Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘H’ Habitat – It means the natural home of a living organism. The three components of wildlife habitat are food, water, and shelter. Habit plane – It is the plane or system of planes of a crystalline phase along which some …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘G’ Gabbro – It is a dark, coarse-grained igneous rock. Gable – It is the normally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘F’ Fabric – It is a material made of woven fibers or filaments. It is a planar textile which is also known as cloth. Fabricated valve – It is a valve in which the body is neither cast nor forged but …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘E’ Earing – It is the wavy symmetrical projections formed during cupping, deep drawing, or spinning. It is the formation of ears or scalloped edges around the top of a drawn shell, resulting from the directional differences in the plastic-working properties …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘D’ Dalton (Da) – It is also known as unified atomic mass unit (u). It is a unit of mass defined as 1/12 of the mass of a free unexcited atom of carbon-12 at rest. It is approximately equal to the mass of one nucleon. Dalton’s law of partial …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘C’ Cable – It is a line made of rope, chain or wire which has different functions as per the application it is used for. It can either tie together two points or simply connect them, as in electricity conveyance or data …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘B’ Babbitt metal, Babbitt – It is a non-ferrous bearing alloy originated by Isaac Babbitt in 1839. Presently, the term includes several tin-base alloys consisting mainly of different quantities of copper, antimony, tin, and lead. Lead-base Babbitt metals are also used. …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘A’ A15 superconductors – The term A15 refers to a cubic crystal type in the Strukturbericht System represented by the example Cr3Si. The intermetallic A3B compound is formed by a body-centered cubic (bcc) arrangement of B atoms with two A atoms …
Read MoreElectrical Drives and Controls An electric motor is a device which converts electrical energy to mechanical energy. It can also be viewed as a device which transfers energy from an electrical source to a mechanical load. The system in which the motor is located and makes it spin is called the drive, and is also …
Read MoreVigilant Organization All organizations are vulnerable to missing signals because of the limited attention, competing priorities, and frequently, a lack of curiosity. When uncertainty increases, top performing organizations stay ahead since they know where to look for warning signs and how to explore their environment. The truly vigilant organization manages a process which routinely and …
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