projects to the class. Remember, there are no stupid questions!

Course Outline

• Case histories of weld failures
• Understanding why the welds failed
• Welding metallurgy for steel
• HAZ and its characteristics
• Welding processes and inspection
• Welding requirements of CSA W59, S-6 and S-16 and ASME
• Welding certification per CSA W47.1 code
• Engineer’s responsibility per CSA W59 code
• Advanced inspection techniques
• How COBOTs are changing the welding world
• Applying Lean to welding operations to prevent failures

Who Should Attend
Senior and Junior Mechanical and Civil Engineers • Technicians • Plant and Facility Managers • Supervisors • Operations and Maintenance Personnel • Design Engineers • Consultants and Contractors • Inspection Agencies • Lawyers and Insurance Agents

Course Syllabus

Day 1

• Introduction and needs analysis of participants
• Review of weld failure case histories
• Lessons learnt from case histories to minimize weld failures
• Canadian codes and certification processes: CSA vs AWS standards.
• Steel making, welding metallurgy and the HAZ
• Introduction to Welding and welding processes and code requirements
• Welding defects and their causes - acceptance criteria of Code requirements
• Elaborating Inspection processes - limitations and inspectability of joints
• Mandatory and non-mandatory inspection processes per Code requirements

Day 2

• Scope of CSA welding standards CSA W59, CSA W47.1, CSA W48 and CSA 178.1 & CSA 178.2.
• Canadian Welding Bureau and its mandate to ensure certification to CSA standards
• CGSB qualification of qualified inspectors and CSA 178.1 and CSA 178.2 standards
• Engineers, Supervisors, welders, and Contractor certification to the requirements of CSA W47.1 and W47.2 standards and knowledge base
• CSA W59-13 code, philosophy and make up, clauses 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12
• Engineer's responsibility clauses in CSA W59-18 standard and its implications
• Advanced inspection techniques now permitted in the new CSA W59-18 standard and the engineer's responsibility

Open period for questions and answers for specific questions related to welding problems and solutions