Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Metals; Metallurgy

This organization has specified common and alloy steels and copper base alloys in accordance with a numerical index system allowing approximation of the composition of the metal. The last two digits ...

rule die steel

Metals; Metallurgy

A hardened and tempered medium high carbon spring steel strip sufficiently low in hardness to take moderately sharp bends without fracture, intended for manufacture into rule dies for the purpose of ...

rough machining

Metals; Metallurgy

Machining without regard to finish, usually to be followed by a subsequent operation.

roller leveling

Metals; Metallurgy

Passing sheet or strip metal through a series of staggered small rolls so as to flatten the metal. This method is relatively ineffective in removing defects such as buckles, wavy edges, corrugations, ...

rolling

Metals; Metallurgy

A term applied to the operation of shaping and reducing metal in thickness by passing it between rolls which compress, shape and lengthen it following the roll pattern.

rockwell hardness

Metals; Metallurgy

A standard method for measuring the hardness of metals. The hardness is expressed as a number related to the depth of residual penetration of a steel ball or diamond cone (brale) after a minor load ...

rolled edges

Metals; Metallurgy

Finished edges, the final contours of which are produced by side or edging rolls. The edge contours most commonly used are square corners, rounded corners and rounded edge.