This standard American Welding Society (AWS). 2010. 68p. This specification prescribes requirements for the classification of flux cored stainless steel electrodes for flux cored arc welding, flux cored stainless steel rods for root pass welding with the gas tungsten arc process, and metal cored stainless steel electrodes for gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, plasma arc welding, submerged arc welding, and any other process to which they may be applied.