Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘M’ Maceral -It is a component, organic in origin, of coal or oil shale. The term ‘maceral’ in reference to coal is analogous to the use of the term ‘mineral’ in reference to igneous or metamorphic rocks. Examples of macerals are …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘L L1 loss – It is also known as ‘mean absolute error’ (MAE). It is a loss function used in regression tasks which calculates the average absolute differences between predicted values from a machine learning model and the actual target values. L1 …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘K’ Ka-band – It refers to a high-frequency microwave range (roughly 27 giga-hertz to 40 giga-hertz) of the electro-magnetic spectrum, known for enabling high-bandwidth, high-data-rate applications like satellite internet, mobile broadband, and high-resolution radar, though its shorter wave-lengths make it more susceptible to …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘J’ J2-flow theory – It is also called von Mises plasticity. It is a widely used model in engineering for ductile materials (like metals) that predicts when yielding (permanent deformation) begins under complex loading, based on the principle that yielding occurs …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘I’ IACS – It means ‘International annealed copper standard is a measure of electrical conductivity agreed in 1913 with ‘pure’ copper set as 100 %. Advances in copper refining mean that now the pure Copper can attain 103 % IACS. The …
Read MoreGlossary 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. Fabricate – It means to work a material into a finished state by machining, forming, or joining. …
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 …
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