Basic course:
Introduction to fundamental of joining process -fusion and solid-state welding, brazing, soldering, thermal cutting, joint configuration, material and process selection, welding procedures, equipment specification.
List of lectures:
1. Welding Basics, Welding Safety.
2. Welding Procedure Specification (WPS), Welding Procedure Qualification Record (WPQR).
3. Welded Joint Design.
4. Weld Thermal Cycles, Heat Affected Zone.
5. Fundamental of Steel Weldability.
6. Joining Processes (Fusion and Solid-State Welding)
7. Oxyfuel Gas Welding (311).
8. Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW, MMAW-111).
9. Gas-Metal Arc Welding (GMAW-135,131), Gas-Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW-141).
10. Electric Resistance Welding (ERW).
11. Submerged Arc Welding (SAW-121).
12. Thermal Cutting: Oxy-Acetylene Cutting, Carbon Air and Plasma Arc Cutting.
13. Weld Defects-Imperfections in Welds, Non-Destructive Evaluation.
14. Introduction to Brazing and Soldering.
List of exercises:
1. Welding safety, welded joints design. Project No.1- Welded Construction Design.
2. Base material selection, option for selecting filler material, welding parameter selection.
3. Demonstration basic welding processes (welding laboratory).
4. Welded joint design.
5. Weld thermal cycles, preheat temperature. Project No 2. Welding Process
Specification (pWPS).
6. Welding Process Specification (pWPS).
7. Quiz-Welding Basics.