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HARDENABILITY [7 records]

Record 1 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steel
  • Surface Treatment of Metals
OBS

... in a case hardened steel the hardenability of both case and core must be considered.

OBS

case-hardened steel: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acier
  • Traitements de surface des métaux
DEF

Acier ayant subi une cémentation.

OBS

cémentation : Traitement thermochimique auquel est soumis un produit ferreux porté à l'état austénitique pour obtenir un enrichissement en carbone, élément qui se trouve alors en solution solide dans l'austénite.

OBS

acier cémenté : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Geochemistry
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
DEF

A high-melting trivalent metalloid element that is known both in an extremely hard shiny black crystalline form and in the form of a greenish yellow or brown amorphous powder, that occurs in nature only in combination(as in borax and boric acid and as a trace element in plants and animals),... that is used chiefly in metallurgy(as for increasing the hardenability of steel) and in nucleonics because of its high absorption of neutrons-symbol B.

DEF

The p-type dopant commonly used for the isolation and base diffusion in standard dipolar integrated circuit processing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Géochimie
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
DEF

Métalloïde se combinant facilement avec S, C, Al et réduisant les oxydes métalliques.

CONT

Le bore élémentaire est principalement employé dans l'industrie métallurgique comme désoxydant et dégazifiant [...]. Il s'utilise de plus en plus dans les réacteurs nucléaires et en technique des hautes températures : alliages bore-aluminium, bore dans les matières plastiques comme absorbeur de neutrons [...]

OBS

[Le bore] entre dans la composition de quelques silicates (tourmaline, axinite, etc.) des pegmatites, des filons acides et des dépôts fumerolliens.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
  • Geoquímica
  • Semiconductores (Electrónica)
DEF

Elemento químico no metálico, n.° atómico 5, de color pardo obscuro, que existe nativo y en el ácido bórico y el bórax, y puede obtenerse artificialmente en cristales de dureza igual a la del diamante.

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Record 3 2008-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steel
  • Land Equipment (Military)
CONT

High hardness armour is a low alloy quenched and tempered steel with very high hardenability. The plate is manufactured to very high levels of through hardness, typically greater than 500 Brinell. High hardness armour defeats incident projectiles by shattering or deforming the projectile to the extent that the force on the armour from the projectile impact is sufficiently distributed to be no greater than the strength of the high hardness armour plate.

Key term(s)
  • high-hardness armour
  • high-hardness armor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acier
  • Matériel terrestre (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steel
OBS

The addition of boron in the range 0. 0005-0. 005% to certain steels increases the hardenability. A range of boron steels is now listed in the current BS 970 and are widely used for the production of cold headed fastenings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acier

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Acero
DEF

Aleación ferrosa empleada como agente endurecedor en aceros especiales. Se utiliza en el control de la velocidad de trabajo en las pilas de uranio-grafito para la obtención de plutonio.

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Record 5 2003-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Quenching
DEF

A hardenability test in which a steel bar is heated to the desired austenitizing temperature and quench-hardened at one end and then measured for hardness along its length, beginning at the quenched end.

CONT

end-quench hardenability test. A laboratory procedure for determining the hardenability of a steel or other ferrous alloy; widely referred to as the Jominy test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Trempe (Métal)
DEF

Méthode d'essai de trempabilité des aciers, consistant en une trempe à l'eau, avec gradient de refroidissement, d'une éprouvette cylindrique, dont on prend alors la dureté le long d'une génératrice.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steel
CONT

Alloy Tool Steels. The main functions of the alloying elements in tool steels are increasing hardenability, forming hard, wear-resisting alloy carbides, and increasing resistance to softening when tempered. These attributes are usually attained by high carbon and alloy content.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acier
DEF

Acier qui, grâce aux éléments alliés et à la diminution de la vitesse critique de trempe, forme des carbures métalliques plus durs que le carbure de fer et résistant mieux à l'échauffement.

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metallurgy - General
  • Metal Quenching
DEF

The fundamental characteristic of a steel which determines the ease of preventing the transformation of austenite to anything else but martensite during the quench.

CONT

The standard test for hardenability is the Jominy test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Métallurgie générale
  • Trempe (Métal)
DEF

Aptitude d'un acier à subir la transformation martensitique ou bainitique. Un acier est dit d'autant plus trempant que les lois de refroidissement critique pour la transformation bainitique ou martensitique correspondent à des conditions de refroidissement moins sévères. La trempabilité peut être caractérisée par la profondeur de trempe.

CONT

La capacité de trempe ou trempabilité d'un acier exprime la possibilité d'obtenir par trempe une structure martensinique.

Spanish

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