Personnel
Foreword
1 General provisions
1.1 Object
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Nomenclature
1.4 Welding symbols, welding processes, and stress
      relief
1.5 Safety
1.6 References
2 Materials
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Base metals
2.3 Filler metals
3 Design criteria
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Designing for rigidity
3.3 Designing for strength
3.4 Types of loading
3.5 Allowable (maximum) unit stresses
3.6 Fatigue loading
3.7 Combining unit stresses
3.8 Effective weld areas
3.9 Design of full-strength fillet welds
3.10 Stress relief
3.11 Secondary weldments
4 Weld joint design
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Weld joint nomenclature
4.3 Details of groove welds
4.4 Details of fillet welds
4.5 Recommended proportions of weld joint geometry
5 Workmanship
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Qualification
5.3 Preparation of material
5.4 Assembly
5.5 Control of distortion and shrinkage stresses
5.6 Quality of welds
5.7 Fabricator identification
5.8 Finish standards for steel weldments
5.9 Dimensional tolerances
5.10 Flatness
5.11 Squareness and parallelism
5.12 Location of welded members and overall size
6 Stress relief and heat treating
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Stress relief heat treatment
6.3 Other methods of stress relief
7 Inspection and quality control
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Inspection of materials
7.3 Inspection of work and records
7.4 Obligation of the fabricator
7.5 Inspection
8 Modification and repair
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Changes during fabrication prior to stress relief
8.3 Changes after stress relief
8.4 Changes after machining and in use
9 Special requirements - stainless steel
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Designing for corrosion resistance
9.3 Welding of stainless steels
9.4 Thermal stress relief
Appendices
A Processes
B Welding safety considerations
C Commonly used metric conversions
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