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 cold cracking 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 product forms.

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.