Welding Repairs Getting It Right the First Time

Welding repairs often involve higher stakes than original fabrication. The pressure is greater, the conditions are more challenging, and the consequences of failure are more severe. Once a critical weld is compromised, the risks increase significantly: What was critical becomes supercritical, the margin for error narrows, and the cost of failure multiplies. A failure in a newly fabricated pressure vessel might be inconvenient, but a failure in a repaired pressure vessel already in service could be catastrophic.