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A bracket is an architectural element and structural member. They can be made of wood, stone, or metal — that projects from a wall to support or carry weight

Welding is a fabrication or sculpturalprocess that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done bymelting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material (the weld pool) that cools to become a strong joint, with...

Anodizing, or anodising in British English, is an electrolyticpassivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts. The process is called "anodizing" because the part to be treated forms the anode electrode of an electrical circuit. Anodizing...

Metal fabrication is a value added process that involves the construction of machines and structures from various raw materials. A fab shop will bid on a job, usually based on the engineering drawings, and if awarded the contract will build the product.

Tube bending is the umbrella term for metal forming processes used to permanently form pipes or tubing. One has to differentiate between form-bound and freeform-bending procedures, as well as between heat supported and cold forming procedures.

Punching is a metal forming process that uses a punch press to force a tool, called a punch, through the workpiece to create a hole via shearing. The punch often passes through the work into a die. A scrap slug from the hole is deposited into the die in the process. Depending on the material being...

Heat treating is a group of industrial and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass. Heat treatment...

Honingis anabrasive machiningprocess that produces aprecision surfaceon ametalworkpiece by scrubbing anabrasivestone against it along a controlled path. Honing is primarily used to improve the geometric form of a surface, but may also improve thesurface texture. Typical applications are the...

Plasma cutting is a process that is used to cut steel and other metals of different thicknesses (or sometimes other materials) using a plasma torch. In this process, an inert gas (in some units, compressed air) is blown at high speed out of a nozzle; at the same time an electrical arc is formed...

Centerless grinding is a method of material removal through grinding, similar to centered grinding except for the absence of the spindle. It has high throughput, i.e., a large number of parts can be manufactured in a short time.