Steel glossary

A

• Abrasion
  
• Alloy
  
• Alloyed steels
  
• Aluminium
  
• Annealing
  
• Arc furnace
  
• As-rolled
  
• Austenisation
  
• Austenite
  

B

• Bar turing
  
• Bearing steels
  
• Billet
  
• Blast furnace
  
• Blasting
  
• Bloom
  
• Bolt
  
• Boron
  
• Boron steels
  
• Bright Steels
  
• Brinell hardness
  
• Burr
  

C

• Calcium
  
• Carbide distribution
  
• Carbon
  
• Carbon steels
  
• Carbonitriding
  
• Carburised
  
• Case hardening
  
• Case hardening alloyed steels
  
• Cast iron
  
• Casting
  
• Casting powder
  
• CCT Curve
  
• Chamfered
  
• Chamfering
  
• Chemical composition of steel
  
• Chips
  
• Chisel
  
• Chromium
  
• Chromium steels
  
• Cobalt
  
• Coil
  
• Cold drawn
  
• Cold drawn steels
  
• Cold rolling
  
• Cold work tool steels
  
• Compression resistance
  
• Compression Strenght
  
• Concentricity
  
• Connecting rod
  
• Continuous casting
  
• Cooling
  
• Copper
  
• Corrosion
  
• Crankshaft
  
• Crown
  
• Cutting ability
  

D

• Decarburisation
  
• Deflection
  
• Degassing
  
• Descaling
  
• Dimensional tolerance
  
• Ductility
  

E

• Eccentricity
  
• Eddy current
  
• EFS
  
• Electric furnace
  
• Elongation
  
• Embossing
  
• ESR
  
• Eurofer
  
• Euroforge
  

F

• Faced end
  
• Facing
  
• Forged bars
  
• Forged steels
  
• Forging
  
• Free cutting
  
• Free cutting steels
  
• Furnace
  

G

• Gear
  
• Globular annealing
  
• Grain size
  
• Granulation
  
• Grinding
  

H

• Hardenability
  
• Hardness
  
• Heat treatment
  
• High Speed Steels
  
• High-alloy steels
  
• Hot rolled bars
  
• Hot rolling
  
• Hot work tool steels
  
• Sickle
  

I

• Impact flexion
  
• Induction
  
• Induction furnace
  
• Induction quenching
  
• Ingot
  
• Iron
  
• Isothermal annealing
  

J

• Jominy Test
  

K

• Killed steels
  

L

• Ladle
  
• Lead
  

M

• Machinability
  
• Machining
  
• Magnetisation
  
• Manganese
  
• Martensite
  
• Mechanical characteristics
  
• Melting
  
• Metallurgy
  
• Microalloyed steels
  
• Microstructure
  
• Misalignment
  
• Molybdenum
  

N

• Necking
  
• Nickel
  
• Nitriding
  
• Nitrogen
  
• Non-metal inclusions
  
• Normalising
  

Ñ

• Necking
  
• Nickel
  
• Nitriding
  
• Nitrogen
  
• Non-metal inclusions
  
• Normalising
  

O

• Ovality
  
• Oxidation
  
• Oxygen-flame cutting
  

P

• Peeling
  
• Phosphorus
  
• Pickling
  
• Pig iron
  
• Pinions
  
• Polishing
  

Q

• Quenching
  
• Quenching and tempering
  
• Quenching and tempering alloyed steels
  

R

• Reamer
  
• Reaming
  
• Reduction
  
• Reduction ratio
  
• Refining
  
• Residuals in chemical composition
  
• Resilience
  
• Resulphurised steels
  
• Rockwell Hardness
  
• Rolled bars
  
• Rolling
  
• Rolling mills
  
• Roughness
  
• Rounding radius
  

S

• Rolled steels
  
• Scale
  
• Scrap
  
• Seamless tube or mechanical tube
  
• Shears
  
• Shot Blasting
  
• Sickle
  
• Silicon
  
• Special steels
  
• Specimen
  
• Spring steels
  
• Stainless steels
  
• Stamping
  
• Steel
  
• Steel distributor
  
• Steel stockist
  
• Straightness
  
• Strapping
  
• Stress relief
  
• Sulphur
  
• Superficial defect
  
• Surface treatment
  
• Weldability
  

T

• Tellurium
  
• Tempering
  
• Tenacity
  
• Tensile strength
  
• Test sample
  
• Titanium
  
• Tool steels
  
• Toughness
  
• Traceability
  
• TTT Curve
  
• Turning
  

U

• Ultrasound
  

V

• Vanadium
  
• Vickers hardness
  

W

• Waste in chemical composition
  
• Wear resistance
  
• Welding
  
• Welding
  
• Wire
  
• Wire drawing
  
• Wire rod
  
• Wolfram
  

X

There are no glossary items.

Y

• Yield strength
  

Z

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