| Burr Mashers | (english) Devices used to remove build up on edge of strip after the slitting process. |
| Butcher Saw Steel | (english) A hardened, tempered, and polished high carbon spring steel strip material (carbon content is generally higher than that of a material used for wood band saw applications) with a Rockwell value of roughly C47/49. |
| Axial force: | (english) A system of internal forces whose resultant is a force acting along the longitudinal axis of a structural member or assembly. |
| Brittle: | (english) A brittle structure or material exhibits low ductility, meaning that it exhibits very little inelastic deformation before complete failure. |
| Connection: | (english) Connection is similar to the concept of support, except that connection refers to a relationship between members in a structural model. A connection restrains degrees of freedom of one member with respect to another. For each restrained degree of freedom, there is a corresponding force transferred from one member to the other; forces associated with unrestrained degrees of freedom are zero. See fixed connection and pin connection. |
| Distributed load: | (english) An external force which acts over a region of length, surface, or area: essentially any external force which is not a concentrated force. |
| Ductility: | (english) Ductility generally refers to the amount of inelastic deformation which a material or structure experiences before complete failure. Quantitatively, ductility can be defined as the ratio of the total displacement or strain at failure, divided by the displacement or strain at the elastic limit. |
| Elastic: | (english) A material or structure is said to behave elastically if it returns to its original geometry upon unloading. |
| Elastic limit: | (english) The point beyond which the deformations of a structure or material are no longer purely elastic. |
| Fixed connection: | (english) In two dimensions, a fixed connection between two members restrains all three degrees of freedom of the connected member with respect to one another. A fixed connection is sometimes called a rigid connection or moment-resisting connection. |