® Welding Procedure Guide An easy to follow guide covering the preparation of welding procedure data sheets © Copyright 2008 CWB Group - Industry Services ® © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Revised September 2008 All rights reserved. CWB Group 1-800-844-6790 www.cwbgroup.org ® TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Welding Engineering Standards 3 3.0 Welding Procedure Specifcation (WPS) 3 4.0 Welding Procedure Data Sheet (WPDS) 4 4.1 BLOCK 1 (General Information) 6 4.2 BLOCK 2 (Process information) 7 4.3 BLOCK 3 (Joint information) 8 4.4 BLOCK 4 (Technical data) 11 4.5 BLOCK 5 (Joint preparation) 13 4.6 BLOCK 6 (Base and Filler material) 14 4.7 BLOCK 7 (Welding details) 16 4.8 BLOCK 8 (Final remarks) 20 5.0 Submission Of Welding Procedures 23 6.0 Review And Approval Of Welding Procedures 24 7.0 Sample Welding Procedure Data Sheets 26 © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services ii © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® 1.0 Introduction This guide has been prepared to assist welding personnel with the preparation of welding procedures required as part of their company certifcation to CSA Standards W47.1, W47.2 and W186. The following three documents will be described: (a) Welding Engineering Standards (Note: Only required for W47.2) (b) Welding Procedure Specifcations c) Welding Procedure Data Sheets There will be a brief description of the frst two documents; however, this guide will focus on the preparation of welding procedure data sheets. Each item on the welding procedure data sheet will be described and guidance will be provided to complete each section. © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 1 WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® 2.0 Welding Engineering Standards Welding engineering standards cover the design of welded joints encountered by the fabricator and prepared primarily for the fabricator’s engineering and drafting personnel. The welding engineering standards typically include: (a) Illustrated profles of each typical joint intended for use, showing: (i) The type of joint (eg, butt, lap, tee, corner, edge); (ii) The type of weld; (iii) The geometry of the preparation and ft-up; (iv) The standard welding symbol; (v) The range of thickness; and (b) Minimum permissible sizes of fllet and partial penetration groove welds. Welding symbols shall be as shown in AWS Standard A2.4. Sample welding engineering standards are available on our website www.cwbgroup.org 3.0 Welding Procedure Specifcation (WPS) All companies applying or certifed to CSA Standards W47.1, W47.2 or W186 are required to prepare and submit welding procedure specifcations to the CWB for acceptance. A welding procedure specifcation (WPS) sets broad guidelines for the shop and feld welding practice of the fabricator for each anticipated combination of essential variables. Welding parameters and ranges are specifed and used to prepare the associated welding procedure data sheets. © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 2 WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® The company shall have welding procedure specifcations for each welding process in use, outlining the general welding procedure to be followed in the construction of weldments built in accordance with the governing design or manufacturing standard, or both. Welding procedure specifcations submitted for acceptance should cover as a minimum the items specifed in Appendix D of CSA Standard W47.1 or Appendix A of CSA Standard W47.2, as applicable. Each welding procedure specifcation shall include applicable essential variables. All welding procedure specifcations shall be submitted to the Bureau for acceptance and when stamped as accepted shall be considered as registered with the Bureau. Sample welding procedure specifcations are available on our website www.cwbgroup.org 4.0 Welding Procedure Data Sheet (WPDS) A welding procedure data sheet (WPDS) is a document, used in conjunction with a WPS, detailing the welding parameters and ranges for welding a specifc joint, over a range of thicknesses and weld sizes, as illustrated on the data sheet. The following is the standard welding procedure data sheet form suggested by the CWB, however, other welding procedure data sheet formats may be used. Each item on the data sheet will be described and guidance on the completion of the form will be given. Common errors in completing the form will be identifed. © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 3 WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 4 WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® 4.1 BLOCK 1 (General Information) Company name and address Enter the complete company name and address in this section. If the data sheets are to be used by two or more certifed plants within the same company the applicable plants need to be identifed in the documentation submitted. WPDS No. Each company should have its own method of numbering welding procedure data sheets. This can range from a relatively simple consecutive number system to one that identifes the process, position, groove type and electrode. Each welding procedure data sheet number should be unique so that the WPDS can be easily referenced on production schedules, work orders, shop drawings etc. Date and Revision Enter the date the welding procedure data sheet was prepared and the revision number. Reference Standards Some welding standards that may be referenced are: W47.1 – Certifcation of Companies for Fusion Welding of Steel W59 – Welded Steel Construction (Metal Arc Welding) W186 – Welding of Reinforcing Bars in Reinforced Concrete Construction W47.2 – Certifcation of Companies for Fusion Welding of Aluminum W59.2 – Welded Aluminum Construction AWSD1.1 – Structural Welding Code - Steel AWSD1.3 – Structural Welding Code – Sheet Steel AWSD1.6 – Structural Welding Code – Stainless Steel A common combination is W47.1 and W59. For certifed companies, there must always be a certifcation standard stated (eg. W47.1, W47.2,W186) plus a “Construction” standard (eg. W59, W59.2, D1.3, D1.6). © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 5 WELDING PROCEDURE PREPARATION ® Reference WPS Record the welding procedure specifcation number that applies to this data sheet. Some common mistakes with Block 1: • The company name and address are not completed. • More than one data sheet has the same identifcation number. • No reference code is specifed. • Reference codes are specifed that have different qualifcation rules and essential variables. For example W59 and D1.3. 4.2 BLOCK 2 (Process information) Welding Processes The welding process to be used should be specifed in this section. If two welding processes are used to weld the joint they can be each be entered in the areas identifed “1” and “2”. Some of the common processes used are listed below with their corresponding letter designations: Process Letter Designation Shielded Metal Arc Welding SMAW Gas Metal Arc Welding GMAW Flux Cored Arc Welding FCAW Metal Cored Arc Welding MCAW Gas Tungsten Arc Welding GTAW Submerged Arc Welding SAW Plasma Arc Welding PAW Electroslag Welding ESW Electrogas Welding EGW Stud Welding SW The letter designation may be used to identify the process. Full details about the various welding processes can be found in the CWB modules. © Copyright CWB Group - Industry Services Page 6