Steel

Steel

Steel is a type of metal forged with iron and coal that is lighter and stronger than iron.

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seamless tube

Metals; Steel

Seamless tubes have greater strength than welded tubes because of their homogenous microstructure, but are much more expensive to manufacture. They are made by rolling a preheated billet between ...

Alloy steels are steels in which additional elements have been added to the usual iron, carbon, manganese and silicon that is present in ordinary carbon steels in order to improve their properties ...

boron steel

Metals; Steel

The addition of boron to steel allows the achievement of higher strength after hardening by heat treatment, but offers a workable material to the fabricator or manufacturer when in the “as-delivered” ...

breakout

Metals; Steel

A condition that spills out molten liquids when the refractory lining of a blast furnace fails, especially if it occurs below the molten iron or slag level. In addition to possible injury or death to ...

brownfield

Metals; Steel

Land which used to be industrial, commercial sites. In the steel industry brownfield often applies to sites selected within urban areas for new distribution facilities or additional steel capacity. ...

carbon steel

Metals; Steel

Plain ordinary grades of steel with no significant alloy content. This is often used in contrast to other specialized steels such as alloy steel.

cogging mill

Metals; Steel

A heavy duty rolling mill for shaping reheated steel ingots into blooms or slabs which has largely been phased out by the continuous casting of steel directly into these shapes. The mill allows the ...