A four-hour seminar on the implementation of the 2010 AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 360-10) Chapter N on Quality Control and Quality Assurance, which incorporates documentation, inspection personnel qualifications, welding inspection tasks, nondestructive testing, bolting inspection tasks, inspection of steel details, inspection of steel decks, inspection of steel stud shear connectors, and approval of fabricators and erectors.

Introduction to AISC 360 Chapter N
N1. Scope
    • Quality control
    • Quality assurance
    • Coordination with IBC 2009 and earlier versions
    • IBC 2012 adoption of AISC 360 by reference for special inspection of steel construction
N2. Fabricator’s and Erector’s Quality Control Program
    • Quality control procedures and inspections
    • Fabricators – material control, welding, bolting, details, cutting, heating, tolerances
    • Erectors – welding, bolting, details, cutting, heating, steel deck, stud shear connectors, tolerances
N3. Fabricator’s and Erector’s Documents
    • Submittals for steel construction
    • Available documents for steel construction – materials, welding, quality control program, inspector qualifications
N4. Inspection and Nondestructive Testing Personnel
    • Quality Control Inspector qualifications
    • Quality Assurance Inspector qualifications
    • NDT personnel qualifications
N5. Minimum Requirements for Inspection of Structural Steel Buildings
    • Quality Control functions
    • Quality Assurance functions
Inspection of welding
    • Observe, suitable intervals, perform
    • Inspection tasks before welding, during welding, and after welding
    • Nondestructive testing
Inspection of bolting
    • Observe, perform
    • Inspection tasks before bolting, during bolting, and after bolting
Other inspection tasks
    • Details, anchor rods
N6. Minimum Requirements for Inspection of Composite Construction
    • Placement and installation of steel floor and roof decks
    • Placement and installation of steel stud anchors
N7. Approved Fabricators and Erectors
    • Waiver or reduction of inspection
    • Certificates of compliance
N8. Nonconforming Materials and Workmanship
AISC 341 Chapter J – QC and QA
    • Additional requirements for seismic load resisting systems