ADVANCED

WELDING AND JOINING

TECHNOLOGIES
for
Welding Engineer (WE)
First Edition

[Japanese Version]
Edited by
The Japan Welding Society

[English Version]
Translated and Prepared by
The Japan Welding Engineering Society
 [English Version]
Translated and Prepared by
The Japan Welding Engineering Society
(Supervision Committee)
Chairperson: Takayoshi Ohji

Advanced Welding and Joining Technologies

Published under the English translation rights authorized by the Japan Welding Society
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Preface

Welding technologies are indispensable for fabricating such structures in almost all
industries as steel buildings, ships and offshore structures, heavy machinery, pressure
vessels, and power generation machinery. The quality of welded structures is significantly
affected by the weld quality. This is obvious from many examples of damaged welded
structures. Welding personnel, therefore, are required to ensure sufficient weld qualities
for the first priority and to be cognizant of this thoroughly at all times.
In order to ensure weld qualities, of course, sufficient knowledge of welding
technologies and competence in actual implementation are required. To assure a sufficient
level of these knowledge and competence objectively, the welding personnel certification
schemes are available. Because the original standard of the ISO 9000 series defined the
welding process as “a special process” and then ISO 3834 defined quality requirements for
welding, welding technologies and certification of technical levels have been recognized to
be more important.
The Japan Welding Engineering Society (JWES) has continued the certification scheme
of welding coordination personnel in accordance with WES 8103 since 1983. This has
contributed by a great amount to the improvement in welding technologies and to the
certification of technical levels in Japan. In addition the JWES has made efforts
continuously for the education in terms of welding technology, putting a high priority on
the technology. In overseas countries, too, the maintenance of the technical level of
welding personnel had early been taken as an important matter due to the significance of
the welding technology. Particularly in the EU countries, the need of international
certification of welding personnel was emphasized, and the significance of developing an
internationally consistent certification scheme for the welding personnel levels was
pointed out. As a result the European certification scheme for the international welding
personnel levels was established and has been developed. This scheme has been
transferred to the International Institute of Welding (IIW) to realize the international
certification scheme. In Japan, based on this international scheme, the internationally
viable certification scheme for welding personnel was established in 2000, which was
organized putting the JWES at the main position.
In the IIW scheme the need of sufficient education of welding personnel in accordance
with the adequate syllabus has been recognized in order to improve their welding
knowledge and competence including the capability of application and development. The
JWES examined to develop and employ an education system based on this syllabus for the
education per WES 8103. In 1999 the welding coordination personnel certification scheme
of the JWES was accredited by the Japan Accreditation Board (JAB). This scheme
classified the levels of welding coordination personnel into Level 2, Level 1, and Senior
Level (corresponds to traditional SWE) and achieved the consistency with the IIW scheme,
taking into account the feature of the Japanese traditional scheme. Lately, as per the WES
8103:2008, the names of levels have been changed respectively to “Associate Welding
Engineer,” “Welding Engineer“ and “Senior Welding Engineer.”
For the education of welding coordination personnel of individual levels, the special
teaching materials for Welding Engineer and Associate Welding Engineer have been edited
and used, for example, for training courses implemented by the JWES. These special
teaching materials have also been used as valuable reference books by general welding
personnel. By contrast, for Senior Welding Engineer, no special teaching material has
been edited but various separate teaching materials have been used. To develop a special
teaching material for Senior Welding Engineer that is consistent with the IIW scheme, the

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Education Committee of the JWES commissioned the Japan Welding Society.
In this course the series of teaching materials has been developed, achieving the
consistency with the IIW syllabus, as the special materials for Senior Welding Engineer
(corresponds to the highest level of IWE as per the IIW scheme). The teaching materials
have been developed so as to fulfill the whole part of welding technologies, which are
suitable not only for Senior Welding Engineer but also for Welding Engineer.
The teaching books consist of six chapters. Chapters 1 thru 4 contain such fundamental
and practical welding technical knowledge as welding processes and equipment, materials
and their behaviour during welding, design and construction, and fabrication and
application engineering. Chapters 5 and 6 detail the knowledge of welding design and
fabrication of frame structures and vessels, which will be useful for welding coordination
personnel who are engaged in the fabrication of these structures and vessels.
These books have been developed as the teaching materials for the Senior Welding
Engineer applicants, which are edited so as to be easy to study indispensable knowledge
for the high level welding coordination personnel. The knowledge for Welding Engineer is
of course contained, too; these books therefore are useful for a wide scope of welding
coordination personnel. I hope these books will contribute to the maintenance and
development of welding coordination personnel of Senior Welding Engineer and Welding
Engineer.
You may think that welding technologies have been matured through significant
development during the last more than half centuries; however, they have been still
advancing day by day for higher efficiency with the sufficient quality of welding
constructions. These books contain the fundamentals that can be a basis for technical
advancement as well as state-of-the-art welding and joining technologies. I hope the
series of books will be useful for applicants for welding coordination personnel.

October 2008

Past Chairperson: Masao Toyoda

Education Committee
Japan Welding Engineering Society

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 Overall Contents

Chapter 1
Welding Processes and Equipment
Pages 1-1 thru 1-85

Chapter 2
Materials and their Behaviour during Welding
Pages 2-1 thru 2-92

Chapter 3
Design and Construction
Pages 3-1 thru 3-66

Chapter 4
Fabrication and Application Engineering
Pages 4-1 thru 4-104

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