Flux-cored wire stars in games sculpture

Corofil R60Ni2 flux cored wire from Murex Welding Products has been used by AK Heavy Engineering of Sheffield in the fabrication of Britain's tallest sculpture.

Corofil R60Ni2 flux cored wire from Murex Welding Products has been used by AK Heavy Engineering of Sheffield in the fabrication of Britain's tallest sculpture.

"B of the Bang" was commissioned to mark the success of the Manchester Commonwealth Games.

The whole structure is tilted at an angle of 30 degrees on the approach to the stadium, symbolising the burst of speed and energy of an athlete launching out of the blocks.

After consultations with Murex Welding Products, AK Heavy Engineering established that a welding consumable containing an additional 2% nickel was needed to avoid possible micro-cracking, without impairing the distinctive patina of weathering steel - Corofil R60Ni2 proved the answer.

It is a rutile flux cored wire designed to provide all positional welding and as a nominal 2.5% nickel weld metal has excellent toughness properties down to -60C.

"Corofil R60Ni2 flux cored wire is being used to weld the complex and highly stressed core together".

"This consumable was selected as it had been used on the famous Angel of the North sculpture".

"There it had been used to avoid any potential cracking problems", says Paul Madin, Fabrication Technical Manager at AK Heavy Engineering.

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