Fillet welds joining the connection plates to the beam and column provided on all of the SidePlate test specimens have been made by either of the self-shielded flux cored arc welding processes (FCAW-S or FCAW-G), with a few specimens using the submerged arc welding process (SAW) for certain shop fillet welds. Other than the original three prototype tests in 1994 and 1995 that used a non-notch-tough weld electrode, tested electrodes satisfy minimum Charpy V-notch toughness as required by the 2010 AISC Seismic Provisions. Also, it should be noted that typically the test specimens were fitted and tacked together using an E7018 stick electrode and then welded with an FCAW process (implying that the intermixing of FCAW and E7018 has been tested and is not of concern). Test specimens that included either a field CJP groove-welded beam-to-beam splice or field fillet welds specifically utilized E70T-6 for the horizontal position and E71T-8 for the vertical position.
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