Comprehensive Quality Management Through advanced Nondistinctive Testing Techniques for Reliable Performance of Welded Components

Abstract

Welding Technology is an essential ingredient of the industrial world. It is impossible to imagine the industrial scenario without this technology. While it is necessary to use the already established welding technology in the conventional materials and components with more and more stringent control on quality and reliability, it is also necessary that conventional and newer welding technologies are used in newer materials and in newer component designs that are undertaken tor newer applications, and for improving the economy. A good welding technology and practice must ensure that, whatever may be the innovations introduced, there must not be any sacrifice on safety and reliability that are expected from the components. All the efforts made to design a good weld and to fabricate one may simply be wasted If It Is not ascertained and known beforehand that the joint is indeed fit for the purpose. Management of weld quality should be comprehensive, covering design, fabrication, use and discard.