Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations SDETERS on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. hamidinho

    Flange to pipe misalignment

    It's in the ID as you may found attached (on the OD as the thickness of the pipe is not constant, some misalignment occurs). With my small experience usually it's the opposite that happens and we just trim the pipe to match the ID of the flange and therefore remove the misalignment, but in this...
  2. hamidinho

    Flange to pipe misalignment

    Thanks for your repley i will look into it
  3. hamidinho

    Flange to pipe misalignment

    Hello again, First of all sorry for the very late answer and thank you for your replies, I have a 20'' API 5L Gr B seamless pipe sch 20 and an 20'' FLANGE WN #150 RF ASME B16.5 SCH-20 ASTM A105N. With many efforts from our fitters we could make the misalignment to a maximum of 1.5 mm (as per...
  4. hamidinho

    Flange to pipe misalignment

    Greetings you all, I'm currently working in an oil and gas project and i faced a problem , i have a 20'' Flange that the inside dia is smaller to my 20'' pipe (about 2-3 mm smaller), in ASME B31.3 is stated trimming is permissible for pipe to pipe but doesn't mention flange to pipe situation...
  5. hamidinho

    Qualified welding positions in a WPS

    Thank you for your kind reply !
  6. hamidinho

    Qualified welding positions in a WPS

    Morning all, I've found myself greatly confused about welding positions in WPS as per ASME Sec IX. At first i thought that the same table for WPQ (QW-461.9) was also used for writing WPS, i.e : i work in the field of storage tanks so the main positions we use are 1G, 2G, 3G, 5F and 6G (SMAW and...
  7. hamidinho

    Is there anyway to prove equivalence of different material from different codes ?

    Hello guys, So i've got an issue with a project, we need to find an equivalent to a material from a french code which is TU37C, because it's unavailable in the market -we have only astm material-. I've done some researches and i've found out that likes of A106 Gr A, A192.. are equivalent but...
  8. hamidinho

    NDE (RT) Map for storage tanks

    It is not the shell that is hard to draw but it's rather the radiography spots that are boring and repetitive especially when naming them one by one.
  9. hamidinho

    NDE (RT) Map for storage tanks

    Here's a copy of the excel file i made. So i was asking my self if there's another way more efficent to make it? And byt the way is it correct ? The thickness of the plates for the tanks are like this : - Demineralized Water Tank : between 24 and 8 mm - Desalinated Water Tank : between 11 and...
  10. hamidinho

    NDE (RT) Map for storage tanks

    Hello guys, I'm still a newbie in this field (junior engineer with only 2 months xp) and i've got a task to do the nde map for a new project of storage tanks, my colleague told me to refer to the API 650 para 8.1.2 to understand how to do it. At this point everything is good but there's...
  11. hamidinho

    Calculation of the filler metal consumption

    Greetings to all, So there is this issue that i'm trying to deal with in a project for a tank storage and it's about calculating the amount of filler metal consumables needed for the project. I've done some searches and i found a=this formula : W = A * Rho * L * 1/E Where : W is the weld metal...
  12. hamidinho

    How many repairs before replacement for storage tank?

    Such a good point you made here. Thank you i'm learning many here day by day
  13. hamidinho

    How many repairs before replacement for storage tank?

    Thank you and your replies are very appreciated. So it's more an economic issue than technical.
  14. hamidinho

    How many repairs before replacement for storage tank?

    I'm a junior engineer in this filed that don't have much experience so i thought that it would be mentioned in the code. Thank you for your answer so it depends on its state.
  15. hamidinho

    How many repairs before replacement for storage tank?

    Hello everyone, I have a quick question, how many repairs can we make to a bottom of a storage tank before it is required for us to replace it all ? If it is mentioned in API 653 which section will i found it ? Thank you
  16. hamidinho

    Junior Welding Engineer seeking career path advises

    Thanks EdStainless, do you have any methode or idea to get to know the codes and standard ? There's a looot stuff to know i always try to get a quick overview on any code then make a deep dive in every section. Also do you have any video or article to recommend to know how to make a wps ?
  17. hamidinho

    Junior Welding Engineer seeking career path advises

    Thank you weldstan for replying, but as a newbie what are the advantages from being an AWS member apart from their welding handbooks ?
  18. hamidinho

    Junior Welding Engineer seeking career path advises

    Hello everyone, I'm a recently graduated engineer in Welding and thanks to God i was also able to get a job not so long after my graduation as a junior engineer in welding for a company that essentially build tank storage, boiler and pressure vessel. It's been only one month since i started...

Part and Inventory Search