Welding alloys, also known as filler alloys, are consumables used during a welding process to fill in the gap between two edges being joined. The filler alloy melts into the weld pool along with a portion of the base metals of the work piece and solidifies into a weld joint metal. The composition of the weld joint metal is a mixture of the filler alloy and base metal.
Sub categories of various products in Welding Alloys
Arc Welding
Ordinary welding wires are made to match a standard base metal analysis. Most base metals are rolled, forged, or heat-treated, which improves their physical properties. With ordinary electrodes, the melting and resolidification process changes the deposit structure completely from that of the base metal. The Magna difference is in the microstructure of the weld metal. Magna alloys contain rare earth compounds, special alloying elements, deoxidizers and stabilizers. These compensate for the transformation of the electrode composition during the critical melting and resolidification phases