May 01, 2024  
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MTA 2253 - Pipe Welder Shop


Credit(s): 3

The Pipe Weld Shop course will provide an introduction to general safety considerations that apply to welding and metal cutting, welding symbols, reading welding detail drawings, weld quality, base metal preparation, physical characteristics and mechanical properties of metals, and preheating and postweld heat treatment of metals. It will continue with plasma arc cutting, shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) stainless steel groove welds, and principles of safe oxyfuel cutting. It finishes with gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) equipment and filler metals, FCAW – pipe, and air carbon arc cutting (CAC-A) and gouging. Lab exercises will be comprehensive and will be concentrated in the latter half of the course.



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