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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (D) | Enfield Tubes
...alloy to deform without cracking or failing under tensile loads. Materials with low ductility exhibit brittle behaviour and fail at more modest loads. Ductility typically decreases at lower temperatures...
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (I) | Enfield Tubes
...y deleterious and usually caused by the precipitation of carbide particles in the grain boundaries after welding or incorrect thermal processing. Related terms: Sensitisation , Sensitised , Weld Decay
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (F) | Enfield Tubes
...fluctuating, loads that are lower, often much lower, than the static yield strength of the material. Good design is the key to minimising or mitigating fatigue problems. Ferrite A body centred cubic (BCC)...
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (S) | Enfield Tubes
...usually re-coiled after slitting. Solid Solution The name given to an alloy, e.g. Iron Chromium, phase which appears, in the microstructure, to be one material. In Iron Chromium solid solutions the Iron...
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Metal Glossary for Aluminium (A) | Enfield Tubes
...usual to perform ageing at higher temperatures. It should be noted that routinely operating aged alloys at unusually high ambient temperatures will permit further ageing and even over ageing leading to...
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (M) | Enfield Tubes
...evaluate the ability of the work-piece to withstand possibly severe manipulation. Crush, flare, bend, flare and flange, flatten, reverse flatten, reverse bend and Van Stone flange tests may be used. Martensite...
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (P) | Enfield Tubes
...residual contaminants can act as sites for corrosion cells. Heavy contamination or other contaminants (mill scale, etc.) should be removed by acid pickling before passivation. Passive Film , Oxide Film...
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Metal Glossary for Stainless Steel (C) | Enfield Tubes
...usual methods to determine such a deviation are with a straight edge and dial gauge or a flat plate and feeler gauges. Carbide Precipitation This occurs in an alloy when the thermal conditions and processing...
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Metal Glossary for Aluminium (Q) | Enfield Tubes
...alloy from the solution treatment temperature by contact with a solid, a liquid or a gas to retain the hardening constituents in solid solution. Quenching is often carried out by immersion in cold water....
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Metal Glossary for Aluminium (N) | Enfield Tubes
...alloys after a period of time at ambient (room) temperature. It is caused by the spontaneous precipitation of constituents from a super-saturated solid solution. Generally it increases mechanical properties...