Journal: The Paton Welding Journal
Year: 2014

Processes of welding wire heating and melting, electrode metal drop formation and transfer in consumable electrode welding largely determine welding efficiency and quality.In its turn, the nature of metal melting and transfer with this welding process is determined by a large number of such physical phenomena as heat and mass transfer, gas(hydro)dynamics, electromagnetic processes, running in arc plasma, on the surface and in the volume of molten electrode metal-drop.This paper gives a review of