Interpretation of technical specification sentence

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Hello,Any help that can be offered to assist my interpretation of the following sentence from a technical specification will be greatly appreciated.  I am trying to resolve an interpretation conflict.  The sentence in question follows:"Cylinder hydraulic tubes which have been welded shall be stress relief heat treated and all welds shall be radiographed including those on the trunnion mounts."This sentences before and after this one are unrelated to stress relief heat treating, welds, and trunnion mounts so context is limited.According to accepted grammatical rules, does the subject sentence require that welds between cylinder hydraulic tubes and trunnion mounts be stress relief heat treated?Is background information about the cylinder hydraulic tubes required to answer this question?  The machines being built can be constructed of continuous hydraulic tubes with no welded seams or of previously fabricated hydraulic tubes that do have welded seams.  In either case, the seamless or previously welded hydraulic tubes must be welded to trunnion mounts.  Does this background information impact the technically proper interpretation of the subject specification sentence?Thank you.-Dave

Clive · Accepted Answer

"Cylinder hydraulic tubes which have been welded shall be stress-relief heat-treated and all welds shall be radiographed including those on the trunnion mounts."

Did the original version include the two hyphens I have added? Without them, the grammar becomes harder to interpret precisely.

Was there a comma before 'including'?

Clive

Wayintense · Answer

Hello Clive,

Thank you for responding. I just checked the original document and the sentence in question does not have any commas or hyphens.

Dave

Clive · Answer

Any help that can be offered to assist my interpretation of the following sentence from a technical specification will be greatly appreciated. I am trying to resolve an interpretation conflict. The sentence in question follows:

"Cylinder hydraulic tubes which have been welded shall be stress relief heat treated and all welds shall be radiographed including those on the trunnion mounts."

This sentences before and after this one are unrelated to stress relief heat treating, welds, and trunnion mounts so context is limited.

According to accepted grammatical rules, does the subject sentence require that welds between cylinder hydraulic tubes and trunnion mounts be stress relief heat treated? I think 'Yes', but it is left a little unclear. It might be clear to someone who is familiar with the overall technology.
The writer of this sentence could easily have made the matter clear, if he had wished to.

The lack of hyphens requires the reader to be familiar with the concepts of 'stress relief' and 'heat treated'.
An uninformed layman might, for example, wonder mistakenly about the concept of 'stress relief heat'.

Is background information about the cylinder hydraulic tubes required to answer this question? Yes

The machines being built can be constructed of continuous hydraulic tubes with no welded seams or of previously fabricated hydraulic tubes that do have welded seams. In either case, the seamless or previously welded hydraulic tubes must be welded to trunnion mounts. Does this background information impact the technically proper interpretation of the subject specification sentence? Yes

Clive

Wayintense · Answer

Thank you Clive for your help here. Great to have a second opinion. Much thanks!

-Dave

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