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Steel Making

The steel making process has evolved over thousands of years. Early iron workers in Egypt around 3000 BC produced wrought iron alloys through smelting iron ore. By 1000 BC, Greeks had advanced the technique to include heat treatment to harden iron weapons. Modern steel is an alloy of iron with varying amounts of carbon, along other elements, and there are different production methods for different steel products like wire, plate, strip, and sheet. The properties of steel, such as strength and toughness, can be controlled through the aging process by manipulating factors like temperature, heating and cooling rates.

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Steel Making

The steel making process has evolved over thousands of years. Early iron workers in Egypt around 3000 BC produced wrought iron alloys through smelting iron ore. By 1000 BC, Greeks had advanced the technique to include heat treatment to harden iron weapons. Modern steel is an alloy of iron with varying amounts of carbon, along other elements, and there are different production methods for different steel products like wire, plate, strip, and sheet. The properties of steel, such as strength and toughness, can be controlled through the aging process by manipulating factors like temperature, heating and cooling rates.

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Steel Making Process

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• THE EXACT DATE AT WHICH PEOPLE DISCOVERED THE TECHNIQUE OF
SMELTING IRON ORE TO PRODUCE USABLE METAL IS NOT KNOWN.

• THE EARLIEST IRON IMPLEMENTS DISCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN


EGYPT DATE FROM ABOUT 3000 BC, THE COMPARATIVELY ADVANCED
TECHNIQUE OF HARDENING IRON WEAPONS BY HEAT TREATMENT WAS
KNOWN TO THE GREEKS ABOUT 1000 BC.

• THE ALLOYS PRODUCED BY EARLY IRON WORKERS, AND, INDEED, ALL THE
IRON ALLOYS MADE UNTIL ABOUT THE 14TH CENTURY AD, WOULD BE
CLASSIFIED TODAY AS WROUGHT IRON.

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Wire is usually available up to 0.5 inch (1.27 cms) in
diameter or size.

Plate is more than 0.1875 inch thick and over 10


inches wide (0.47 cms) to (25.4 cms)

Strip is less than 0.185 inch (.47 cms) thick and less
than 24 inches (61 cms) wide.

Sheet is less than 0.1875 (.47 cms) thick and more


than 24 (61 cms) wide.
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Lower aging temperatures produce Though the heating rate to reach the A post-aging quenching (rapid
high strength with low fracture aging temperature (900 to 1000 cooling) treatment can increase the
toughness, while higher- degrees Fahrenheit or 482 to 537 toughness without a significant loss
temperature aging produces a lower degrees Celsius) does not effect the in strength.
strength, tougher material. properties, the cooling rate does.
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