Self-Assessment Questions

1. What is the value of metal materials in construction? Give the definition of the ferrous and nonferrous metals.

2. Point out the classification of cast irons and tell about the peculiarities of their types.

3. Point out the classification of steels and tell about the peculiarities of their types.

4. Tell the peculiarities of cast iron and steel marking; give the examples of cast irons and steels grades.

5. Describe the basic alloys from the nonferrous metals which are used in construction.

6. Give the description of steel products used in construction.

7. Specify the basic classes of reinforcing steel and types of pipes, applied in construction, their peculiarities.

8. Describe the technological process of cast iron production in the blast furnace.

9. What are the peculiarities of technological process of steel production by the open-hearth, converter and other processes?

10. What basic phases form during the crystallization in the system of iron-carbon, their influence on properties of alloys?

11. Give a concept about the phase diagrams and their value in the metallurgy.

12. Which basic properties are taken into account at selecting steel for building structures? How does chemical composition of steels influence on their properties?

13. Describe the basic methods of heat treatment and its influence on properties of metals.

14. Describe the basic methods of plastic working of metals.

15. What are the peculiarities of the chemical and electrochemical corrosion of metals?

16. What are the methods of anti-corrosive protection of metals?

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