We talk about type of welds & weld joints, the talk on welding will be incomplete if we don’t talk about weld defect!
Some weld defects are visible, some are visible with aide & some are invisible and need extra process to reveal them.
Before we go into process of different methods to see those defect, one must first know what are those defects?
Let me show you some defects & with their names
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Spatter
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Incomplete Fusion
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Incomplete Penetration
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Overlap
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Porosity
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Undercut
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Underfill
Some are Visiable in Radiography!
Burn Thru
Cluster Porosity
Excessive Reinforcement
External Undercut
Internal Undercut
lack of penetration
lack of fusion
Porosity
Suck Back
Tungsten Inclusion
in my next post, will discuss, i ndetail about the Methodology to see these cracks!
I'm writing my Level 1 visual inspection ticket this Wednesday and I thought your pictures on weld defects/faults were very helpful! Thanks so much for posting!
Thanks Pictures Information,
Anang Yuniawan
Indonesian
All Best Regards
I am preparing for my CWB visual Inspection and found your pictures helpful. Maybe some explanation and to the differences between some of the similar defects like Undercut, Underhill and Incomplete penetration will be of further help. But I am very grateful.
Excellent Pictures, the radiographs next to the weld defects are excellent, thanks!
Good exemples thx
Plenty people are ruining this trade,they have no idea about how a rod burns or even know different polarity the CWB must stop this,when they come on site they only know undercut
I agree with Anonymous Friday, August 21, 2015
This is how exactly welding is done. Thanks for sharing.
Great,
I observed how you explain Non-Destructive Testing, I'm working with a company for 30 years and we also use these common methods.