Welding Fabrication Drawing. This textbook is designed to give you all of the skills needed to be successful in welding. Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials usually metals or thermoplastics by causing coalescence.
Simply saying weld here or corners to be welded doesnt give us all the information. Accordingly the terms arrow side other side and both sides are used to indicate the weld location with respect to the. The steelwork contractor selects methods of welding each joint configuration that will achieve the performance required.
It is essential that everyone should have a full understanding of weld symbol requirements to ensure that the initial design requirement is met.
All weld details are included using the standard symbolic representation of welds as shown in BS EN 22553. Each weld should be detailed on the drawing using either a standard welding symbol per AWS A24 or if a standard welding symbol doesnt work a detail showing the dimensions should be included. Interpreting metal fab drawings is a course that introduces the principles of interpretation and application of industrial fabrication drawings. 222 Joint Welding Sequence.