September - October 1999
TWI has representatives on many national and international standards committees for welding and joining. Their expert contribution to the work of these committees, and assistance to Industrial Members on standards issues is an important TWI activity.
New and Revised British Standards
British Standards
BS 806:
Specification for design and construction of ferrous piping installations for and in connections with land boilers.
Enquiry Case
Enquiry Case 806/9: September 1998 to BS 806: 1993 Steel 91 PVE/10
BS EN Publications
BS EN 1713: 1998
Non-destructive examination of welds - Ultrasonic examination - Characterisation of indications in welds. WEE/46
BS EN 10223
Steel wire and wire products for fences.
BS EN 10223-4: 1998
Steel wire welded mesh fencing. ISE/26
BS EN 10228:
Non-destructive testing of steel forgings.
BS EN 10228-3: 1998
Ultrasonic testing of ferritic or martensitic steel forgings. ISE/73/3
BS EN ISO 12224:
Solder wire, solid and flux cored - Specification and test method.
BS EN ISO 12224-1: 1998
Classification and performance requirements. NFE/27/4
BS EN 12258:
Aluminium and aluminium alloys - Terms and conditions.
BS EN 12258-1: 1998
General terms. Supersedes BS EN 23134-1: 1991, BS EN 23134-2: 1991, BD RN 23134-3: 1991 and BS EN 23134-4: 1991. NFE/35
British Standard Implementations
BS ISO 11782:
Corrosion of metals and alloys - Corrosion fatigue testing.
BS ISO 11782-1: 1998
Cycles to failure testing. No current standard is superseded. ISE/NFE/8
BS ISO 11782-2: 1998
Crack propagation testing using precracked specimens. No current standard is superseded. ISE/NFE/8
Published Documents (PDs)
PD 6633: 1998
Gas welding equipment - Industrial manual and machine oxygen-fuel gases blowpipes for flame heating and allied processes. No current standard is superseded. WEE/18
Amendments to British Standards
BS 1113: 1998
Specification for design and manufacture of water-tube steam generating plant (including superheaters, reheaters and steel tube economisers). Corrigendum No. 2 AMD 10121. PVE/2
BS 2633: 1987
Specification for Class 1 arc welding of ferritic steel pipework for carrying fluids. Amendment No.4 AMD 10065. WEE/21
BS 5500: 1997
Specification for unfired fusion welded pressure vessels. Amendment No.5 AMD 10093. PVE/1
BS EN 10213:
Technical delivery conditions for steel castings for pressure purposes.
BS EN 10213-1: 1996
General Corrigendum No.1 AMD 10194.
BS EN 10213-3: 1996
Steels for use at low temperatures Corrigendum No.1 AMD 10195. ISE/6
BS EN 470:
Protective clothing for use in welding and allied processes.
BS EN 470-1: 1995
General requirements. Amendment No.1 AMD 10031
BS EN 1714: 1998
Non-destructive examination of welded joints - Ultrasonic examination of welded joints. WEE/46. Corrigendum No.1 AMD 10286
BS EN ISO 9000:
Quality management and quality assurance standards. QS/1
BS EN ISO 9000-3:
Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001: 1994 to the development, installation and maintenance of computer software. Corrigendum No.1 AMD 10274.
