7. Stud Welding - AWS Section

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155AASHTO/AWS ScopeSection 7 contains general requirements for weldingsteel studs to steel (see and for approvedsteels). In addition, it stipulates specific requirements forthe following:(1) Workmanship, preproduction testing, operatorqualification, and application qualification testing, whenrequired, all to be performed by the Contractor(2) QC and QA inspection of stud Welding duringproduction(3) Mechanical properties of steel studs, and require-ments for qualification of stud bases, all tests and docu-mentation to be furnished by the stud General shall be of suitable design for arc Welding tosteel members with the use of automatically timed studwelding equipment.

AASHTO/AWS D1.5M/D1.5:2002 STUD WELDING 156 (1) the steel after cold finishing, or (2) the full diameter finished studs. In either case, the studs shall conform to

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