Do you know the material to be welded?

If your work involves completing shop welds or repairing machinery and structures within the field how would you approach trying to figure out what type and grade of metal you’re working with?
Our biggest tip. If you don’t know what it's, don’t attempt to weld it.
Extreme but true, because it could lead to critical parts failing and causing injury or worse still, death. an enormous enough reason that material identification is important to understand what and the way you're visiting weld.
If you're reading this you recognize that welding on some metals using inappropriate welding procedures could possibly cause defects within the base metal, the weld, or both.
Material identification, characterisation and verification are essential for businesses to make sure their materials or products are manufactured to the proper alloy grade and conform to national or international codes and standards.