Updated British Standards
BS EN 379: 1994
Specification for welding filters with switchable luminous transmittance and welding filters with dual luminous transmittance. Amendment No.1. PH/2
Withdrawn British Standards
BS EN 23134:
Light metals and their alloys - Terms and definitions. NFE/35
BS EN 23134-1: 1991
Materials. Superseded by BS EN 12258-1: 1998
BS EN 23134-2: 1991
Unwrought products. Superseded by BS EN 12258-1: 1998
BS EN 23134-3: 1991
Wrought products. Superseded by BS EN 12258-1: 1998. NFE/35
New Work Started
United Kingdom
Personal eye protectors for protection against short-circuit electric arc. PH/2/2
BS 5500
Specification for unfired fusion welded pressure vessels - Enquiry Case 33: Verification of shape of vessels subject to external pressure. Will amend BS 5550/EC 33. PVE/1
BS 341-1
Transportable gas container valves - Part 1: Specification for industrial valves for working pressures up to and including 300 bar. Will revise BS 341-1. PVE/3/1
European
EN ISO 544
Welding consumables - Technical delivery conditions for welding filler metals - Type of product, dimensions, tolerances and marking. CEN/TC 121/SC 3 through WEE/39
Welding consumables for cryogenic application. CEN/TC 121 SC 3 through WEE/39
EN ISO 11960
Petroleum and natural gas industries - Steel pipes for use as casing or tubing for wells. Will revised NE ISO 11960. CEN TC 12 through PSE/17/5
International
ISO 643
Steels - Micrographic determination of the ferritic or austenitic grain size. Will revise ISO 643. ISO/TC 17/SC 7 through ISE/72
ISO 6971
Welded steel type cranked link drag chains and sprockets. Will revise ISO 6971. ISO/TC 100 through MCE/1
ISO 6972
Welded steel type cranked link mill chains and sprockets. Will revise ISO 6972. ISO/TC 100 through MCE/1
ISO 6847
Welding consumables - Deposition of a weld metal pad for chemical analysis. Will revise ISO 6847. ISO/TC 22/SC 9 through AUE/15
ISO 14372
Welding - Determination of moisture resistance of shielded metal arc welding consumables. ISO/TC 44/SC 3 through WEE/39
ISO 9455-17
Soft-soldering fluxes - Test methods - Part 17: Surface insulation resistance, comb test and electrochemical migration test of flux residues. ISO/TC 44/SC through NFE/27/4
Draft British Standards for Public Comment
98/231750 DC
Draft IEC 61190-1-3 Requirements for electronic grade solder alloys and fluxed and non-fluxed solid solders for electronic soldering applications. (Possible new British Standard).(IEC 91/149/CDV) EPL/501
98/710062 DC
prEN ISO 9692-3 Welding and allied proceses - Joint preparation - Part 3: Metal insert gas welding and tungsten inert gas welding of aluminium and its alloys (ISO/DIS 9692-3 Draft revision of ISO 9692: 1992) WEE/1
98/711455 DC
prEN 12953-1 Shell boilers - Part 1: General. PVE/16
98/711456 DC
prEN 12953-2 Shell boilers - Part 2: Materials. PVE/16
98/711457 DC
prEN 12953-3 Shell boilers - Part 3: Design and calculation. PVE/16
98/711458 DC
prEN 12953-4: Shell boilers - Part 4: Workmanship and construction. PVE/16
98/711459 DC
prEN 12953-5 Shell boilers - Part 5: Inspection during construction, documentation and marking. PVE/16
98/711551 DC
ISO/DIS 6847 Welding consumables - Deposition of a weld metal pad for chemical analysis (Draft revision of ISO 6847: 1985) WEE/39
98/711552 DC
ISO/DIS 14372 Welding - Determination of moisture resistance of shielded metal arc welding consumables. WEE/39
98/711643 DC
prEN ISO 3690 Welding and allied processes - Determination of hydrogen content in ferritic arc weld metal (Revision of ISO 3690: 1977) (ISO/DIS 3690) WEE/39
98/711650 DC
prEN 1964-2 Transportable gas cylinders - Specification for the design and construction of refillable transportable seamless steel gas cylinders from 0.5 litres up to and including 150 litres - Part 2: Tensile strength (R mMax) ≥ 1100 MPa (N/mm 2) PVE/3/3_
98/711651 DC
prEN 13322-1 Transportable gas cylinders - Refillable welded steel gas cylinders - Design and construction - Part 1: Welded steel PVE/3/3
