As for the technical examination for welder who would engage to welding corrosion resistance aluminium alloys which are to be used in the hulls of warships and boats at the Defense Agency it was once proposed by the Technical Department of the Marine Headquarters of the said Agency in February 1955 and has been in force so far.
This standard involves the following:i) 2 pieces of test specimen each for tensile test and guided bend test, cut off from butt welding test specimen.
ii) Test specimen for tensile strength of the crisscross fillet welding, and the examination was erected in conformity with a given method, the fitness of welders being judged from its result.
However, the welding method of test specimen and the range applicable for the qualification have to agreat extent a preponderance of doing the procedure test on spot and is considered slightly complex for the technical examination.
In the early part of 1960, the expenses to prepare the revised standard of technical examination for welders who may engage of welding corrosion resistance aluminium alloys had been subsidized from the Marine Head- quarters of the Defense Agency. Simultaneously, a subsidy had been provided from the Light Metal Society.
Thus, the Engineering Work Standard Revision Sub-committee had been established in the Committee of Light Metals for Shipbuilding Industry and started to make a revised draft.
The sub-committee has discussed several times in their conventions a draft made in pursuant to ASME. regardless the previous standard, as well as the drafts propounded by each members of the sub-committee.
As the result, all tests which are considered possible technically have been carried out and reviewed minutely, arriving to the most appropriate to judge and discriminate as well as simplified examination method has been selected. In order to perform practically the selected method 399 test specimens (237 pcs butt welding, 162 pcs Fillet welding) have been made out by 12 welders who have different abilities.
For the butt welding the following tests and inspection were carried out:
External appearance inspection,
X-ray inspection,
Tensile test,
Guided bend test.
For the fillet welding:
External appearance inspection,
Inspection of fillet fracture.
As the above mentioned result, a draft for welders technical examination has been approved by the Marin Headquarters Department of the Defense Agency on March 15, 1961.
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