IS 4353 : 1995 Submerged Arc Welding of Mild Steel and Low Alloy Steels - Recommendations

1 Scope

This standard covers recommendations on materials, equipment,plate-edge preparation and testing for automatic submerged arcwelding of mild and low alloy steels having a tensile strength notexceeding 588 N/mm²

2 References

IS 812 : 1957Glossary of terms relating to welding and cutting ofmetals

IS 2002 : 1992 Steelplates for pressure vessels for intermediate andhigh temperature service including boilers

IS 2041 : 1982 Steelplates for pressure vessels used at moderate andlow temperature

IS 2062 : 1992 Steelfor general structural purposes

IS 2825 : 1969 Codefor unfired pressure vessel

IS 3039 : 1988Specification for structural steels for construction ofhulls of ships

IS 3503 : 1966Specification for marine boilers, pressure vessels andwelded machinery structure

IS 3613 : 1974Acceptance tests for wire flux combinations for submerged arc welding

IS 7280 : 1974 Corewire electrodes for submerged arc welding ofstructural steels

IS 8500 : 1991Structural steel-microalloyed (medium and high strength qualities)

IS 9595 : 1980Recommendations for metal arc welding of carbon andcarbon manganese steels