Almost everyone is familiar with the fact that heat plays an important part in steels, be it carbon steel, alloy steel, tool & die steel or stainless steel. Heat treatment is the controlled treatment of steel to the heating and…
When it comes to the quality of your steel items, including alloy steel, you want the process that is going to result in the highest-quality product in the end. A high-quality product starts with high-quality steel, which are made from…
Any type of metal that you can think of will have impurities after the initial melting process. With the vacuum-degassing process, the atmospheric pressure above the liquid steel is reduced. More specifically, this pressure is reduced to less than 1…
Producing and manufacturing steel is accomplished in several different ways, and many people get confused by the terms hot rolling and hot forging. However, they are certainly not the same thing. In producing steel, you can use several processes; however,…
Every type of metal, including alloy steel, is composed of tiny parts called grains. These grains combine together and make the respective metal. We can quantify the grain size by different testing methods. The boundary of each grain is called…
Do you know the Difference Between Macro-Alloy and Micro-Alloy Steels? Alloy steel can be micro-alloyed or macro-alloyed steel, and the difference includes the other types of metals included in the process, as well as the amounts of those metals. Macro-…
Learning the difference between iron and steel is simple because iron is a naturally occurring element found in rocks under the earth’s surface and steel is manufactured by mixing iron with other elements. You can literally find iron all over…
Processing alloy steel and various metals requires exact processes done “by the book” so that the final result is what you are looking for. The reduction ratio simply refers to how much area compression occurs when producing a hot rolled…
Ultrasonic testing (UT) of steel is a non destructive testing process that normally uses very short ultrasonic pulse (high frequency sound energy) waves that have frequencies ( of between 0.1 and 15 MHz, even though they occasionally get up to…
When you consider the quality of the steel that you’re working with, whether alloy steel or any other type, the cleanliness of that steel is an important factor. In fact, when it comes to the cleanliness of all types of…