Thank you for your input gtaw, these are items I had not considered, and I believe you are completely correct.
Thank you for the suggestion Duwe6, B2.1 is a great suggestion for dissimilar weld qualification guidance.
So without getting further distracted by this particular instance with...
Great point, and one I had not considered, thank you.
I will bring this to the clients attention, and honestly, it may solve the issue, because we can treat the plates like a PQR, do the 3 required macroetches per Figure 4.5, and the welder who welded the PQR plate will automatically be...
I am attempting to qualify some welders to AWS D1.6 on a prequalified procedure of stainless steel to mild steel. It appears that the requirements for this test are not laid out anywhere, and the figure that the text points to is for fillet PQRs and not fillet WPQs. Does anyone know or see...