Abstract: [Problem] To prepare an amorphous alloy as an authentic industrial-use material with a wide range of applications by solving various problems such as delayed fracture and ductility. [Solution] The alloy includes 63 at % or more of Ni and consists only of, as a semimetal for amorphization, other than P. The semimetal may include, for example, 10 to 25 at % of B and one or more of Cr, Mo, and Nb as remaining main elements.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an amorphous coating film by jetting flame containing particles of a flame spray material from a flame spray gun toward a base material, causing the particles to be melted by the flame, and cooling both the particles and the flame with the means of a cooling gas before they reach the base material. The apparatus includes a tubular member provided among the path along which the flame is jetted that it surrounds the flame passing through a melting zone in which the particles are melted. The tubular member has a flow channel for the cooling gas, formed along and integrally to the tubular member.

Abstract: Provided are a cold-rolled steel sheet which undergoes a small load at the time of cold-rolling, has excellent press formability and high strength, and a method of manufacturing the cold-rolled steel sheet. A hot-rolled steel sheet having the composition comprising by mass %, 0.10 to 0.30 C, 0.2 or more Mn, 0.01 or more Ni, 0.5 to 2.5 Mn+Ni, 1.2 to 9.0 Cr, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance, and has a tensile strength of 1000 MPa or less is subjected to pickling and, is subjected to cold rolling at a total rolling reduction of 60% or more thus forming a cold-rolled steel sheet. A final continuous annealing treatment is performed at a soaking temperature of 750° C. or above and at a cooling rate of 3° C./s to 100° C./s so that the cold-rolled steel sheet which has a tensile strength of 1280 MPa or more, breaking elongation of 3% or more, and a thickness of 0.05 to 0.60 mm is manufactured.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for forming, by spraying, a commonly known amorphous coating film, which is not limited to a metallic glass or the like. According to this invention, a flame containing metal particles is ejected toward a base material from a nozzle, such that the material particles are melted with the flame. Thereafter, the melted material particles and flame are cooled before they reach the base material. For this cooling process, a gas is externally ejected toward the flame, such that the gas can gradually approach the central line of the flame. Preferably, the particle size of the material particles in the flame is within a range of 10 to 100 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new high-strength and Si—Cr containing hot rolled steel plate provided with higher strength as well as excellent workability and a method for manufacturing the steel plate. The high-strength steel plate can be obtained by controlling the particle size of prior austenite to be 10 ?m or less, and properly selecting the coiling temperature. The steel plate obtained includes a retained austenite phase in a volume fraction of 5% to 20%; a martensite phase in a volume fraction equal to or less than 10%; and a bainite phase in the remaining volume fraction. The particle size of the retained austenite particle is 1 ?m or less and the retained austenite particles are dispersed uniformly.

Abstract: The hot rolling apparatus of the present invention has a mill arranged on the preceding stage, mills of a plurality of stands arranged on the later stage which are different-diameter roll mills including a pair of different-diameter work rolls having an equivalent roll diameter of less than 600 mm or minimum-diameter roll mills including a pair of work rolls having a diameter of less than 600 mm, and a cooling unit for cooling steel to be rolled which is arranged on each exit side of the mills of at least two stands on the later stage. The hot rolling apparatus can smoothly manufacture hot rolled plates of fine-particle steel.

Abstract: A sheet rolling method uses a rolling mill (10) for rolling a sheet (x). The rolling mill (10) includes upper and lower backup rolls (13, 14), and a pair of work rolls (11, 12) respectively having different diameters and disposed between the upper and the lower backup roll (13, 14). A small-diameter work roll (11) of the pair of work rolls is disposed so that a rotational axis thereof is positioned on a mill center or a downstream side with respect to the mill center in a rolling direction, and the large-diameter work roll (12) is disposed so that a rotational axis thereof is positioned on a downstream side with respect to the rotational axis of the small-diameter work roll (11) in the rolling direction. Thus, mechanical load on the work rolls (11, 12) can be reduced even when a high rolling force is necessary for rolling a wide sheet.