Download or read book AWS A5. 4/A5. 4M-2012, Specification for Stainless Steel Electrodes for Shielded Metal Arc Welding written by American Welding Society. Committee on Filler Metals and Allied Materials and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composition and other requirements are specified for more than forty classifications of covered stainless steel welding electrodes. The requirements include general requirements, testing, and packaging. Annex A provides application guidelines and other useful information about the electrodes. This specification makes use of both U.S. Customary Units and the International System of Units [SI]. Since these are not equivalent, each system must be used independently of the other.