A local company is offering a manufactured tie for reinforced concrete columns. The ties are pencil rod resistance welded to rebar and can be ordered in lengths specified for the column. While resistance welding meets the definition of a weldment it also brings up questions of arc strikes and tacking from AWS D1.4 sections 5.3 and 5.4. Since the resistance weld is the completed weld and no filler metal is used but the arc is a localized application of heat similar to an arc strike would this be considered detrimental to the reinforcing bar? The rebar is 60 grade #3 ASTM A615 and no preheat is used. CE is not specified.