ANSI/AWS D14.8M:2009

This is the U.S. national adoption of ISO 17844:2004, Welding -- Comparison of standardized methods for the avoidance of cold cracks.

In addition to EN 1011-2/ISO/TR 17671-2, this document contains further methods for avoidance of coldcracking used by other members of ISO. This document gives guidance for manual, semi-mechanized,mechanized and automatic arc welding of ferritic steels, excluding ferritic stainless steels, in all productforms.

Further information about the materials and process parameters is given in Clauses 2 to 5.

NOTE 1 All references are listed in the annex Bibliography.

NOTE 2 All used abbreviations in this document are explained in EN 1011-2/ISO/TR 17671-2, and Annex B.

This product references:BS EN 499:1995 - Welding consumables. Covered electrodes for manual metal arc welding of non alloy and fine grain steels. Classification
BS EN 1011-1:2009 - Welding. Recommendations for welding of metallic materials. General guidance for arc welding
BS EN 1011-2:2001 - Welding. Recommendations for welding of metallic materials. Arc welding of ferritic steels
BS EN 10025-1:2004 - Hot rolled products of structural steels. General technical delivery conditions
BS EN 10025-2:2004 - Hot rolled products of structural steels. Technical delivery conditions for non-alloy structural steels
BS EN 10113-3:1993 - Hot-rolled products in weldable fine grain structural steels. Delivery conditions for thermomechanical rolled steels
BS EN 10137-2:1996 - Plates and wide flats made of high yield strength structural steels in the quenched and tempered or precipitation hardened conditions. Delivery conditions for quenched and tempered steels
ISO 3690:2000 - Welding and allied processes -- Determination of hydrogen content in ferritic steel arc weld metal
ISO 4063:1998 - Welding and allied processes - Nomenclature of processes and reference numbers
ISO 6947:1990 - Welds - Working positions - Definitions of angles of slope and rotation
ISO 15614-1:2004 - Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic materials - Welding procedure test - Part 1: Arc and gas welding of steels and arc welding of nickel and nickel alloys
ISO 2560:2002 - Welding consumables - Covered electrodes for manual metal arc welding of non-alloy and fine grain steels - Classification
ISO/TR 17671-1:2002 - Welding - Recommendations for welding of metallic materials - Part 1: General guidance for arc welding
ISO/TR 17671-2:2002 - Welding - Recommendations for welding of metallic materials - Part 2: Arc welding of ferritic steels
ANSI/AWS D1.1/D1.1M:2008 - Structural Welding Code - Steel, Second Printing, Includes Errata (2009)