The invention discloses a
welding electrode for high-current
argon tungsten-
arc welding and a preparation method of the
welding electrode, and belongs to the technical field of
welding materials. The welding
electrode comprises a columnar base body and a discharging end face. The columnar base body is formed by welding a
tungsten rod and a
copper rod through
electric arc welding; the
discharge end face is located at the end of the
tungsten rod, and 2-4 regularly-distributed convex points are arranged on the surface of the
discharge end face and serve as arc
discharge points. The preparation method comprises the steps of material pretreatment, positioning and clamping,
nickel powder coating, welding parameter setting,
copper-tungsten welding,
welding joint cleaning,
salient point structure manufacturing,
copper electrode heat dissipation channel manufacturing and quality inspection. A copper-tungsten
composite structure is adopted, a plurality of discharge protruding points are arranged at the end of the
tungsten electrode, the single-point burn-out rate is remarkably reduced by dispersing
electric arc heat loads, rapid metallurgical bonding of a copper bar and a tungsten bar is achieved through the
electric arc welding technology, the burn-out resistance service life is greatly prolonged, the electric
arc stability is greatly improved, and the welding rod is suitable for large-current welding, aluminum
alloy beveling welding and the like.