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Heat Treatment of Steel Heat Treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of metals to alter their physical and mechanical properties without changing the product shape. Heat treatment is sometimes done inadvertently due to manufacturing processes that either heat...
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Stainless Steel In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French “inoxydable”, is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not readily corrode, rust or stain with water as ordinary...
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Nichrome Nichrome (NiCr, nickel-chrome, chrome-nickel, etc.) generally refers to any alloy of nickel, chromium, and often iron and/or other elements or substances. Nichrome alloys are typically used in resistance wire. They are also used in some dental restorations...
by admin | Jun 5, 2015 | sem1
Ferrous Alloys Ferrous alloys are iron based alloys that has extensive use in wide range of industries because of its flexibility to meet strength, toughness, and impact of diverse industrial applications. This flexibility depends on the heat treatment procedures,...
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Effects of alloying elements The different alloying elements have specific effects on the properties of a stainless steel. It is the combined effect of all the alloying elements, heat treatment, and, to some extent, impurities that determine the property profile of a...
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Significance of Alloying The common metals—iron, copper, zinc, lead, tin, aluminium, antimony, magnesium, nickel, manganese, etc., in the pure state provide us with a very limited range of properties, and it is a fact that, apart from the pure copper used for...
