CCS RULES FOR MATERIALS AND WELDING

The China Register Rules for materials and welding commonly applied in construction and repair works. The content of the rulebook is arranged in three major parts. The first part is dealing with the metallic materials including general provisions, survey and testing requirements, material tests - tensile, impact, bend, z-direction tensile tests, ductility and others, steel plates, flat steel bars and sections, steel castings and forgings, tubes and pipes, aluminum alloys, iron castings, non -ferrous materials, shipboard equipment - anchors, chain cables, wire ropes, mooring chains etc.

The second part is covering non-metallic materials such as plastics and FRP, concrete, skirt materials, and fiber ropes. The last part of the book has been devoted to welding including welding consumables, approval of the procedures welding of ship hull structures, welder qualification tests, welding of various offshore structures, pressure shells, pressure pipes, submarine pipelines, and machinery components.

Particular attention has been paid to the welding and riveting of various non-ferrous materials such as aluminum and titanium alloys, marine copper and alloys. The archive includes two files with the amendments.