1 Design & Welding Standard For Steel
Buildings in Seismic Area
Time: 8 hours | Date: 29 November
Robert E. Shaw, Jr.
Teacher’s C.V:
Robert E. Shaw, Jr., PE is President of the Steel Structures Technology Center,
Inc., a consulting engineering firm in Howell, Michigan, USA. A graduate civil engineer
from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he began his career in the steel construction
industry in 1973. The SSTC focuses on technical education related to the design,
fabrication, erection and inspection of steel-framed structures, and provides consulting
services in steel construction practices and quality issues, including remediation
of deficient structures. Mr. Shaw is Chairman the International Institute of Welding’s
Commission XV on Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures, and also
chairs its subcommission XV-C on Fabrication. Mr. Shaw is a member of the American
Welding Society D1 Structural Welding Committee, Subcommittee D1Q on Steel responsible
for AWS D1.1, Subcommittee D1L on Seismic Welding responsible for AWS D1.8, Subcommittee
D1R on Strengthening and Repairing Existing Structures, and Task Group D1a on Design.
Workshop’s Contents:
• New AWS and AISC seismic standards
• A variety of standardized fully welded, fully bolted, or a combination of both
beam-to-column connections
• detailed requirements for steel and welding materials,
• construction quality, inspection and nondestructive testing
• Numerous other seismic force resisting systems
• Recommendations for improved connection details and construction to improve seismic
performance that have been developed by Japan.
• These details are based upon the use of circular and rectangular tubular and box
columns, whereas the USA uses wide-flange sections almost exclusively.
• The application of these new welded connection types and new welding details,
materials and quality needs
2 Structural Welding Design
Time: 8 hours | Date: 30 November
Robert E. Shaw, Jr.
Teacher’s C.V:
Robert E. Shaw, Jr., PE is President of the Steel Structures Technology Center,
Inc., a consulting engineering firm in Howell, Michigan, USA. A graduate civil engineer
from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he began his career in the steel construction
industry in 1973. The SSTC focuses on technical education related to the design,
fabrication, erection and inspection of steel-framed structures, and provides consulting
services in steel construction practices and quality issues, including remediation
of deficient structures. Mr. Shaw is Chairman the International Institute of Welding’s
Commission XV on Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures, and also
chairs its subcommission XV-C on Fabrication. Mr. Shaw is a member of the American
Welding Society D1 Structural Welding Committee, Subcommittee D1Q on Steel responsible
for AWS D1.1, Subcommittee D1L on Seismic Welding responsible for AWS D1.8, Subcommittee
D1R on Strengthening and Repairing Existing Structures, and Task Group D1a on Design.
Workshop’s Contents:
• engineer&?s role in welded structures,
• discussion of welding processes and materials used in welding steel structures,
• the engineer&?s role in reviewing welding procedures.
• discussion of the required, recommended and bad details of welded joints.
• The engineer&?s role in establishing weld quality,
• inspection and nondestructive examination
• effect of various weld discontinuities on the performance of weldments.
• designing welded structures subjected to fatigue loading, and welded connections
for tubular members.
3 An Introduction to Welding Quality
Assurance Standard (ISO 3834)
Time: 8 hours | Date: 30 November
David Shackleton
Teacher’s C.V:
Position: Lead Assessor
Qualifications: Bachelor of Metallurgy from University of Sheffield Doctor of Philosophy
from University of Leeds
Experience:
• Technical and Engineering Experience at the Welding Institute
• Industrial Experience at Rockweld and GKN Lincoln Electric
• Consultancy projects since1986
• Assessment of ISO 9001/2 Quality Management System carried out from DNVQA Certification
and surveillance of welding electrodes and fabricating companies, Assessments of
fabricators to ISO 3834 and welder training establishments carried out for TWI certification.
• Peer Assessor for the IIW ANB system for personnel certification.
• Fellow of the Institute of Metals
• Fellow of the Welding Institute,
• Fellow of the Institute of Quality Assurance, Fellow of the Institute of Non Destructive
Testing
Workshop’s Contents:
The International System for the Manufacturers Certification is aimed to comply
with the ISO 3834, based on the European System, existing for almost 10 years. The
EWF EMS Certification Scheme was developed according with the EN 14001, the scheme
covers welding and allied activities as applicable to the Company&?s operations.
