Who We Are and What Do We Do
Who We Are
As Welded Engineering Services specializes in the qualification of welding and repair procedures, or code interpretations.
AWES employs degreed welding engineers from the Ohio State University and others, professional engineers (PE) licensed in multiple states (TX, NM, OH, MI, PA, NM), and certified welding inspectors (CWI), and on D1 code committees.
Our senior staff of engineers has worked in the following industries for many years:
- Steel Bridges and Civil Work
- Nuclear Industry
- Offshore Subsea Pipelines
- Heavy Steel Structural Fabrication
- Vessel Fabrication
- Pressure Piping
- Cladding
- Offshore Structures
What Does AWES Do
Principally we provide welding engineering services.
What are welding engineering services?
Welding Engineering Services are basically anything dealing with welding. It can range from writing and qualifying welding procedures, qualifying welders, addressing the cause and correction of defects, repair procedures and code interpretations.
How does AWES work
Typically AWES only performs the Welding Engineering portion for a client or the “secret sauce” for the creation of welding procedures. This approach allows the client to utilize resources it already has for quality control, material processing, welding, shipping and receiving without paying the additional costs to an outside company for activities it can already perform.
Codes and Standards
AWES has extensive experience with domestic and international codes and standards, this is a brief list of common codes:
- American Welding Society (AWS) codes as the D1 series (D1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section IX and B31 series
- American Petroleum Institute (API) 1104, RP582, 6A, 16A
- DNV GL-ST-F101 (previously DNV-OS-F101)
- NACE MR0175
And Many More
Who are awes's clients
The small shop
Our most numerous client that commonly has a miscellaneous metals shop and has taken on a project that requires welding procedures qualified to a particular code. We typically provide an overview to the code or specification and depending on the scope write welding procedures and provide instruction for the qualification of welders, write the welder qualifications. For more demanding projects, the qualification of welding procedures and writing of procedure qualification records.
The mid size fabricator
Most mid size fabricators have qualified welders and often have existing weld qualifications already, but they are taking on a project that has more demanding requirements or entering a different industry. For example, growing from prequalified D1.1 structural procedures to qualified procedures or a pressure piping/vessel shop moving to NACE requirements that requires hardness testing or high alloyed materials such as duplex stainless steel or nickel based alloys such as Inconel 600 or 625.
The large fabricator or OEM
These sophisticated clients have engineers on staff and multiple existing qualifications on file. The typical support provided to these clients is when a design change introduces a material or welding process that they are not familiar with and schedule requires outside expertise to assist on ramping up. Another common request is assistance with a unique repair or qualification, such as a temper bead repair.
Design and engineering firms
Most design and engineering firms are versed in the structural and pressure design and analysis but may not have welding expertise in house. A common request for assistance is, for example, detailing a repair methodology or reviewing fabricators submittals for code compliance.
Owners
Owners typically are well versed in the use and operating of their equipment or structure, but may not be well aware and have existing talent that is fluent in the fabrication or repair of their asset. Typically we provide the welding engineering support for the project during either initial fabrication or repairs or modifications are required.
What problems do clients have
Common Problems
Our clients common problems are varied but here are the most common:
- Code interpretations
- Interpretations of client specifications and drawings
- How to qualify welding procedures and writing the procedures
- Filler metal choices for base metals and dissimilar welds
- Test matrices for qualifications
- NACE MR0175 compliance welding procedures and qualifications
- Low iron (Fe) overlay procedures
- Repair procedures
- Hardness requirements
- Distortion mitigation methods and techniques