IS 10234 : 1982 Recommendation for General Pipeline Welding

1 Scope

1.1 This standard recommends the procedure for shop and site welding of ferritic steel pipe and pipe assemblies used in the transmission and distribution of liquids, refrigerants and gases. The welding may be done by This processes:

a) Manual metal-arc welding,

b) Oxy-acetylene welding,

c) Inert-gas tungsten arc welding,

d) Gas shielded metal-arc welding,

e) Submerged-arc welding,

f) Metal-arc welding on root run made by oxy-acetylene welding process,

g) Metal-arc welding on root run made by inert-gas tungsten arc welding process, and

h) Submerged-arc welding on root run made by gas shielded metal-arc welding process.

2 References

IS 2 : 1960 Rules for rounding off numerical values

IS 812 : 1957 Glossary of terms relating to welding and cutting ofmetals

IS 813 : 1961 Scheme of symbols for welding

IS 1608 : 1972 Method for tensile testing of steel products