An electrical discharge machining electrode wire includes a core including a copper or a copper alloy, and a covering layer that covers a periphery of the core and includes a zinc. The covering layer includes an outermost layer consisting of an -phase of a copper-zinc based alloy. The outermost layer has a Cu concentration of 12 to 20 mass % and a variation range within 5 mass % in the Cu concentration in a longitudinal direction of the electrode wire.

A flux-cored wire for gas shielded arc welding is provided which affords excellent welding workability for high heat input welding and enables weld metal having good mechanical properties to be obtained. The flux-cored wire for gas shielded arc welding includes C, Mn, Si, elemental Ti, elemental Al, Fe, ZrO.sub.2, TiO.sub.2, and NaF, each within a predetermined range relative to the total mass of the wire. In the flux-cored wire, 1[ZrO.sub.2]/[NaF]50 is satisfied, where [ZrO.sub.2] is the ZrO.sub.2 content, and [NaF] is the NaF content.

A heat transfer tube includes: a tube body made of an extruded material of an aluminum alloy having a composition including: 0.3 mass % or more and less than 0.8 mass % of Mn; more than 0.1 mass % and less than 0.32 mass % of Si; 0.3 mass % or less of Fe; 0.06 mass % or more and 0.3 mass % or less of Ti; and Al balance including inevitable impurities, a ratio of a Mn content to a Si content, Mn %/Si %, exceeding 2.5; and a Zn-containing layer provided to an outer surface of the tube body.

A full slag covering, spatter-free flux-cored welding wire, relating to the technical field of welding material formulations, which includes a flux core and a metal sheath, wherein the flux core is a slag system based on a neutral slag of calcium oxide-titanium dioxide-aluminum oxide; and molten drops are prevented from flying out to form spatters under the action of liquid slag in a welding process. The flux core is composed of rutile, fluoride, titanate, aluminum powder, manganese powder, chromium powder, molybdenum powder and iron powder, and mass percentages of respective components are: 15%-35% rutile, 15%-35% fluoride, 3%-7% calcium titanate, 5%-10% aluminum powder, 10%-20% manganese powder, 3%-5% chromium powder, 3%-15% molybdenum powder, and a remainder is iron powder or nickel powder. The present welding wire solves the technical problems of weld spatter and poor stability in the traditional welding process.

It is an object to provide a stainless steel flux-cored wire in which the amount of hexavalent chromium in fume can be reduced while maintaining the weldability excellent. The stainless steel flux-cored wire contains, as percentage to the total mass of the wire: Cr: 11-30 mass %; metal Si, Si oxide and Si compound: 0.5-4.0 mass % in total in terms of Si [Si]; fluorine compound: 0.01-1.0 mass % in terms of F [F]; TiO.sub.2: 1.5 mass % or above; ZrO.sub.2+Al.sub.2O.sub.3: 3.2 mass % or below; Na compound, K compound and Li compound: 0.50 mass % or below in total of each of an amount in terms of Na [Na], an amount in terms of K [K] and an amount in terms of Li [Li]; and satisfies {([Na]+[K]+[Li])[Cr].sup.2}/([Si]+4.7[F])10, where [Cr] represents Cr content.

Disclosed is a method for performing gas-shielded pulsed arc welding at high current densities with a flux-cored wire as an electrode wire. The pulsed arc welding is carried out by passing a pulsed current so that a pulse peak current density during a pulse peak time Tp is 400 to 950 A/mm.sup.2, a pulse base current density during a pulse base time Tb is 200 A/mm.sup.2 or more and differs from the pulse peak current density by 200 to 400 A/mm.sup.2, and an average current density is 350 to 750 A/mm.sup.2. The method allows significant spatter reduction while attaining a high deposition rate.

A flux-cored wire includes by mass %: C in a skin of 0.04 to 0.08% w.r.t. a total mass of the skin, w.r.t. a total mass of the wire by a sum of the skin and flux: C: 0.05 to 0.12%, Si: 0.1 to 0.6%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.5%, B: 0.002 to 0.015%, a sum of Al.sub.2O.sub.3 conversion value of Al and Al.sub.2O.sub.3 conversion value of an Al oxide: 0.3 to 1.5%, and w.r.t. the total mass of the wire in the flux: Mg: 0.2 to 0.8%, and sums of TiO.sub.2 conversion value of a Ti oxide: 5 to 10%, SiO.sub.2 conversion value of a Si oxide: 0.2 to 0.7%, ZrO.sub.2 conversion value of a Zr oxide: 0.1 to 0.6%, F conversion value of a fluorine compound: 0.02 to 0.15%, and Na.sub.2O conversion value and a K.sub.2O conversion value of a Na compound and a K compound: 0.03 to 0.20%.

Disclosed herein is an electroslag welding wire containing, by mass % based on total mass of the wire: C: more than 0% and 0.07% or less; Si: more than 0% and 0.50% or less; Mn: more than 0% and 1.0% or less; Ni: 6.0 to 15.0%; and Fe: 79% or more. The electroslag welding wire satisfies the following relationship (1): 0.150CSi/30+Mn/20+Ni/600.300 (1).

Disclosed herein is a flux-cored wire for gas-shielded arc welding containing, based on total mass of the wire: C: from 0.03 to 0.12 mass %; Si in terms of Si in Si alloy and Si compound: from 0.20 to 0.70 mass %; Mn: from 1.0 to 4.0 mass %; Ti in terms of Ti in Ti alloy and Ti compound: from 2.4 to 4.5 mass %; Al: from 0.005 to 0.050 mass %; Ca: from 0.03 to 1.0 mass %; at least one of Ni: from 0.30 to 3.50 mass % and B: from 0.0008 to 0.012 mass %; and Fe: 80 mass % or more, and satisfies: (Ti+Mn+Al+Ca)/Si12; and Ca/Si: from 0.07 to 0.35.

A flux-cored wire for gas-shielded arc welding, contains, based on the total mass of the wire: C: from 0.03 to 0.12 mass %; Si in terms of Si in Si alloy and Si compound: from 0.10 to 0.50 mass %; Mn: from 1.0 to 4.0 mass %; Ti in terms of Ti in Ti alloy and Ti compound: from 2.4 to 4.5 mass %; Al: from 0.005 to 0.050 mass %; at least one of Ni: from 0.30 to 3.50 mass % and B: from 0.0008 to 0.012 mass %; and Fe: 80 mass % or more, and satisfies (Ti+Mn+Al)/Si15.