Welding Inspection & Testing
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Welding Inspection & Testing Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Welding Inspection & Testing (subject code 4355505) as prescribed for FT · Semester 5 divides the course into 3 units, covering 44 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4355505)Unit 1 Basics of welding inspection, testing & discontinuities.
- 1.1. Scope, Definition, Application
- 1.2. Comparison of Welding Symbol with written explanation.
- 1.3. Basic elements of Testing Symbols as per AWS A2.4
- 1.4. Examples of typical NDT symbols.
- 1.5. Basic Testing Symbols
- 1.6. Illustration of Welding & Testing Symbols.
- 1.7. Ethical and essential requirements for the Welding Inspector.
- 1.8. Quality Assurance for WI&T.
- 1.9. Classification of welding related discontinuities
- 1.10. Desirable, acceptable and unacceptable fillet weld profiles. Welding Inspection & Testing Course Code: 4355505
- 1.11. Acceptable and unacceptable Butt weld profiles.
- 1.12. Weldment & related discontinuities. (Porosity, slag Inclusion, tungsten inclusions, incomplete fusion, inadequate Joint Penetration, undercut, cracks) Unit: II WPS, WPQ, PQR
- 2.1. Description, Application important details, Example of Qualification WPS.
- 2.2. Preparation of sample joints
- 2.3. Testing of representative samples
- 2.4. Evaluation of overall preparation, welding testing & end results
- 2.5. Changes in Qualified procedure
- 2.6. Approval of Test and WPS
- 2.7. Welding performance qualification
- 2.8. Performance qualification requirements
- 2.9. Test specimen
- 2.10. Testing of qualification welds
- 2.11. Qualification records
- 2.12. Standardization of tests
- 2.13. Relation of qualification tests to welder training
- 2.15. Sample welder qualification test record Unit: III Destructive tests
- 3.1. Tensile test: Introduction, preparation of test specimen, test procedure, results
- 3.2. Bend test: Introduction, purpose, types of tests, specimens & procedure.
- 3.3. Impact test: Introduction, types, procedure, results
- 3.4. Nick break test: Purpose, test specimen, procedure
- 3.5. Hardness test: Purpose, types, machines, procedure
- 3.6. Etch test: Introduction, types, concept & purpose, preparation of test specimen
Unit 2 NDT Methods (VT, LPT, MPT)
- 4.1. Comparison of destructive & nondestructive test
- 4.2. Visual inspection: basic principle, defects detected, optical aids, application
- 4.3. Liquid penetrant testing: principle, procedure, testing materials, testing methods, sensitivity, application, advantages, limitation, codes & standards. Welding Inspection & Testing Course Code: 4355505
- 4.4. Magnetic particle testing: definition & principle, magnetizing techniques, procedure, equipment, sensitivity, advantages, limitation, codes & standards.
Unit 3 NDT Methods (UT, ET, RT, LT, Phased array)
- 5.1. Ultrasonic testing: Introduction, principle, properties of sound beam, transducers, classification of UT techniques, techniques for normal beam inspection, techniques for angle beam inspection, equipments, modes of display, advantages, limitations, application, codes & standards.
- 5.2. Eddy current testing: principle, metal properties & its effect, instrumentation, techniques, sensitivity, advantages, limitations, applications.
- 5.3. Radiographic testing: principle, radiation sources, effect of radiation on film, procedure, inspection techniques, advantages, limitations, application, typical examples.
- 5.4. Leak testing: measurement of leakage, bubble leak testing, helium leak detection.
- 5.5. Phased array testing (Introduction, principle, advantages & dis advantages)
- 5.6. Comparison of NDT methods
- 5.7. Selection of NDT of methods
- 5.8. Codes & standards for NDT: Meaning of codes, standard, specification, procedures, national & international standards for NDT