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

Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials — Welding procedure test
Part 1: Arc and gas welding of steels and arc welding of nickel and nickel alloys

Qualification testing of welders — Fusion welding
Part 1: Steels

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

Thermal cutting — Classification of thermal cuts — Geometrical product specification and quality tolerances

Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials
Part 1: Criteria for the selection of the appropriate level of quality requirements