98/711652 DC
prEN 13322-2 Transportable gas cylinders - Refillable welded steel gas cylinders - Design and construction - Part 2: Welded stainless steel. PVE/3/3
98/711653 DC
prEN 13293 Transportable gas cylinders - Specification for the design and construction of refillable transportable seamless normalised carbon manganese steel gas cylinders up to and including 1 litre. PVE/3/3
98/712763 DC
prEN 12953-7 Water-tube boilers - Part 7: Requirements for flue gas cleaning sytems. PVE/2
98/712786 DC
prEN 583-5 Non-destructive testing - Ultrasonic examination - Part 5: Characterisation and sizing of imperfections. WEE/46
98/124129 DC
prEN 1763-2 Flexible hose, tubing and assemblies for use with propane and butane in the vapour phase - Part 2: Requirements for nozzles, couplings and assemblies. PRI/66
98/232082 DC
ISO/DIS 13694 Optics and optical instruments - Lasers and laser-related equipment - Test methods for laser beam power (energy) density distribution (Possible new British Standard) EPL/76 and CPW/172)
98/712905 DC
ISO/DIS 11960 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Steel pipes for use as casings or tubing for wells (Draft revision of ISO 11960: 1996) PSE/17/5
98/712956 DC
prEN 10305-2 Steel tubes for precision applications - Technical delivery conditions - Part 2: Welded cold drawn tubes. ISE/8
98/712957 DC
prEN 10305-3 Steel tubes for precision applications - Technical delivery condition - Part 3: Welded cold sized tubes. ISE/8
98/712958 DC
prEN 10305-4 Steel tubes for precision applications - Technical delivery conditons - Part 4: Seamless cold drawn tubes for hydraulic and pneumatic power systems. ISE/8
98/712959 DC
prEN 10305-1 Steel tubes for precision applications -Technical delivery conditions - Part 1: Seamless cold drawn tubes. ISE/8
98/713703 DC
prEN 13340 Pressure equipment - Safety devices for the prevention of excessive pressure - Terminology. PVE/12
98/714317 DC
prEN ISO 15616-1 Acceptance tests for CO 2-laser beam machines for welding and cutting - Part 1: General principles, acceptance conditions ISO/DIS 15616-1 WEE/-/1/8
98/714318 DC
prEN ISO 15616-2 Acceptance tests for CO 2-laser beam machines for welding and cutting - Part 2: Measurement of static and dynamic accuracy. ISO/DIS 15616-2 WEE/-/1/8
98/714319 DC
prEN ISO 15616-3 Acceptance tests for CO 2-laser beam machines for welding and cutting - Part 3: Measurement of the process oriented gas parameters ISO/DIS 15616-3 WEE/-/1/8
CEN European Standards
CEN European Standards/Reports/Publications
EN 379:
Specification for welding filters with switchable luminous transmittance and welding filters with dual luminous transmittance. Amendment Al: 1998 to EN 379: 1994. PH/2
EN 1330-8: 1998
Non-destructive testing - Terminology - Part 8: Terms used in leak tightness testing. WEE/46
EN 1713: 1998
Non-destructive examination of welds - Ultrasonic examination - Characterisation of indications in welds. WEE/46
CR 13259: 1998
Gas welding equipment - Industrial manual and machine oxygen-fuel gases blowpipes for flame heating and allied processes
EN 1330-5: 1998
Non-destructive testing - Terminology Part 5: Terms used in Eddy Current testing. WEE/46
Draft International Standards
ISO 9455-13: 1996
Soft-soldering fluxes - Test methods - Part 13: Determination of flux spattering
ISO 9455-15: 1996
Soft soldering fluxes - Test methods - Part 15: Copper corrosion test
ISO 12224-2: 1997
Flux cored solder wire - Specification and test methods - Part 2: Determination of flux content
International Publications
DIN 50163-2: 1991
Vickers hardness testing of resistance spot, projection and seam welds (low load and microhardness ranges)
ISO 11625: 1998
Gas cylinders - Safe handling. PVE/3/7
DIN 8518: 1995
Classification of imperfections in cuts produced by oxygen flame, laser beam or arc plasma cutting
DIN 28054-4: 1995
Sprayed organic coatings on metallic components for use in process engineering
