Welding
Integrated Service in Welding
Welding represents one of the most critical special processes in industry, where the quality of the joint determines the safety and reliability of the entire artifact.
Sideius, through its dedicated brands, acts as a single partner for the integral management of this technology, offering solutions ranging from laboratory testing and certification to specialized training.
The competencies are divided into three synergistic areas:
TEC Eurolab: the brand dedicated to the testing laboratory, a center of excellence for destructive and nondestructive testing.
Valor: Sideius’ certification body, accredited for qualification of personnel, processes and management systems in welding.
Skillantis: the academy focused on transferring technical skills and preparing industry professionals.
Our approach to the welding process
Operating in the welding industry means dealing with stringent regulations and international standards.
Our mission is tosupport engineering, automotive, aerospace, and energy companies in ensuring that every process is under control and every operator is properly qualified.
TEC Eurolab’s decades of know-how allows it to propose the optimal inspection strategy to the customer, selecting the best combination of inspection techniques and identifying the appropriate standards for the verification of the welded product related to the relevant industrial sector and indicating the best methodology for a correct execution of the examination.
In fact, TEC Eurolab’s testing service covers all the needs for nondestructive testing, dimensional analysis, mechanical, metallurgical and chemical tests called out in the main standards for welded product control.
Testing welds
- Macro examination without polishing and embedding
- Macrographic examination of welded joints
- Micrographic examination of welded joints
- Vickers hardness test on welded joints 30 p.p.
- Vickers hardness test on welded joints 45 p.t.
- Bend test on welded joints
- Ferrite counting
Welding mechanical characterization
- Bend test on welded joints - ISO Method 5173, ASTM E190, ASME IX
- Transv. tensile testing on welds - ISO Method 4136, ASME IX
- Bend test on welded joints - ISO Method 5173, ASTM E190, ASME IX
- Spot Weld Tensile
- Spot Weld Lap shear
- Spot Weld Peel test
Non-destructive testing and industrial tomography
In the weld product verification process, nondestructive testing is generally the starting point of the validation activity, as it does not involve permanent damage or modification of the structures being investigated.
- Visual method checks VT
- Liquid Penetrant Method Checks - pt
- Controls by Magnetoscopic Method -mt
- Radiographic Method Checks - RT
- Ultrasound Method Controls - UT
- Checks with industrial computed tomography
Certification in welding: personnel, processes and systems
Whether you are looking for a qualification for your staff or certification for your process or quality system in welding, our Certification Body is here to support you.
Valor, Sideius Certification Body, operating under ACCREDIA accreditation (ISO/IEC 17024; ISO/IEC 17065 and 17021), supports companies for certification of:
- quality management system in welding (ISO 3834)
- welding processes (ISO 15614 series; ISO 15613; ASME IX code; etc.)…
- personnel involved in welding and/or brazing of metallic materials (ISO 9606 series; ISO 14732; ISO 13585; ASME IX code; AWS code; etc.) and of plastics, polyethylene and polypropylene materials (ISO 9737, ISO 13067, ISO 10567).
Specialized training in welding with Skillantis
Technical courses and vocational qualification paths
Skillantis, the Sideius academy, delivers high-profile technical training courses designed to provide welders, coordinators and pnd technicians with the knowledge they need to manage special processes to the highest international standards.
Training offerings are structured to meet the needs of both those who need to obtain or renew a qualification and companies that need to properly implement quality management systems:
- Welding coordinator (UNI EN ISO 14731): paths dedicated to the figure responsible for supervising welding activities, with focus on responsibilities, planning and production management.
- Welding techniques and technical drawing reading, wps and wpqr: specific modules for welders and operators aimed at the correct interpretation of welding procedure specifications and understanding the defectology of the welding and fusion process.
Main welding industry standards to which we respond
NORMATIVE WELDED JOINTS – GENERAL
- UNI EN ISO 5817: Definition of 3 quality levels for steel joints (B,C,D) and the maximum dimensions of detected discontinuities
- UNI EN ISO 10042: Aluminum alloy joints
STANDARD WELDED JOINTS – VT METHOD
- UNI EN ISO 17637: Visual examination on welded joints.
NORMATIVE WELDED JOINTS – MT METHOD
- UNI EN ISO 17638: MT Examination – General Principles
- UNI EN ISO 23278: MT examination – Acceptability criteria (Level 1, 2, 3) for welded joints controlled with magnetic particles
STANDARD WELDED JOINTS – PT METHOD
- UNI EN ISO 23277: PT examination – Acceptability criteria (Level 1, 2, 3) for liquid penetrant controlled welded joints
STANDARD WELDED JOINTS – RT METHOD
- UNI EN ISO 17636-1: RT (Film) Examination – General Principles.
- UNI EN ISO 17636-2: RT (No Film) Examination – General Principles
- UNI EN ISO 10675-1: RT examination – Acceptability criteria (Level 1, 2, 3) for steel welded joints inspected with RT (both Film and No Film)
- UNI EN ISO 10675-2: RT examination – Acceptability criteria (Level 1, 2, 3) for RT-controlled Al welded joints (both Film and No Film)
NORMATIVE WELDED JOINTS – UT METHOD
- UNI EN ISO 17640: UT Examination – General Principles
- UNI EN ISO 11666: UT examination – Acceptability criteria for UT-checked welded joints.
- UNI EN ISO 23279: UT Examination – Characterization of discontinuities on welds detected by UT.
STANDARDS WELDED JOINTS – OTHER STANDARDS
- UNI EN ISO 17635: links all levels of 5817 to levels in other standards that define acceptability criteria
WELDED JOINT STANDARDS – US STANDARDS
- ASTM E1032: Standard Practice for Radiographic Examination of Weldments Using Industrial X-Ray Film.
- AWSD17.1: specification for Fusion Welding for AerospaceApplications.
