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formability
noun
The quality or degree of being formable.
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Small additions of titanium (less than 1 percent) are added to other metals such as nickel, aluminum, and iron in order to improve formability and mechanical properties.
One of the newest 6XXX alloys, 6013, has applications in aircraft construction because of its attractive combination of density, strength, formability, and corrosion resistance.
Measuring the pulling force at 0.20 percent elongation and dividing it by the test bar's cross section are a means of calculating the yield strength, a good indicator of cold formability.
For example, when the highest formability is desired, the products are softened by exposing them to an elevated temperature and cooling them slowly.
The alpha-beta alloys are widely used because of their good combinations of strength, toughness, and formability.
Galfan is high-purity zinc containing 5 percent aluminum and 0.1 percent misch metal; steel coated with this alloy has high corrosion resistance and better formability than conventionally coated steel.
Also, alloys have been developed that combine good formability and corrosion resistance with the ability to achieve maximum strength without heat treating; these alloys develop their strength during the forming operation.
Aluminum-manganese alloys are the oldest yet most widely used because of their combination of strength, formability, and corrosion resistance.
The cross or helical rolling action of roll piercing demands excellent hot formability of the prerolled round.
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