Impact Test - A test used to determine the impact energy measured in foot pounds, to fracture a material by means of an Izod or Charpy test. Inclusion Shape Control - The use of rare earth metals or calcium alloys to control the morphology of inclusions, in order to provide improved mechanical pr...

Quality - A term used to denote the degree of perfection of the steel sheet. Often, for sheet products, relative quality refers to the degree of perfection of the surface, i.e., the lack of scratches, absence of slivers, etc. Quality can also refer to other attributes such as internal soundness, dim...

Alloy - The mixture of any element with a pure metal. However, there are several elements regularly occurring in plain carbon steel as manufactured, such as carbon, manganese, silicon, phosphorous, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Plain carbon steel is therefore an alloy of iron and carbon and...

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Gloss - The property of a surface related to its ability to reflect light. The most common type of gloss of interest to appearance attributes is specular gloss. The parameters which must be specified for the determination of this property are the angles of incidence of the light source, the angle of...