Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

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Air cooling

Metals; Metallurgy

Cooling of the heated metal, intermediate in rapidity between slow furnace cooling and quenching, in which the metal is permitted to stand in the open air.

A steel containing sufficient carbon and other alloying elements to harden fully during cooling in air or other gaseous mediums from a temperature above its transformation range. Such steels attain ...

Alclad

Metals; Metallurgy

Composite sheet produced by bonding either corrosion-resistant aluminium alloy or aluminium of high purity to base metal of structurally stronger aluminium alloy. The coatings are anodic to the core ...

Structure

Metals; Metallurgy

The arrangement of parts; in crystals, especially, the shape and dimension of the until cell, and the number, kinds and positions of the atoms within it.

Stretcher strains

Metals; Metallurgy

Elongated markings that appear on the surface of some materials when deformed just past the yield point. These markings lie approximately parallel to the direction of maximum shear stress and are the ...