AWS A5.01 : 93(R1999)

Personnel
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Certification
3 Manufacturer's quality assurance system
4 Definitions and identification of materials
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Definitions
4.3 Identification of consumable inserts, brazing and
     braze welding filler metal, solid electrode wire,
     rods, strip, core wire for covered electrodes, and
     the sheath (strip or tubing) of composite
     electrodes
4.4 Identification of covering mix
4.5 Identification of core ingredients
5 Lot classification
5.1 Covered electrodes
5.2 Bare solid electrodes and rods, brazing and braze
     welding filler metal, and consumable inserts
5.3 Flux cored electrodes and metal cored electrodes
     and rods
5.4 Flux for submerged arc welding and brazing and
     braze welding
6 Level of testing
6.1 General provisions
6.2 Schedule F
6.3 Schedule G
6.4 Schedule H
6.5 Schedule I
6.6 Schedule J
6.7 Schedule K
7 Retest
8 Supplementary requirements - department of defense
8.1 Inspection requirements
8.2 Alloy identity
8.3 Responsibility for compliance
Appendix
A1 Introduction
A2 General information
AWS filler metal specifications and related documents
Tables
1 Level of testing
2 Schedule I - required tests
A1 Suggested procurement detail form for covered
     electrodes
A2 Suggested procurement detail form for bare solid
     electrodes and rods
A3 Suggested procurement detail form for flux cored
     and metal cored electrodes and rods
A4 Suggested procurement detail form for submerged arc
     electrodes and flux and brazing and braze welding
     filler metal
A5 Suggested procurement detail form for consumable
     inserts
A6 Example of use of the procurement detail form for
     covered electrodes
A7 Example of use of the procurement detail form for
     bare solid aluminum electrodes and rods

Outlines a method for providing, those details needed for procurement of filler metal to an AWS specification, being the following: the filler metal classification; the lot classification and the level of testing. Coverage includes manufacturer's quality assurance system, definitions and identification of materials, lot classification, level of testing. Also gives detailed tables.