Underwater Welding Technology – Cutting & Inspection
Jurandir Primo, PE
Course Outline
This 8-hour online course, didactically written, is a strong introduction of many practical concepts utilized in Underwater Welding Technology , but even as a level course, therefore, covers the fundamental theory, tailored for beginners, students, engineers, technicians, contractors or anyone who would like to become a whole welding specialist or manage production and onshore/offshore projects more efficiently.
This course includes
a multiple choice quiz at the end,
Learning Objective
At the conclusion of this course, the student will:
- Understand the concepts and parameters used in conventional welding processes;
- Understand the historical concepts and parameters used in welding engineering and construction;
- Understand the concepts and parameters used in dry and wet welding processes;
- Be able to learn and recognize the importance of underwater welding, due its huge use in onshore, offshore, general construction and maintenance;
- Know the basic comprehension of the terms generally used by qualified personnel in every stage of cutting and underwater welding operations;
- Be able to learn the concepts used in welding and to increase the recognition of the Welder-Diver and Underwater Inspector, as career fields;
- Be able to learn and recognize the importance of conventional and non-conventional welding as SMAW and FCAW, due applications in engineering and industrial production;
- Know the basic comprehension of the terms generally used by qualified personnel, commercial diving training and certifications;
- Be aware of mechanized underwater welding currently used in very large floating structures;
- Be aware of the potential of using ROVS, AUVs and robot manipulators for underwater welding, NDT, and video monitoring;
- Recognize the dry welding process commonly used and equipment characteristics as hyperbaric vessels, habitats, dry boxes, cofferdams, etc.;
- Know the minimum concepts of advanced welding techniques, like friction, laser welding and understand the behavior of materials after the welding and process optimization; and
- Understand how to apply welding procedures, inspections, new welding techniques and explore the possibility of its application in underwater welding.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for everyone, women or men, begginers, students, technicians, engineers, contractors and professionals interested or working with wet and dry welding, automation, bridges, onshore/offshore maintenance and inspection, or managing a manufacturing workshop more effectively.
Benefit to Attendees
Attendee of this course will be able to understand and specify conventional, wet and dry welding operations in short or large fabrication processes since he (she) is a qualified professional or looking for qualification.
Course Introduction
The student will understand the terms, fundamentals, history, standards, robotic welding, arcwater cutting, inspection, training, certification and the basic principles used in wet and dry welding processes.
Course Content
Oil & Gas and special application courses are very expensive. As described before, this course was deeply elaborated so, it requires the users to pay first before viewing the entire course content, but a preview with 10 initial pages can be seen, in order the student can adjudicate and feel the advantages of taking this course.
Underwater Welding Technology – Cutting & Inspection - Preview
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Course Summary
This course of Underwater Welding Technology – Cutting & Inspection, didactically defines the fundamentals of underwater welding, intended to provide information on the use of usual techniques for cutting and welding metals onshore and offshore, for all those who are interested to have knowledge, or being an underwater professional welder or inspector. Underwater Welding Technology can also be used to give the main guidelines to choose the correct application of automation and underwater safety according to operations and oilfield activities.
Related Links
For additional technical information related to this subject, please visit the following websites:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.videoray.com/
http://www.cswip.com/
http://www.weldguru.com/Underwater.html#overview
http://pdf.fortune1.org/
http://weldingschoolsonline.com/
http://weldingschoolsonline.com/category/underwater-welding-schools/
http://www.watersmarine.com.au/
http://www.interdive.co.uk/
https://www.diversinstitute.edu/
http://nupolytech.org/
https://www.osha.gov/
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4Dtl2IBJo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEs1C5Daff4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ERceGYW9E
Quiz
Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.
DISCLAIMER: The materials contained in the online course are not intended as a representation or warranty on the part of PDH Center or any other person/organization named herein. The materials are for general information only. They are not a substitute for competent professional advice. Application of this information to a specific project should be reviewed by a registered architect and/or professional engineer/surveyor. Anyone making use of the information set forth herein does so at their own risk and assumes any and all resulting liability arising therefrom.
