Using AWS D1.6 Stainless Steel Prequalified Welding Procedures
Most welding professionals are familiar with AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code – Steel and its allowance for prequalified welding procedures when welding carbon steel. Prequalification under AWS D1.1 is widely used to save time, reduce cost, and establish code-compliant welding procedures without qualification testing. What far fewer people realize is that AWS D1.6 Structural Welding […]
How Prequalified Welding Procedures Are Misapplied in Production
When followed correctly, prequalified welding procedures are one of the most reliable tools available for producing consistent, code-compliant welds. Yet many quality issues attributed to “bad procedures” are not failures of prequalification at all—they are failures of application and control during production. Understanding how prequalified welding procedures are commonly misapplied helps prevent these issues and […]