Print Reading for Welding and Fabrication

Description

For courses in welding and fabrication that cover blueprint reading.

To be a successful welder or fabricator, it is crucial to be able to build something correctly from reading the design requirements shown on a drawing. Print Reading for Welding and Fabrication, continues to provide a logical, easy-to-understand path for students learning to read and interpret drawings that are typically found in the industry. Each chapter clearly presents objectives and key terms, offers practical exercises, and concludes with a chapter containing easy-to-follow explanations of the mathematics needed to properly decipher prints. Throughout, the author emphasises the codes, standards, and industrial practices that students will be most likely to encounter — including concepts and terminology from the American Welding Society (AWS) and The Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Kevin Corgan began welding when his father, also a welder, began teaching him at age 13. He continued learning the welding trade and basic drafting through industrial arts and vocational welding classes at Collinsville High School and the Collinsville Area Vocational Center, before moving on to complete a degree in Welding Technology from Belleville Area College (BAC). During his time at BAC, Kevin won the Illinois State VICA (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America) competition and placed second at the National VICA competition, where welding skills and properly reading technical weld drawings are tested. He has worked in the field as a sheet metal worker, fabricator welder, quality assurance technician, welding technician, welding application engineer, laser welding engineer, consultant, ISO management representative, adjunct professor, and in his current position of Assistant Professor of Welding Technology at Southwestern Illinois College.

Kevin has traveled extensively throughout the world installing and servicing automated welding systems, writing welding procedures, and training welders. He has been involved in numerous industry- and government-funded research and development projects. He is a member of the American Welding Society (AWS), is a past chairman of the AWS St. Louis Section, and currently serves on the St. Louis Section board.

• Three industry prints have been added to the text, and an additional 15 online prints have been added to the supplementary materials, to present more realistic examples and application opportunities.
• Additional student exercises now accompany two of the new prints in the text and the 15 new online prints, to provide even more practice for students.
• Text updates reflect the most recent and relevant industry standards, including:
• ASME Y14.2-2014 Line Conventions and Lettering
• AWS A3.0M/A3.0:2010 Standard Welding Terms and Definitions
• AWS A2.4:2012 Standard Symbols for Welding, Brazing, and Nondestructive Examination
• ISO 2553:2013(E) Welding and allied processes—Symbolic representation on drawings—Welded joints
• Detailed sections on important topics — steps to read a drawing, welding specifications, pipe fittings, flanges, skewed joints, and converting and estimating weights of common metal used in fabrication — walk students through essential concepts.  
• Numerous additional and/or updated figures include new ISO welding symbol figures, an example of a generic welding procedure specification (WPS) form, examples of pipe fittings and flanges, a sample legend, and an example of a skewed joint.
• Four-color print now makes it easier to visualize, understand, and identify the specifics shown on figures.

• NEW! Three industry prints have been added to the text
  • NEW! Additional student exercises now accompany two of the new prints in the text and the 15 new online prints, to provide even more practice for students.
• NEW! Text updates reflect the most recent and relevant industry standards, including:
  • ASME Y14.2-2014 Line Conventions and Lettering
  • AWS A3.0M/A3.0:2010 Standard Welding Terms and Definitions
  • AWS A2.4:2012 Standard Symbols for Welding, Brazing, and Nondestructive Examination
  • ISO 2553:2013(E) Welding and allied processes—Symbolic representation on drawings—Welded joints
• NEW! Detailed sections on important topics — steps to read a drawing, welding specifications, pipe fittings, flanges, skewed joints, and converting and estimating weights of common metal used in fabrication — walk students through essential concepts.  
• NEW! Numerous additional and/or updated figures include new ISO welding symbol figures, an example of a generic welding procedure specification (WPS) form, examples of pipe fittings and flanges, a sample legend, and an example of a skewed joint.
• NEW! Four-color print now makes it easier to visualise, understand, and identify the specifics shown on figures.

Hallmark Features

• Comprehensive coverage – of lines, views, dimensions, notes, specifications, materials, weld joints and types, standards, additional drawing concepts, and much more – prepares students to read the most widely used blueprints for welding and fabrication.
• The incorporation of essential contemporary industry practices, such as geometric dimensioning, tolerancing, and the use of surfacing symbols, goes beyond the basics to teach students higher-level techniques that employers will expect them to know.
• End-of-chapter math supplements present the math skills needed to master each chapter. This arrangement:
  • Helps students learn and better retain essential math skills by teaching it in small segments over a longer period of time.
  • Gives instructors the flexibility to choose which math supplements to use, based on what their students already know, and whether their students have already taken math prerequisites.
• Comprehensive appendixes provide easily accessible information that students can reference constantly, in both the shop and the workplace. They include coverage of acronyms, abbreviations, and letter designations; conversion tables and pipe size charts; the ASME Y14.5 to ISO Symbol Comparison Chart; the AWS Master Chart of Welding and Allied Processes; and the AWS Welding Symbol Chart.
• Extensive review exercises at the end of every chapter — plus a full chapter of additional review exercises at the end of the book — give studen

Provide your welding and fabrication students with a clear, concise tool to develop the essential print reading skills they’ll need the first day on the job!

To be a successful welder or fabricator, it is crucial to be able to build something correctly from reading the design requirements shown on a drawing. Print Reading for Welding and Fabrication, 2/e, continues to provide a logical, easy-to-understand path for students learning to read and interpret drawings that are typically found in the industry. Each chapter clearly presents objectives and key terms, offers practical exercises, and concludes with a chapter containing easy-to-follow explanations of the mathematics needed to properly decipher prints. Throughout, the author emphasizes the codes, standards, and industrial practices that students will be most likely to encounter – including concepts and terminology from the American Welding Society (AWS) and The Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

• 1.       Introduction to Print Reading
• 2.       Types of Lines
• 3.       Basic Drawing Views
• 4.       Dimensions
• 5.       Notes and Specifications
• 6.       Materials
• 7.       Weld Joints
• 8.       Weld Types
• 9.       Introduction to Welding Symbols
• 10.   Advanced Welding Symbols
• 11.   Additional Views
• 12.   Drawing Standards
• 13.   Additional Drawing Concepts
• 14.   Review Exercises
• Appendix A:       Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Letter Designations
• Appendix B:       Common Fraction, Decimal Fraction, and Millimeter Conversions
• Appendix C:       Millimeter, Decimal Fraction, and Common Fraction Conversions
• Appendix D:       Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe Size Chart for Selected Pipe Sizes
• Appendix E:        ASME Y14.5 and ISO Symbol Comparison Chart
• Appendix F:        Master Chart of Welding and Joining Processes
• Appendix G:       American Welding Society Welding Symbol Chart
• Glossary
• Index