ASME Certified Pressure Vessel Welding records

[dazz]

Hi
This is a question for pro-welders who do welding that needs to be verified, NDT, and records kept for pressure vessels and critical work.

I am interested to know how you keep track of all the individual welds and metal records. Do you use folders for paper records or do you scan them and record all the details in a spreadsheet or data base?

Dazz

[snoeproe]

dazz
Generaly both.
You, yourself will have all your qualifications on paper/card and the pressure vessel agency you are qualified with will have their own coppies filed away somewhere on a database.
Now, if you are a pressure vesel qualitied boiler maker making critical welds on a high pressure steam boiler on a very large project, all your welds will kept track of by the company your working for. In the event of a failed "squeeze" test on the boiler. Your weld will pont back to you.

[LayoutMan]

wondering what happen if a ''critical'' weld fail and they track the welder who done that job, what they tell him ? is there any epic story about that ?

[snoeproe]

Take a boiler maker for example.
Before he gets to strike an arc on any part of a boiler, he will have already passed a test on the material he is welding. Xray passed. So, you know he can do the job. Can't pass an xray? You dont get to weld on the boiler, simple as that.
Now, we are all human and a mistake can and does happen.
Boiler fails a squeeze test? (and this happens), de pressurise the boiler, drain the water, open it back up and reweld the bad joint. No epic story.

[dazz]

Originally Posted by snoeproe

dazz
Generaly both.
You, yourself will have all your qualifications on paper/card and the pressure vessel agency you are qualified with will have their own coppies filed away somewhere on a database.
Now, if you are a pressure vesel qualitied boiler maker making critical welds on a high pressure steam boiler on a very large project, all your welds will kept track of by the company your working for. In the event of a failed "squeeze" test on the boiler. Your weld will pont back to you.

I am interested in the data base. Is there software out there that I can buy to mange the records?

Dazz

[Nad1651]

Hi
If the pressure vessel ordered by U stamp, so the pressure vessel manufacture must be ASME stamp holder which already passed the joint review by ASME designee and AIA (Authorized Inspection Agency).
for more detail review
http://www.inspection-for-industry.c...ification.html

This article explain detail of certification process for pressure vessel manufactures

manufacture responsible for sound quality control as per ASME Sec 8 Div Appendix 10, one of the requirement is welding which need to be monitored by authorized inspector

it is also is necessary the welding recorded and kept another requirement is that radiography films must be kept for 5 years.

for more detail review following articles:

http://www.inspection-for-industry.c...section-8.html

http://www.inspection-for-industry.c...re-vessel.html

http://www.inspection-for-industry.c...re-vessel.html

[Fegenbush]

Originally Posted by Nad1651

it is also is necessary the welding recorded and kept another requirement is that radiography films must be kept for 5 years.

Not to be picking at nits, but 10-13 (ASME Section VIII Div 1) specifies a 3 year record retention period, and only the RT reports (or reader sheets) need to be maintained, not the films. The films themselves only need to be kept until the AI signs the data report (ref: UW-51)