Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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Metallurgy

hot shortness

Metals; Metallurgy

Brittleness in metal in the hot forming range.

hot short

Metals; Metallurgy

Brittleness in hot metal.

Hooke's Law

Metals; Metallurgy

Stress is proportional to strain in the elastic range. The value of the stress at which a material ceases to obey Hooke's law is known as the elastic limit.

honing

Metals; Metallurgy

Removing stock generally on the internal cylindrical surface of a work piece with an abrasive stick mounted in a holder.

homogenizing annealing

Metals; Metallurgy

An annealing treatment carried out at a high temperature, approaching the solidus temperature, for a sufficiently long time that inhomogeneous distributions of alloying elements are reduced by ...

full finish plate

Metals; Metallurgy

Steel sheet or strip, reduced either hot or cold, cleaned, annealed, and then cold-rolled to a bright finish.

fretting corrosion

Metals; Metallurgy

Action that results in surface damage, especially in a corrosive environment, when there is relative motion between solid surfaces in contact under pressure.