Thank you larry, that was extremely helpful, D1.3 and D1.6 look like they will contain the information I need.
As we all know there is a large spectrum of welding quality from the backyard and small shops with "Design by experience" up to Pressure vessels flight critical and nuclear code that call for procedure qualification, NDT, etc etc. Most shops fall somewhere in between. right now I would say we are definately pointing towards the "design by experience" type of philosophy. The engineers and fab shop actually seem pretty receptive to change and improvements in welding design and communication. However I don't think they are ready to make the jump to code quality work. I mentioned it in another post but I am the only engineer with any practical welding experience and welding design experience, there is no CWI, and none of our work is certified or specified by our customers.
We definately are to the point where our volume and quality are high enough that we could benefit from even very general procedures and codes to follow. I'll be pushing the approval of those code books hard on my boss, but I'm just an intern. I'm also going to try to create a general WPS for our GMAW and GTAW processes so that welders are using higher heat, faster travel and correct penetration and buildup.
Thanks for the help, I just got a weldment print on my desk about 20 minutes ago that has no welding symbols (ha!) a note from the welders asking to clarify welding order (or there's interference issues later on). Also they have a question asking 'fuse welded how? 1" @6" ctr-ctr or 1" @4" ctr-ctr'
The shop is definately ready for some correctly designed joints