Steel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:03:54 1 Definitions and related materials
00:06:49 2 Material properties
00:17:10 2.1 Heat treatment
00:19:02 3 Steel production
00:20:59 4 History of steelmaking
00:21:09 4.1 Ancient steel
00:22:55 4.2 Wootz steel and Damascus steel
00:26:57 4.3 Modern steelmaking
00:27:27 4.3.1 Processes starting from bar iron
00:29:23 4.3.2 Processes starting from pig iron
00:31:30 5 Steel industry
00:33:16 6 Recycling
00:34:30 7 Contemporary steel
00:34:40 7.1 Carbon steels
00:35:20 7.2 Alloy steels
00:37:31 7.3 Standards
00:38:25 8 Uses
00:39:54 8.1 Historical
00:41:10 8.2 Long steel
00:41:39 8.3 Flat carbon steel
00:42:01 8.4 Weathering steel (COR-TEN)
00:42:23 8.5 Stainless steel
00:42:53 8.6 Low-background steel



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Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements. Because of its high tensile strength and low cost, it is a major component used in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, machines, appliances, and weapons.
Iron is the base metal of steel.  Iron is able to take on two crystalline forms (allotropic forms), body centered cubic and face centered cubic, depending on its temperature.  In the body-centered cubic arrangement, there is an iron atom in the center and eight atoms at the vertices of each cubic unit cell; in the face-centered cubic, there is one atom at the center of each of the six faces of the cubic unit cell and eight atoms at its vertices.  It is the interaction of the allotropes of iron with the alloying elements, primarily carbon, that gives steel and cast iron their range of unique properties.
In pure iron, the crystal structure has relatively little resistance to the iron atoms slipping past one another, and so pure iron is quite ductile, or soft and easily formed.  In steel, small amounts of carbon, other elements, and inclusions within the iron act as hardening agents that prevent the movement of dislocations that are common in the crystal lattices of iron atoms.
The carbon in typical steel alloys may contribute up to 2.14% of its weight. Varying the amount of carbon and many other alloying elements, as well as controlling their chemical and physical makeup in the final steel (either as solute elements, or as precipitated phases), slows the movement of those dislocations that make pure iron ductile, and thus controls and enhances its qualities.  These qualities include such things as the hardness, quenching behavior, need for annealing, tempering behavior, yield strength, and tensile strength of the resulting steel. The increase in steel's strength compared to pure iron is possible only by reducing iron's ductility.
Steel was produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years, but its large-scale, industrial use began only after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century, with the production of blister steel and then crucible steel. With the invention of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, a new era of mass-produced steel began. This was followed by the Siemens-Martin process and then the Gilchrist-Thomas process that refined the quality of steel. With their introductions, mild steel replaced wrought iron.
Further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS), largely replaced earlier methods by further lowering the cost of production and increasing the quality of the final product. Today, steel is one of the most common manmade materials in the world, with more than 1.6 billion tons produced annually. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades defined by assorted standards organizations.