Visual Inspection Workshop
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Monday, November 16 - Tuesday, November 17, 2009
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $550 - Nonmember: $685
Registration Code: W29
Room N135
A 16-hour course for CWI exam candidates to review the basic concepts and applications of visual inspection. After a discussion of the limitations and advantages of visual inspection, types of weld data that may be obtained by visual inspection are presented and discussed. Includes the many types of discontinuities encountered during the visual inspection of welds. To help the prospective CWI be better prepared for the Part “B” Practical portion of the exam, common tools used for visual inspection are presented and discussed: a machinist’s scale, dial calipers, micrometers, fillet weld gages, the Palmgren gage, and the V-WAC Undercut gage. Students will use these gages to make measurements on weld replicas. A sample weld specification containing acceptance criteria is presented and discussed, after which students use the specification and visual inspection tools to evaluate the weld replicas using a series of specific questions and scenarios.
By attending, you can learn:
- How to use weld measuring instruments
- Compliance to a specific code
- Do’s and don’ts of documentation
- When a discontinuity is OK
- When a defect is rejectable
- Why visual inspection can be the most effective NDE technique
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