Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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Shear steel

Metals; Metallurgy

Steel produced by forge welding together several bars of blister steel, providing a more homogeneous product.

Shear

Metals; Metallurgy

That type of force that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of the same body to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

Sliver

Metals; Metallurgy

Loose metal piece rolled down onto the surface of the metal during the rolling operations.

Soft skin rolled temper

Metals; Metallurgy

In low carbon-rolled strip steel, soft and ductile. Produced by subjecting annealed strip to a pinch pass or skin rolling (a very light rolling).

Solder embrittlement

Metals; Metallurgy

Reduction in ductility of a metal or alloy, associated with local penetration by molten solder along grain boundaries.

Soldering

Metals; Metallurgy

Joining metals by fusion of alloys that have relatively low melting points -- most commonly, lead-base or tin-base alloys, which are the soft solders. Hard solders are alloys that have silver, ...