Standards ensure precision, quality, and consistency in welding, setting benchmarks for materials, techniques, and operator qualifications to ensure safety and reliability across industries.

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Top standards

Welding for aerospace applications — Qualification test for welders and welding operators — Fusion welding of metallic components

Welding — General tolerances for welded constructions — Dimensions for lengths and angles, shape and position

Welding and allied processes — Symbolic representation on drawings — Welded joints

Welding, brazing, soldering and cutting — Nomenclature of processes and reference numbers

Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials
Part 2: Comprehensive quality requirements

Welding — Fusion-welded joints in steel, nickel, titanium and their alloys (beam welding excluded) — Quality levels for imperfections