Umesh
This Golden Welds and the use of Section VIII for piping (falling
under the B31 jurisdiction) in lieu of the ASME B31 is something new
to me. The engineering practice in Australia as far as code compliance
is concerned is - shoudl i say different.
Best Regards
- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "umesh k.n." <umesh_kn@...> wrote:
>
> Such tie in welds which cannot be hydrotested are tested with 100%
radiography (preferebly) or any other NDE as accepted by client.
> Such welds are called "Golden Welds"
> As we have seperate piping codes (31.3 or 31.1 etc) Section VIII is
applied to piping at very few instances
>
>
> Rgs,
> Umesh Ken.,Senior Piping Project Engineer,
> BECHTEL AUSTRALIA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
>
Received on Sat Feb 02 05:22:00 2008