Aluminum

Aluminum

Industry: Metals

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Aluminum

A measure of the change in size or shape of a body under stress, referred to its original size or shape. Tensile or compressive strain is the change, due to force, per unity of length in an original ...

rivet

Metals; Aluminum

To connect two or more pieces of material by inserting in a hole through them a metal pin with a head on one end of it, and then forming a second head on the other end.

rod

Metals; Aluminum

A solid wrought product, long in relation to its cross-section, which is not less than 0. 375 inch in diameter. (Smaller sizes are classified as wire).

rib

Metals; Aluminum

An elongated projection on a shape, forging or casting to provide stiffening.

ring tooling

Metals; Aluminum

A cylindrical sleeve that holds the die and backer in axial relationship to each other.

restrictor bumps

Metals; Aluminum

A bulge or hump in the die's metal flow area serving as a means of controlling the flow or feed of metal.

residual stresses

Metals; Aluminum

Those stresses set up within a metal as the result of non-uniform plastic deformation which may be caused by drastic temperature gradients in quenching.