| Beading | (english) Raising a ridge on sheet metal |
| Bearing Load | (english) A compressive load supported by a member, usually a tube or collar, along a line where contact is made with a pin, rivet, axle, or shaft. |
| Bed-In | (english) Method whereby drag may be rammed in the pit or flask without necessity of rolling over. Process used in production of heavy castings. |
| Bedding | (english) Sinking a pattern down into the sand to the desired position and ramming the sand around it. |
| Bench Work | (english) Work done primarily at a bench with hand tools. Occasionlly suplemented by small power-driven tools. |
| Bend Radius | (english) The inside radius of a bent section, |
| Bend Test | (english) Various tests which is used to ascertain the toughness and ductility of a metal product, in which the material is bent around its axis and/ or around an outside radius. A complete test might specify such a bend to be both with and against the direction of grain. For testing, samples should be edge filed to remove burrs and any edgewise cracks resulting from slitting or shearing. If a vice is to be employed, then you must line the jaws with some soft metal, to permit a flow of the metal in the piece being tested. |
| Bending Strength | (english) Upper limit of normal stress of a beam at which fracture or excessive plastic deformation occurs. |
| BETA RATIO (#) | (english) The amount, expressed as a ratio, of particles in a fluid stream upstream of a filter, after the fluid posses through a filter, divided by the amount of particles downstream, for a particular size particle. |
| Big Winch | (english) The tool used to spot (or position) the rail cars for unloading. It is located on the north end of the unloading area. |