The Certification may only be applied to Manufacturers who can demonstrate that
their welding and allied activities are already appropriately controlled and optimized
from the production point of view. One way of demonstrating this is by compliance
with the EWF/IIW ISO 3834 Scheme. ISO 3834 can boost the manufacturing company’s
ability to sell its products in both domestic and overseas markets. Compliance with
ISO 3834 provides a “one-stop-shop” to achieve global recognition of the company’s
capability. Entitled “Quality Requirements for Welding”, the standard provides details
of how to control the various welding-related operations to achieve the desired
quality consistently.
A key feature of the standard is the requirement to ensure that people with welding
responsibilities are competent to discharge those responsibilities. This is achieved
by incorporation of another standard: ISO 14731 “Welding Co-ordination – Tasks and
responsibilities”.
4 LRUT (Long Range Ultrasonic Testing)
Introduction, Application & Demonstration
EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
August 2005 – Present Plant Integrity Ltd – Great Abington, Cambridge shire:
Inspection Engineer
Duties ~ To plan and execute Teletest® Guided Wave pipeline inspections of process
pipe work in Oil
and Gas, Chemical, Nuclear Power and Fluid Transportation sectors within UK and
world-wide.
April 2003 – July 2005 Hansatech Ltd - Cambridge, Cambridge shire:
Production Engineer
Duties ~ Policing and maintaining quality; producing and maintaining documentation;
training and Assessing team members; machine maintenance and process verification.
Customer liaison through
speciality component rework business. Using CAD & Gerber data to produce machine
programs and assembly drawings.
June 2002– March 2003 Hansatech Ltd - Cambridge, Cambridge shire:
Senior Technician
Duties ~ Prototype and specialist assembly of printed circuit boards; X-ray inspection
of solder joints; various levels of inspection at different process stages; training
and assessing team members. February 2001 - June 2002 Hansatech Ltd - Cambridge,
Cambridge shire:
Assembly Technician
Duties ~ Assembling and reworking printed circuit boards.
Workshop’s Contents:
General
The Teletest technology was developed to screen pipe work for metalloss features
such as corrosion & erosion. Originally developed for the inspection of corrosion
under insulation in petrochemical plant pipe work, the technology is equally suited
for application to pipelines including road crossings, bridge piers & poorly accessed
pipe work generally.
Altematively they may be identified for more detailed assessment using conventional
NDT test methods. Teletest is particularly suited to fingerprinting exercises, allowing
the pipe condition to be checked on a periodic basis without the need to remove
the entire insulation.
TThe field reporting threshold is area metalloss equivalent to 9% of the pipe wall
cross-section. Metalloss features have been detected far smaller than this level.
However, a lower reporting level result in an increase in false calls.
Teletest will provide information on the metelloss features in terms of rang from
transducer (or agreed datum) & severity (minor, moderate or severe).
UUp untile the present, long-rang ultrasonic testing, has been unable to distinguish
between a wide shallow flaw & a deep narrow one of similar cross sectional area.
Furthermore, it could not identify the precise location of the flaw around the pipe.
However, with the advent of Teletest Focus TM, these two limitations have, to a
significant extent, been overcome.
Test Range:
The pipe is interrogated first in one direction & then in the other from the transducer
location. Typically ranges of 30m are achieved. Under ideal conditions, this has
gone up to 180m. However, it can be less than 30m, if conditions are unfavorable.
5 Pipeline Integrity Assessment
(Based on NACE Direct Assessment Methodology)
Time: 8 hours | Date: 1 December
Chris Ablitt
Teacher’s C.V:
Designation: Section Manager – Equipment Risk Consulting, Structural Integrity Technology
Group
Academic Qualifications: B.Eng. (Hon) Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Professional Qualifications: Member The Institute of Materials
Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers
CSWIP Plant Inspector
Professional Experience:
• TWI Ltd, UK - Section Manager, Equipment Risk Consulting, Structural Integrity
Technology Group. Responsible for both FFS and RBI assessment projects for pressure
systems in the process industries and energy sector.
• London and Scandinavian Metallurgical, UK Production Engineer, Exothermic Department,
Responsible for the quality and production control of chromium in the Exothermic
Department.
