Pipe Welding Procedures

Reinforces the welder's understanding of procedures with material on: heat input and distribution essentials of shielded metal-arc technology distortion pipe welding defects welding safety essentials of welding metallurgyqualification of the welding procedure and the welder Emphasizes procedures used to weld both thick-wall and thin-wall pipe by the shielded metal-arc process, and an entire chapter is devoted to root bead welding by the gas tungsten-arc process.