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Magpulse Technologies WELDING QUALIFICATIONS By R.Srinivasan Contech Engineers- Navi Mumbai Most of the people consider the welding qualifications as totally theoretical and hence it is not very uncommon to see people totally ignoring this aspect in a manufacturing set-up. One would often meet several people in the related industries unaware of difference between a welding procedure qualification and a welder qualification. This paper is prepared with the intent of throwing light on aspects related to the welding qualifications. When an item is designed for a particular application, the material used for the construction of such an item is assumed to have certain properties. Mechanical strength and chemical composition are the two such properties that are considered very commonly in almost all the engineering designs. Naturally a weld joint which forms a part of the component also is assumed to have these properties. Due to the advancements in the Welding Technology and NDT methods it has been possible to obtain weld joints which are as strong as the parent material. Hence, these days, in most cases welds are considered to have the strength same as that of base material. To check that they have the desired properties, one can carry out any type of tests (either destructive or non-destructive) for the parent metals, in most of the cases. But same is