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A billet is a length of metal that has a round or square cross-section, with an area less than 36 in 2 (230 cm 2). Billets are created directly via continuous casting or extrusion or indirectly via hot rolling an ingot or bloom. [1] [2] [4] Billets are further processed via profile rolling and drawing. Final products include bar stock and wire. [3]
Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Prior to the introduction of continuous casting in the 1950s, steel was poured into stationary molds to form ingots. Since then, "continuous casting" has ...
Bar stock, also (colloquially) known as blank, slug or billet, [1] is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products. Bar stock is available in a variety of extrusion shapes and lengths. The most common shapes are round (circular cross-section), rectangular, square and hexagonal.
Billet (tack), the straps on an English saddle to which the girth is buckled; Bar stock or billet, in metalworking, a semi-finished product which is usually milled or lathed into a more finished product; Billet (wood), a piece of timber prepared to be split; Billet (heraldry), a rectangular charge (shape) on a coat of arms
A bloomery in operation. The bloom will eventually be drawn out of the bottom hole. A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom.
The term is often used interchangeably with chamfer, though there are sometimes distinctions in technical usage. billet 1. A short piece of a log, especially one used for fuel. 2. A split-out piece of a bolt of wood. blind Joinery with mating surfaces not protruding through the face or end grain of the pieces being joined.
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The term is not found in any classic author, but is a modern coinage, originating in Germany, to differentiate the feature from the opisthodomos, which in the Parthenon was an enclosed chamber. [38] Estípite In Churrigueresque Baroque architecture, an elaborate pilaster with a tapered base. Estrade The French term for a raised platform or dais.