PDO Interview Questians 2009

Name: ANEEZ WRI 3rd batch

1) Previous work experience?

2) What is sensitization? Causes and remedies?
3) What is sour service?
4) How will you check hardness values?
5) What is A-106 Gr-B? What is its P No: ?
6) What is HIC? Causes for HIC?
7) What is hydrogen embrittlement?
8) Difference b/w HIC and Hydrogen embrittlement?
9) Two sample pieces f destructive testing id shown. Identify the test carried out?
10) What do you mean by ductility and brittleness? What is necking in tensile testing?
11) How are electrodes classified? Properties and application?
12) Baking and storage temperature for Low Hydrogen electrodes?
13) Did you heard about high hydrogen electrodes?
14) What does “1” stands for in E-6010? Which position can u weld in “2”?
15) Can we use cellulosic electrode for Fillet welding? Why?
16) Why cellulosic electrodes for roots?
17) What is an ITP? Structure of ITP? What is hold and witness point?
18) What do you mean by carbon steel? What if carbon % goes beyond 2 %?
19) What is DSS, ASS, and FSS? Difference b/w them? Properties?
20) What is SSC and pitting corrosion?
21) Can we do PWHT in stainless steel?
22) What do u mean by killed and semi killed steel?
23) Two PQR –one with GTAW qualified for 8 mm thickness and other with SMAW for 16 mm
thickness. What are the thickness ranges qualified for both of them? Is it possible to make a WPS in
combination process to weld a 32 mm thk pipe?
24) What are the minimum mandatory documents for a PQR?
25) A PQR is qualified in 5-g. Is it possible to weld in another positions as per API -1104?
26) Acceptance criteria for Lack of penetration as per 1104? How it occurs and how it can be avoided?
27) What do you check in an RT film before interpretation?
28) What are the density ranges as per ASME Sec V, SP 1176?
29) Three different Density values obtained in a RT film like 2.5 at penetrameter, 2 and 3.2 @ different
location of weld area? Do you accept this? Why?
30) Acceptance criteria for rounded indication?
31) How can we check lamination?
32) What is dead zone in UT?
33) What method gives better results DP or MPI? Why?
34) How is calibration of yoke done?
35) Checklist for attending repair?

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Name: RAJAEKARAN WRI 3 rd batch

1) PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE?
2) What is A 106 Gr-b, A 333 gr-6, 105 N, A234?
3) What is PSL?
4) What is X 42, X 60?
5) What is Baking Oven temperature and time?
6) What is holding oven and quiver temperature?
7) Sour and non sour service?
8) Requirement of sour service materials?
9) What is E-6010, E 7010-P1?
10) Classification and properties of electrodes?
11) Why baking is carried out?
12) Essential, non essential and supplementary essential variable?
13) Procedure qualified ranges for thickness in 5mm, 10 mm and 16 mm-Impact tested materials?
14) What is difference between t and T? in ASME Sec IX?
15) What is toughness?
16) Ferrite, austenite and martensite?
17) LOP as per API 1104?
18) Porosity acceptance criteria as per B 31.3? SP 1173?
19) What is brittle fracture?
20) Difference between breaking glass and tensile specimen?
21) What is density?
22) What is sensitivity?
23) What do you check in film before interpretation?
24) What are defects you seen in API 1104?
25) Film interpretation
26) Design temperature of 106 Gr-b? can it be used at -20° C?
27) Design temperature at A 105 N?
28) What is B-31.3?
29) What is SP-1173, 1174, 1177?

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Name: JAYARAM TK WRI 3 rd batch

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1) Previous experience?
2) Which is more ductile? SS or CS? Why?
3) Which is more ductile ASS or FSS? Why? Which can be welded more easily? Why?
4) Define toughness? Which is having more toughness? ASS or FSS? Why?
5) Structures formed in fast cooling and slow cooling?
6) What is bainite? Which is having good toughness? Why?
7) Define hardness?
8) Which is having good hardness? SS or CS?
9) What is duplex SS?
10) What will happen if SS and DSS stored together?
11) Type of electrode and explain?
12) Which electrode used for fillet welding as per SP? Why?
13) Type of Low hydrogen electrodes?
14) Can SS be used in Low temperatures? Why?
15) What is SAW? Explain?
16) Define Heat Treatment? Type of heat treatment?
17) What is annealing?
18) Difference between On-plot and Off Plot?
19) What is class -1, 2 & 3 pipeline?
20) Which CS used for Low temperature application?
21) What basis low temperature is defined?
22) Defects seen in Cs?
23) How LOF occurs?
24) Causes for Undercut, burnthrough , slag?
25) Acceptance foe porosity as per SP 1177?
26) In 4 mm thick pipe 3 mm porosity is observed? Do you accept?
27) How materials are classifies as per API 1104?
28) If a welder is qualified in X 42, can he weld X 52?
29) If qualified in X 60, can he weld X 52?
30) Procedure qualification range as per Sec IX? 8, 16 mm thick
31) What will you check in an MTC?
32) Responsibility of welding Inspector before during and after welding?
33) Hardness value for sour and non sour service-SP 1173?
34) If a welder welds a joint with non qualified electrode, what will be your action?
35) How tungsten inclusions appear in RT film?
36) Formula for density? geometric unsharpness?
37) What is shim?
38) Sensitivity formula?
39) Dead zone?
40) What discontinuity you check using UT?

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41) Why lamination cannot be seen in RT?

42) What precaution u take in PT in SS?
43) What happens if sulphur increases?