• British Steel, UK Responsible for organisation and control of trial production
runs, materials testing and weld ability trials.
• Other relevant qualifications: CSWIP Plant Inspector
Workshop’s Contents:
The pipeline industry is undergoing changes because of revisions to safety regulations.
These changes include developing standards, recommended practices, and guidelines
that can be used by operators to develop, implement, and validate pipeline-integrity
verification programs. Methods for verifying pipeline integrity include pressure
testing, in-line inspection (ILI), and others, such as a method called Direct Assessment
(DA). Each of these techniques has capabilities and limitations that need to be
considered in developing and validating a pipeline integrity management program.
What is Direct Assessment?
Direct Assessment (DA) methods are processes to assess the condition of pipelines
with respect to external corrosion (EC), internal corrosion (IC), and stress corrosion
cracking (SCC). Each of the DA methods uses techniques to determine the most likely
locations for corrosion. These locations are excavated and directly assessed. If
these locations most likely to have suffered corrosion are not a threat to pipeline
integrity, the remaining section of pipe less likely to have suffered corrosion
is considered to also not be a threat.
6 An Introduction to Successful Repair
Welding
Time: 8 hours | Date: 1 December
M.R.SoltanMohammadi
Teacher’s C.V:
• M.S in the field of Material Science-Welding, Tehran University
• Member of welding committee in Scientifically-practical University
• Consultant & lecturer in Repair welding field & material selection
• Manager of several industrial research projects in welding field
• Lecturer & examiner of IWE & IWIP courses
Reza Kalantarian
Teacher’s C.V:
• B.S of Mechanical engineering, Ahvaz University
• International welding engineer (IWE) from SLV Institute, Germany
• International Welding Inspector (IWIP) from SLV Institute, Germany
• Central workshop manager of Khuzestan Steel Complex
• Repair plan designer of defected equipment & parts at Khuzestan Steel Complex
Workshop’s Contents:
Repair welding is one of the suitable ways to the maintenance cost. In this technique
we use from suitable welding procedure to remove defects that has occurred at manufacturing
process or other service. For repairing the latter we should know the effects of
services on material properties. Some of topics subjects as follow:
• WPS & PQR for repair welding
• Repair method selection
• Repairing based on risk investigation
• Feasibility study method in repair welding
• Repaired part inspection
7 RBI (Risk Based Inspection)
Time: 8 hours | Date: 1 December
Shervin Maleki
Teacher’s C.V:
Position: Project Leader, Asset Integrity Management, Structural Integrity Technology
Group
Qualifications: MSc, Material and Science Engineering, University of London
BSc, Material Engineering and Metallurgy, Shiraz University, Iran
Professional Qualifications: July 2007- Welding Equipments and Processes- TWI
July 2006- Fitness for Service (FFS) acc to API 579- TWI
July 2006- Risk- Based Inspection (RBI) acc. to API 580- TWI
2003- Welding and Coating inspection certification- ITS
Experience:
I am working at TWI, Cambridge since the beginning 2008.
Before that I have been working in Malaysian offices in South East Asia as project
engineer working on risk-based assessment, Fitness-for-service and failure investigations
on Kapar Power Station and BAPCO Upstream.
I have experience in both Marketing and lecturing of the TWI risk-based assessment
courses.
Workshop’s Contents:
Goal setting safety legislation for pressure systems was first introduced in 1989
and retained in the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR) 2000.
This has enabled a move towards inspection strategies based on the risk of failure.
Improved targeting and timing of inspections offer industry the potential benefits
of:
• Improved management of Health and Safety and other risks of plant failure.
• Timely identification and repair or replacement of deteriorating equipment.
• Cost savings by eliminating ineffective inspection, extending inspection intervals
and greater plant availability. Owners and users of plant have the option of managing
the integrity of their plant and planning inspection based on risk assessments.
They need to be able to demonstrate that the risk assessment and inspection planning
processes are being implemented in an effective and appropriate manner.
Inspection is usually one part of an integrated integrity management strategy for
managing the risk of failure containing other control measures as may be appropriate.
These normally include routine and preventative maintenance, and the inspection
and maintenance functions are being increasingly linked within a common framework.
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