The Structural Welding Quality Handbook has been prepared to assist welders, supervisors, inspectors, engineers, and others involved in the design, fabrication, erection and inspection of steel-framed buildings and structures in achieving quality workmanship and inspection in their welding operations.

Included in the Handbook are topics such as:

• definitions, causes, solutions, measurement, acceptance criteria, and repair of various weld discontinuities and defects

• groove weld assembly, measurement, and tolerances for common joints

• fillet weld measurement and fitup tolerances

• preheat and interpass temperature tables and measurement

• minimum weld sizes

• reentrant corner, cope and access hole details

• welding procedure guidelines and troubleshooting

• welder qualification test tables

• electrode classification and selection tables

• SMAW electrode exposure limits

• guidelines for minimizing distortion

• thermal cutting quality and guidelines

• gouging guidelines

• welding symbols

• welding positions

• metric conversion tables

• and much more.