| Beam and Sling | (english) Tackle used in conjunction with a crane for turning over the cope or drag of a mold prior to assembly. |
| 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. |
| Belt Wrapper | (english) Line equipment used in the Tin Mill for starting coils on prime or reject reels. The belt wrapper ensures a proper start. |
| Bench Work | (english) Work done primarily at a bench with hand tools. Occasionlly suplemented by small power-driven tools. |
| Bench-Blower | (english) A small core-blowing machine, utilizing a removable sand magazine and blow heat. |
| 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 Angle | (english) A 'V-shaped' piece of angle iron attached to the rear of the coil car in the Strip Steel, which is used to help the operator put bends into the front end of a coil. |
| Bending Strength | (english) Upper limit of normal stress of a beam at which fracture or excessive plastic deformation occurs. |