**3. Conclusions**

1. Increasing weld current, increases heat input, time of cooling and of solidification, metal deposition rate and nugget area, but decreases cooling rate. *Effect of Welding Variables on the Quality of Weldments DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.103175*


#### **Table 4.**

*Nugget weld area of 316SS specimens welded using different welding current values and filler metals and pure Ar shielding gas [26].*