ISO 5579: 1998
Non-destructive testing - Radiographic examination of metallic materials by X- and gamma rays - Basic rules. (Edition 2). WEE/46. Will not be implemented as a British Standard - BS EN 444 is a related standard
ISO 11699:
Non-destructive testing - Industrial radiographic films
ISO 11699-1: 1998
Classification of film systems for industrial radiography. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. BS EN 584-1 is a a related standard. WEE/46
ISO 11699-2: 1998
Control of film processing by means of reference values. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. BS EN 584-2 is a related standard. WEE/46
ISO 151-9: 1998
Adhesives - Determination of the time to rupture of bonded joints under static load. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. STI/52
ISO 15166-1: 1998
Adhesives - Methods of preparing bulk specimens - Part 1: Two-part systems. Note: Implemented as BS EN ISO 15166-1: 1998. STI/52
ISO 4705:
Refillable seamless steel gas cylinders. Technical Corrigendum 1: 1998 to ISO 4705: 1983. PVE/3/3
ISO 9606:
Approval testing of welders - Fusion welding. WEE/36
ISO 9606-1:
Amendment 1: 1998 to ISO 9606-1: 1994. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. EN 287-1 (BS EN 287-1) is a related standard
ISO 9606-2:
Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Amendment 1: 1998 to ISO 9606-2: 1994. Will not be implemented as a British Standard EN 287-2 (BS EN 287-2) is a related standard
ISO 11537: 1998
Non-destructive testing - Thermal neutron radiographic testing - General principles and basic rules. WEE/46
ISO 12713: 1998
Non-destructive testing - Acoustic emission inspection - Primary calibration of transducers. WEE/46
ISO 14732: 1998
Welding personnel - Approval testing of welding operators for fusion welding and of resistance weld setters for fully mechanised and automatic welding of metallic materials. WEE/36. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. Equivalent to BS EN 1418.
DIN 1737-1: 1984
Filler metals for welding titanium and titanium palladium alloys - Chemical compositionl, technical delivery conditions
DIN 50459-1: 1997
Universal hardness testing of metallic materials - Test method
ISO 3253: 1998 (Edition 2)
Gas welding equipment - Hose connections for equipment for welding, cutting and allied processes. WEE/18
ISO 4063: 1998 (Edition 3)
Welding and allied processes - Nomenclature of processes and reference numbers. WEE/1. Will be adopted in CEN via UAP procedure as BS EN ISO 4062 to supersede BS EN 24063: 1992
ISO 5183-1: 1998 (Edition 2)
Resistance welding equipment - Electrode adaptors, male taper 1:10 - Part 1: Conical fixing, taper 1:10. WEE/26
ISO 9454-2: 1998
Soft soldering fluxes - Classification and requirements - Part 2: Performance requirements. NFE/27/4
ISO 9455-10: 1998
Soft soldering fluxes - Test methods - Part 10: Flux efficacy tests, solder spread method. NFE/27/4
ISO 11117: 1998
Gas cylinders - Valve protection caps and valve guards for industrial and medical gas cylinders - Design, construction and tests. PVE/3/1. Will not be implemented as a British Standard. BS EN 962: 1997 is related standard.
ISO 12145: 1998
Resistance welding equipment - Angles for mounting spot welding electrodes. WEE/26
ISO 13341
Transportable gas cylinders - Fitting of valves to gas cylinders. Technical Corrigendum 1: 1998 to ISO 13341: 1997. PVE/3/1
American Standards
API 620:
Design and construction of large, welded, low-pressure storage tanks. Addendum 2 to APE 620
API 650:
Welded steel tanks for oil storage. Addendum 4 to API 650
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code 1998
API 5LC: 1998
Specification for CRA line pipe
API 5LD: 1998
Specification for CRA clad or lined steel pipe
API 574: 1998
Inspection practices for piping system components
ASTM
Volume 03.01: 1998 Metals - Mechanical testing: Elevated and low-temperature tests: Metallography.
