Month: June 2025

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘V’

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘V’ Vacancy – It is a structural imperfection in which an individual atom site is temporarily unoccupied. Vacancies – It refers to several lattice sites which are unoccupied. The number of vacancies increases exponentially with temperature. In the equilibrium state, e.g., …

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Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘U’

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘U’ U-bend die – It is a die, normally used in press-brake forming, which is machined horizontally with a square or rectangular cross-sectional opening that provides two edges over which metal is drawn into a channel shape. U-bend stress corrosion test …

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