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Name: Harish Rajendran WRI 3 rd batch

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1) Previous experience?
2) International codes and standards familiar with?
3) What is A 105?
4) What do you know about piping class (ANSI) ? What does ANSI 300 means?
5) What are other ANSI classes in piping?
6) Difference between ANSI 300 and 600?
7) What is severe fluid?
8) What is difference between ANSI 600 (water) and ANSI 600 (oil)?
9) How fluids are classified as per ASME B 31.3?
10) What is Category M fluid?
11) What is service condition for category D fluids?
12) Examples of non toxic fluids?
13) Examples of non toxic and non flammable fluid?
14) Difference b/w martensite and bainite?
15) What is pearlite, ferrite, austenite?
16) What is phase transformation of A 105, 106, Gr B?
17) As carbon increases what happen to pearlite phase?
18) What is difference b/w A 333 and A 106?
19) Design temeperature of A 106, A 333?
20) Is impact test required for A 106, A 333?
21) How can we increase impact property?
22) Define toughness?
23) What do you think is the reason behind Titanic failure?
24) What is crystal structure of ductile material?
25) Advantages and disadvantages of SMAW and SAW?
26) Which process can lead to more defects?
27) Defect normally seen in SMAW not in GTAW, in GTAW but not in SMAW?
28) How many types of electrode are there?
29) Which electrode gives more hydrogen in weld?
30) What do you mean by cellulosic fibres?
31) Which electrode gives deeper penetration?
32) Which electrode gives smooth arc?
33) Which gas protects molten pool from atmospheric contaminant in cellulosic electrodes?
34) What is downhill welding and what electrodes are used?
35) What is flux?
36) What are tests required for sour service materials?
37) Defects in welding? Causes and remedies?
38) Why spatter can be removed easily?
39) What happens when we use longer arc?

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40) Explain different types of cracking in weld?

41) What gases causes cracks in weldment?
42) What is solidification cracking? How can we prevent it?
43) What are the causes of hydrogen induced cracking?
44) What is lamellar tearing?
45) What is through thickness ductility?
46) How can we reduce restraint or lamellar tearing?
47) What is reheat cracking? In what materials it occurs?
48) What type of crack occurs in SS?
49) What is fatigue? What materials it generally occurs?
50) What is stress concentration?
51) Why fatigue crack occur in outside surface of materials?
52) How do you know notch toughness is required for a particular material?
53) Give examples of supplementary essential variable?
54) Qualified thickness ranges for Impact tested materials- 5 mm, 14 mm, 25 mm?

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Name: Anto daly WRI 3 rd batch

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1) What are the materials you familiar with?

2) What is mean by A333 and its design temp. ?
3) What is mean by impact property?
4) Can we use CS at -5 deg.? Why?
5) Chemical composition of CS & LTCS
6) What is mean by A105
7) What is mean by SS & types?
8) %of alloying elements in DSS
9) Types of electrodes?
10) Why the classified like that?
11) What is mean by cellulosic, rutile and low hydrogen?
12) Types of covering for each and chemical composition?
13) Which of these three give good arc; make more slag, fumes etc….
14) Why low hydrogen electrodes need baking and how, temp etc…
15) Which one is used for pipeline? Why?
16) Welding process you familiar with
17) Advantages and disadvantage
18) Application? Why?
19) Which one gives good impact property?
20) What are you know about heat treatment?
21) Types of HT
22) Phase transformation in HT?
23) Material structure in CS.etc ?
24) Austenite……to…………….binate?
25) Material structure in binate?
26) Rimmed, Killed, Semi killed steels?
27) What are essential non, supplementary essential variables?
28) How a supplementary essential variable be essential?
29) How we know it affect the notch toughness?
30) Two PQR we have one with GTAW in 8 mm and another with 16 mm SMAW. Can we make a
WPS with these two for 32 mm combination process? Why?
31) With GTAW 14mm? Why?
32) Thickness range of impact property materials 24mm, 14mm, 10mm, 4mm.
33) What are the classes you know in materials? specially in SS
34) What are the acceptance criteria of porosity as per B31.3—(Different service and thickness)
35) What are the acceptance criteria of porosity, slag, LOP, IP etc.. as per API 1104
36) Different techniques in RT
37) Which side IQI gives good image? Why?
38) Sensitivity????
39) What are the things you check in interpretation?
40) Backscatter???
41) DWDI????

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42) What is the main point you check in elliptical method?

43) What does u know about UT????
44) 5mm thick plates which process you prefer PT or MT? Why?
45) How you check yoke?
46) What is the angle of yoke? How is it works?
47) MT detect defect up to how much depth?
48) What is mean by dwell time? how much ?
49) Can we use MT in SS? Why?
50) In ferrite??
51) Which type of penitrent we use in SS for PT?
52) HOW we will check?
53) Interpretation with film photos….

2nd appearance
1) How many films u interpreted yet now?
2) What r the common defects?
3) Acceptance criteria for that one’s without referring code?
4) Acceptance criteria of porosity?
5) What r the spec’s u familiar with
6) Acceptance criteria of porosity, slag, root concavity?
7) Same in different thickness, cods, spec’s ect?
8) What is meant by porosity?
9) Which gas is trapped in porosity?
10) Causes of porosity?
11) What is mean by electrode baking? Temperature? Reasons?
12) Holding times in backing oven, holding oven, quivers?
13) Causes of root concavity? What will happen due to root concavity?
14) How we select the shots for radiography?
15) Different techniques?
16) Familiar with?
17) Shot selection of double wall single image?
18) What is meant by density? Maximum density allowed?
19) Maximum density variation allowed?
20) What is meant by UG?
21) Equation and explain?
22) How u select the size of source?
23) What is the required UG no.?

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24) If the film is 10mm away from the weld. How u calculate UG?
25) Do u know about ITP?
26) For radiography what is ITP saying?
27) How u know radiography has taken?
28) Film interpretation..

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