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.

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).

The invention concerns a brazing sheet comprising a core layer (5) and a braze cladding, said core layer (5) being aluminium or an aluminium alloy, said braze cladding comprising (a) a flux composite layer (2), which flux composite layer comprises a matrix of aluminium or an aluminium alloy, said matrix containing flux particles; (b) at least one filler alloy layer (1) not containing flux particles; and, (c) an aluminium or aluminium alloy layer (3) not containing flux particles, said layer forming the outermost surface of at least one side of the brazing sheet, wherein the flux composite layer (a) is positioned between said filler alloy layer (b) and said aluminium or aluminium alloy layer (c). The invention further concerns a method for its manufacturing, a cladding plate, use of the brazing sheet and a brazed heat exchanger.

Provided is a flux for submerged arc welding that has good welding workability and can reduce the diffusion hydrogen content in a weld metal using either an AC or a DC welding power source. The flux includes Al.sub.2O.sub.3: 15 to 35% by mass; SiO.sub.2: 10 to 30% by mass; MgO: 10 to 25% by mass; F expressed in terms of CaF.sub.2: 10 to 25% by mass; Mn expressed in terms of MnO: 3 to 20% by mass; Na expressed in terms of Na.sub.2O and/or K expressed in terms of K.sub.2O: 0.5 to 4.5% by mass in total; Fe expressed in terms of FeO: 0.5 to 8% by mass; and CaO: 6% by mass or less. A water-soluble SiO.sub.2 in the flux is less than 1% by mass. In addition, the flux has a composition that satisfies the following formula: 0.2[Mg/O]/([Al.sub.2O.sub.3]+[MnO])0.8.

The invention concerns a method for the manufacturing of a clad sheet product comprising a core layer (6) and at least one cladding layer, the method comprising rolling an assembly of a core layer and at least one cladding layer and reducing the thickness to a desired gauge, the core layer being made of an aluminium alloy, the at least one cladding layer comprising a centre section (2) and at least two edge sections (4, 5) positioned at opposite sides of the centre section (2) along the edges of the at least one cladding layer, the centre section being made of a material being an aluminium alloy or a composite material comprising a matrix of aluminium or an aluminium alloy, the edge sections along (4, 5) the edges being made of a material different from the material of the centre section, wherein the edge sections (4, 5) are cut off during or after the rolling. The invention further concerns a cladding plate useful in the method.

The disclosed technology generally relates to consumable electrode wires and more particularly to consumable electrode wires having a core-shell structure, where the core comprises aluminum. In one aspect, a welding wire comprises a sheath having a steel composition and a core surrounded by the sheath. The core comprises aluminum (Al) at a concentration between about 3 weight % and about 20 weight % on the basis of the total weight of the welding wire, where Al is in an elemental form or is alloyed with a different metal element. The disclosed technology also relates to welding methods and systems adapted for using the aluminum-comprising electrode wires.

The present disclosure provides a potassium aluminum fluoride (KAlF.sub.4) flux agent having improved properties such as a lower melting point which allows for the use of solders and alloys with lower melting points. The potassium aluminum fluoride (KAlF.sub.4) flux agent may also allow for faster brazing of standard alloys.

An aluminum alloy flux-cored welding wire and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the present disclosure, a mixed salt is used as a filler for the flux-cored welding wire, and a reaction between the mixed salt and a welding base metal is directly induced through welding heat to produce in situ nanoparticles, which not only reduces a production cost of the welding wire, but also enhances the bonding between the added particles and the base metal through the prominent wettability between the in-situ enhancement particles and the base metal; and a rare earth element is added to significantly refine grains, which provides a new idea for the selection of a flux-cored welding wire for 7XXX aluminum alloy welding.

An aluminum alloy flux-cored welding wire and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the present disclosure, a mixed salt is used as a filler for the flux-cored welding wire, and a reaction between the mixed salt and a welding base metal is directly induced through welding heat to produce in situ nanoparticles, which not only reduces a production cost of the welding wire, but also enhances the bonding between the added particles and the base metal through the prominent wettability between the in-situ enhancement particles and the base metal; and a rare earth element is added to significantly refine grains, which provides a new idea for the selection of a flux-cored welding wire for 7XXX aluminum alloy welding.

A brazing sheet includes a core material containing an aluminum alloy including magnesium, a bonding material laminated on at least one side of the core material, and a flux layer. The flux layer is laminated on one side of the bonding material and includes a flux composition. The flux composition includes [A] a flux component containing KAlF.sub.4, and [B] AlF.sub.3. A substance mass S1 (mol) of magnesium in the bonding material when heated at 585 C., a substance mass S2 (mol) of [A] the flux component containing KAlF.sub.4 in the flux layer and a substance mass S3 (mol) of [B] AlF.sub.3 satisfy the specific expression.