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Forging vs Annealing - What's the difference?

forging | annealing |

As verbs the difference between forging and annealing

is that forging is while annealing is .

As nouns the difference between forging and annealing

is that forging is a component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering) while annealing is the act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

forging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
  • * 1896 , United States, Annual report of the Secretary of War

    • annealing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
    • Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.

    Derived terms

    * simulated annealing

    References

    * Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times of jobs—a case study". Production Planning & Control , 1997, 8(5), 476.

    Verb

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