INTRODUCTION TO STEEL

Steel is a very familiar word these days and

needs no identification, as it is commonly
used, just as iron. As the decades or centuries
have passed it has created its own identity. In
this rapidly increasing world of technology
and science the word steel sounds an
important meaning. Steel in its basic form of
iron has been used since ages to make tools
and utensils. In the present age it is used in
everything from needles to airplanes and
from common household to large industries.
It is rightly called “there is a little bit of steel
in everybody’s life.”
Steel basically is an alloy of iron with varying
percentages of carbon, sulphur, phosphorus
and manganese etc. for its various
applications. These elements give steel
specific properties like hardness, resistance to
rust and corrosion, high tensile strength,
flexibility, ability to get moulded into different
shapes these properties make this alloy
important for diverse technical fields. Steel is
used in utensils industry, pipes industry,
construction industry, ship building industry,
aviation industry, and many others, the list is
endless.
New researchers are being carried out at
various research centres to take maximum
benefit of steel with the ever-increasing
population the steel industry is growing fast.