BS 5135:1984

Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Information and requirements to be agreed and to be
    documented
4 Parent metal
5 Welding consumables
6 Equipment
7 Butt weld detail
8 Fillet weld details
9 Welds in slots
10 Preparation of joint faces
11 Fusion faces
12 Assembly for welding
13 Alignment of butt joints
14 Fit-up of parts joined by fillet welds
15 Tack welds
16 Temporary attachments
17 Protection from the weather
18 Stray arcing on work
19 Inter-run cleaning
20 Details of welding procedure
21 Welding procedures to avoid cracking
22 Approval and testing of welding procedures
23 Approval and testing of welders
24 Identification
25 Peening
26 Inspection and testing
27 Quality of welds
28 Correction of faulty welds
29 Heat treatment
Appendices
A Guidance on design
B Guidance on butt welds (for other than structural
    hollow sections)
C Guidance on typical details for structural hollow
    sections
D Guidance on fracture toughness of heat-affected zone
    and weld metal
E Guidance on avoidance of hydrogen cracking
F Guidance on solidification cracking
G Guidance on lamellar tearing
H Guidance on acceptance levels
Tables
1 Hydrogen scales
2 Carbon equivalent values for BS 4360 steels to be
    used in absence of mill sheets
3 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.38
4 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.40
5 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.41
6 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.43
7 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.45
8 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.48
9 Conditions for manual metal-arc welding with covered
    electrodes of fillet welds in steel having maximum
    carbon equivalent of 0.50
10 Run lengths and runout ratios for electrodes of
    efficiency < or = 110 % complying with BS 639
11 Run lengths and runout ratios for electrodes of
    efficiency > 110 % and < or = 130 % complying with
    BS 639
12 Run lengths and runout ratios for electrodes of
    efficiency > 130 % complying with BS 639
13 Values of arc energy for the manual metal-arc
    welding of single run fillet welds
14 Factors for deriving design throat thickness of
    flat or convex fillet welds
15 Typical forms of butt weld preparation (other than
    structural hollow sections)
16 Typical forms of butt weld preparation for
    structural hollow sections
17 Examples of maximum combined thickness weldable
    without preheat
18 Guidance on acceptance levels for butt joints
19 Guidance on acceptance levels for fillet welds
Figures
1 Diagrammatic representation of method of gouging out
    full penetration butt joints welded from both sides
2 Fillet welds applied to the edge of a part
3 Examples of combined thickness
4 Conditions for welding steel of stated carbon
    equivalent
5 Butt joints of unequal cross section
6 Branch connections for circular structural hollow
    sections: butt welds (thickness up to 30 mm)
7 Branch connections for circular structural hollow
    sections: fillet welds
8 Branch connections for rectangular structural hollow
    sections: butt welds
9 Branch connections for rectangular structural hollow
    sections: fillet welds
10 Short transverse tensile test specimen with friction
    welded extensions
11 Suggested STRA values appropriate to risk of
    lamellar tearing in joints of differing restraint
    (values based on 6.4 mm diameter specimen)
12 STRA against sulphur content for plates 12.5 mm to
    50 mm thick (inclusive)
13 Example of restraints in T-joint with fillet welds
14 Details and joint configurations in which lamellar
    tearing is possible when fabricating large
    structures with a high degree of restraint from
    plate

Parent metals, welding consumables, butt and fillet weld details, preparation and assembly, procedures to avoid cracking, welding procedure details, approval of welders, inspection and testing. Appendices on design, typical weld details, avoidance of hydrogen cracking, solidification cracking, lamellar tearing and guidance on acceptance levels.