How do you handle RT for tanks in your work
How do you handle RT for tanks in your work
(OP)
Hi. I am a Colombian engineer. I want to know some things about the mentality overseas.
I work in an enterprise reviewing work from a contractor. The contractor performs all types of NDE for tanks. One thing they do is Radiographic testing. My bosses keep telling me to choose for NDE the welded joints I think are going to be at fault, as for example, the first weld of a welder in monday (when he has no steady hand). My question is: Overseas, do you work like this? like policework trying to f*** the contractor? I mean, in the standards there is only a percentage, not such evil recommendations, that are common here. Thanks
I work in an enterprise reviewing work from a contractor. The contractor performs all types of NDE for tanks. One thing they do is Radiographic testing. My bosses keep telling me to choose for NDE the welded joints I think are going to be at fault, as for example, the first weld of a welder in monday (when he has no steady hand). My question is: Overseas, do you work like this? like policework trying to f*** the contractor? I mean, in the standards there is only a percentage, not such evil recommendations, that are common here. Thanks
Carlos Molina from http://www.apiexam.com





RE: How do you handle RT for tanks in your work
If left up to me as a TPI I choose a horizontal seam (midway), vertical seam (midway), T-joint intersection between circumferential & vertical seams, circumferential seams of F&D heads, etc.
The goal is to assure quality not to f*** the contractor.
RE: How do you handle RT for tanks in your work
There's no reason you can't do additional shots, or select locations on a different basis than what the standards say- but if you do, you're also inspecting to a higher degree than what the standards call for, and that should be addressed in your contract documents and may have some additional costs associated with it as well.