Sentence examples for soft steel from inspiring English sources
noun
Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.
They may be of hard steel, soft steel, or glass.
The ordinary file, in terms of its material and cut, is primarily used on cast iron and soft steel.
Low-cost scissors are made from relatively soft steel wire that is pressed cold and is not hardened.
It consists of a thin blade of soft steel, the scraper, or doctor blade, which moves slowly to and fro lengthwise.
Most pistol bullets are made of a lead-antimony alloy encased in a soft brass or copper-plated soft steel jacket.
To reduce wear the clapper in the bass bell, which weighs more than 1,000 pounds, is now made of soft steel.
The samples were subjected to dry sliding wear tests against hard bearing steel balls (SAE 52100 steel) and softer mild steel pins (AISI 1018 steel) at different sliding speeds and contact loads.
Everyone admires his long, soft, steel-colored leather coat.
For example, one kind of highly resilient steel, consisting of hard steel quasicrystals embedded within softer steel, is now used in razor blades and thin needles for eye surgery.
(Some of the world's softest steels, with Rockwell ratings down in the teens, are found in our buildings and bridges, where elasticity is paramount; items such as train tracks and car axles fall somewhere in the middle, with Rockwells in the thirties and forties. At the top of the scale are tool steels, such as drill bits and ball bearings, and knives).
With this level of thickness, it is possible to create interesting tribological systems with high mechanical load carrying capacity even on softer steels, which are used in general engineering.
