This Standard specifies requirements for the welding of stainless steel structures made up of combinations of stainless steel plate, sheet, sections, including hollow sections and built-up sections, or castings and forgings, by the following processes:
(a) Manual metal arc welding (MMAW).
(b) Submerged arc welding (SAW).
(c) Gas metal arc welding (GMAW).
(d) Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW).
(e) Flux cored arc welding (FCAW).
(f) Plasma arc welding (PAW).
