Home Metal Glossary Metal Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abrasion Acid Steel Activation Aging Air-Hardening Steel Alclad Alloy Steel Aluminizing Annealing Atomic-Hydrogen Welding Austempering Austenite Austenitizing B Bainite Banded Structure Bark Basic Steel Bearing Load Bearing Strength Bend Test Bent Radius Bessemer Process Billet Blister Bloom Blue Annealing Blue Brittleness Bluing Box Annealing Bright Annealing Brinell Hardness Brittle Fracture Burning Burnishing C Camber Canning Capped Steel Carbon Steel Carbonitriding Carburizing Case Hardening Cementite Centrifugal Casting Ceramic Tools Chamfer Charpy Test Chemical Milling Chromidizing (Chromodizing, Chromatizing) Chromizing Clad Metal Coil Breaks Cold Short Cold Shut Cold Work Compressive Strength Continuous Casting Corrosion Embrittlement Corrosion Fatigue Covered Electrode Creep Creep Limit Creep Strength Crevice Erosion Critical Cooling Rate Critical Point Cross Rolling Crown Cutting Speed Cyaniding D DC (Direct Chill) Casting Decarburization Drawing Drop Forging Drop Hammer Ductility Duralumin (obsolete) E Earing Eddy-Current Testing Elastic Limit Elongation Endurance Limit F Fatigue Fatigue Life Fatigue Limit Fatigue Strength Ferrite Ferrite Banding Fiber Stress Flakes Flame Annealing Flame Hardening Flash Flash Welding Foil Forging Fracture Test Free Machining Full Annealing G Galling Galvanic Corrosion Grain Size Granular Fracture Graphitizing Gray Cast Iron Grinding Cracks Gun Drill H Hammer Forging Hard Chromium Hardenability Hardening Heat-Affected Zone Homogenizing Honing Hot Shortness Hot Top I Immersed Scanning Impact Energy (Impact Value) Impact Test Inclusions Induction Hardening Inert-Gas Shield-Arc Welding Ingot Iron Investment Casting Izod Test K Killed Steel Kip L Laminations Lap Light Metal Longitudinal Direction Low-Hydrogen Electrode M Machinability Machinability Index Magnetic-Particle Inspection Martempering Martensite Mechanical Properties Modulus of Elasticity N Nitriding Normalizing O Open-Heart Furnace Orange Peel Overheating Oxygen-Free Copper P Pancake Forging Pearlite Peening Physical Properties Pickling Pig Iron Pipe Pitting Planishing Postheating Precipitation Hardening Preheating Press Forging Primes Process Annealing Proof Stress Proportional Limit Q Quench Hardening R Recrystallisation Recrystallisation Temperature Reduction of Area Refractory Metal Residual Stress Rimmed Steel Roller Leveling Rough Machining S Scab Scaling Scalped Intrusion Ingot Scarfing Seam Secondary Hardening Segregation Semikilled Sendzimir Shear Strength Shell Molding Shield-Arc Welding Shortness Siliconing Skelp Slack Quenching Solid Solution Solution Heat Treatment Spalling Spheroidizing Sport Welding Stabilizing Treatment Steel Sterling Silver Strain Stress Stress Relieving Stress-Corrosion Cracking Stress-Rupture Test Stretcher Leveling Stretcher Straightening Stretcher Strains Superalloy Superficial Rockwell Hardness Test T Tack Welds Temper Temper Brittleness Tempering Tensile Strength Torsion Toughness Transformation Ranges (Transformation Temperature) Transition Temperature Transverse Trepanning U Ultimate Strength Ultrasonic Frequency Ultrasonic Waves Universal Mill V Vacuum Melting W Wrought Iron Y Yield Point Yield Strength