SP 12 : 1975 Handbook for Gas Welders

FOREWORD

At the instance of Planning Commission, Government of India, Indian Standards Institution (ISI) launched a Steel Economy Project in the early 1950s. The object of this programme was to prepare a series of Indian Standard specifications and codes of practices in the field of production and use of steel.

One of the subjects under the Steel Economy Project is that pertaming to popularization of welding as a mode of fabrication. As a result of intensive study made during the last two decades and deliberations at numerous sittings of Technical Committees, a number of Indian Standards have been published in the field of wdding. A complete list of Indian Standard on welding is given in Appendix B