Final Flashcards
(290 cards)
A metals ability to change shape without breaking is called?
Malleability / Ductility
The ability of a metal to return to its original shape after being deformed is called?
Elasticity
Some alloys have better magnetic properties than pure metals, one example is?
Alnico
A solid and a liquid can exist together at the melting point. Adding heat melts…
More of the solid, but does not change the temperature
Alloys that contain iron as the base metal including all common steels and special steels are?
Ferrous alloys
The speed and ease with which a metal can be cut on a machine tool is called?
Machinability
Tensile yield strength is?
The maximum tensile stress a sample of the metal can apply to the testing machine before it begins to deform permanently
Tensile strength formula
At high temperatures, an extremely slow, continuous distortion of certain metals produces another type of failure called?
Creep
What is density
Is the mass of a material per unit of volume
Specific gravity is the ratio between?
The density of a given material and the density of water
Permanent-mold casting uses what kind of cores?
Metal and sand cores
What is centrifugal casting
The process in which centrifugal force makes the metal flow away from the center and against the sides of the mold
What is the most rapid of all castings?
Die casting, it is used in casting metals having no iron in them, non ferrous metals
What is the most common method of cold forging?
Upsetting
What is pulled through a tapered die to form the wire?
A rod
The main difference between cast iron and steel is the?
Carbon content, steels have less than 2% and cast iron has 2% to 4%
An alloy with a high carbon content has a relatively low melting point, which makes it?
Easier to cast than steel
Malleabilized iron is softer and less brittle than white cast iron but?
Has better resistance to wear than gray iron
High-alloy cast iron is used in making parts that must?
Be hard and tough, but not brittle
What are the different steel making processes?
Open-hearth process
Basic oxygen process
Electric furnace process
When making steel, the most important element to be added to iron is?
Carbon
In both AISI and SAE coding systems each code number specifies?
The chemical composition of one kind of steel
The amount of sparking, the length, and color of the sparks and the appearance of any bursts within the sparks will help you identify?
The metal