STEEL TERM GLOSSARY
TAKING THE CONFUSION OUT OF STEEL TERMS
- Aging
- Alloy
- Annealing Stain
- ASTM
- Backer Coat
- Band
- Base Steel Thickness
- Bend Radius
- Bend Test
- Blank
- Breaks (Cross Breaks)
- Buckles
- Camber
- Carbon
- Center Buckle
- Chemical Treatment
- Coating Thickness
- Coating Weight
- Coil Breaks
- Coil ID
- Coil OD
- Cold Rolled Steel
- Columbium
- Commercial Quality (CQ)
- Commercial Steel (CS)
- Copper
- Cut Edge
- Deep Drawing Steel (DDS)
- Drawing
- Drawing Steel (DS)
- Ductility
- Elasticity
- Electro galvanized
- Elongation
- Extra Smooth (XS)
- Finishes
- Flaking
- Flatness
- Floppers
- Fluting
- Forming Steel (FS)
- Fracture
- Friction Digs
- Friction Scratches
- Full Hard (FH)
- Galfan
- Galling
- Galvalume
- Galvanized
- Galvannealed
- Gauge
- Ghost Lines
- Glossmeter
- Gouge
- Half Hard
- Hardness
- Healed Over Scratch
- Heat
- Heat Ridge
- Heavy Coating
- High Carbon
- High Strength
- High Strength Low Alloy
- High Strength Steel
- Hole
- Hot Dip Steel
- I.S.M.
- Impact Testing
- Inclusions
- Intermediate Temper
- Interstitial Free (IF)
- Iron
- Killed Steel
- Kink
- Lamination
- Lap Weld
- Lead (Pb)
- Leveling
- LFQ
- Light Matte Finish
- Line Stop
- Lock Forming Quality (LFQ)
- Lockseam Test
- Long Terne Sheet
- Loose Wrap
- Low Carbon
- LT
- Lubricity
- Luders Lines
- Manganese (Mn)
- Mark, Arbor
- Mark, Bite
- Mark, Chatter
- Mark, Inclusion
- Mark, Knife
- Mark, Roll
- Mark, Roll Bruise
- Mark, Roll Skid
- Mark, Rub
- Mark, Whip
- Martensite
- Matte Finish
- Mechanical Properties
- Micrometer
- Mild Steel
- Mill Edge
- Minimum Spangle
- Mischmetal
- Mixed Coil
- Molybdenum (Mo)
- Motor Lamination
- Necking
- Niobium (Nb)
- Nitrogen (N)
- Off Gauge
- Oil Can
- Oiled
- Oiling
- Olsen Test
- Orange Peel Strain
- Oscillation
- Out-Of-Square
- Overpickled
- Overwidth
- Oxidation
- Passivation Treatment
- Peeling
- Phosphatized
- Phosphorous (P)
- Physical Properties
- Physical Quality (PQ)
- Pick Off
- Pickle Patch
- Pickle Stain or Burn Surface
- Pickup, Roll
- Pinchers
- Pinholes
- Pipe Lamination
- Piping
- Pitting (Coated)
- Pitting (Rust)
- Plating Quality
- Porcelain Enameling Sheets
- Pounds per Inch of Width (PIW)
- Powdering
- Pre Lube
- Preprinted Sheet Steel
- Profilometer
- PSI
- Pup Coil
- Quality
- Quarter Hard
- Ragged Edges
- Reduction
- Reel Breaks
- Regular Matte
- Resquaring
- Ridge
- Rimmed Steel (Old Steel Making)
- Rockwell
- Rockwell Hardness Conversion
- Rockwell Hardness Number
- Roll Grind
- Rolled-In Dirt
- Rolled-In Metal
- Rolled-In Scale
- Rollforming
- Roping
- Rust
- Salt Spray Test
- Scale
- Scale, Mill
- Scotch Brite
- Scratch
- Seam
- Secondary Steel
- Segregation
- Semi Killed Steel (Old Steel Making)
- Sheet
- Sidewall
- Silicon (Si)
- Skin Lamination
- Skip
- Slab
- Slit Edge
- Slitting
- Sliver
- Smudge
- Snaking
- Spangle
- Special Killed Steel (Drawing Quality - DDS)
- Special Killed Steel (Old Steel Making)
- Spelter
- Spooled Coils
- Stain, Oil
- Stainless Steel
- Stamping
- Starvation
- Sticker Breaks
- Strain
- Streak, Coating
- Streak, Dirt
- Streak, Grinding
- Streak, Leveler
- Streak, Roll
- Stress
- Stretcher Leveled
- Stretcher Leveling
- Stretcher Strains
- Striation
- Strip Steel
- Structural Quality
- Structural Steel
- Substrate
- Sulfur (S)
- Suppressed Spangle
- Surface Tear
- T Bend
- T.M.W.
- Tandem Mill
- Telescoping
- Temper
- Temper Passing (Skin Rolling)
- Temper, Leveling
- Tensile
- Tension Leveling
- Theoretical Weight
- Tin Plate
- Titanium (Ti)
- Tolerance
- Ton
- Transit Rust
- Transition Coil
- Transverse
- Traverse Winding
- Triple Spot Test
- Ultimate Tensile Strength
- Vacuum Degassing
- Vanadium (V)
- Vitrenamel Sheet
- Vitreous Enameling Iron
- Void
- Water Stain
- Wave
- Weld
- Weld (Coil)
- Weldability
- White Rust
- Work Hardening
- Wrap-Loose
- Wrinkling
- Yield
- Yield Point
- Yield Point Elongation (YPE)
- Yield Strength
- Zinc (Zn)
- Zinc Stringers
- Zincrometal