deckerfaw
I would be confused too from your question. Was this a stud or Reinforcing Steel
AWS D1.4 is for Reinforcing Steel and AWS D1.1 is for Structural with Clause 7 being for Studs.
I believe your inspector is trying to much here Rebar is not to be confused with Studs two different things, Tell the inspector to tighten up.
Good Luck
Marshall
I think your inspector might be wrong on this one... unless your iron was a shot-on DBA, in which case I would treat it as a stud under D1.1.
A bent bar with the tail flare bevel welded to structural steel, visual inspection only. Unless there was something in the Plans or Specs. Was this preproduction testing?
By Duke
Date 12-05-2009 18:15
Edited 12-05-2009 18:17
I took a couple of days off once, (a long long time ago) studs were getting shot thru deck in the field, and the inspector they sent out to replace me did that, bending till failure, on pre production testing in the field, he confused 7.6 with 7.7, when I came back, the welders told me the replacement almost went in the hole. Oh, and he was bending SMAW welds studs, too.
95% of inspectors are godlike in intelligence, but every once in a while....