Abstract: Techniques are disclosed related to wires that may be used within a medical device. According to one example, a wire may include a core formed of a material having a resistivity of less than 25 micro-ohm-cm and a layer of a biocompatible beta titanium alloy surrounding the core. As one example, the beta titanium alloy has an elastic modulus ranging from 30 GigaPascals (GPa) to 90 GPa and comprises at least two elements from a group consisting of titanium, molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, zirconium, chromium, iron and tin. In one embodiment, the core may be formed of silver, tantalum, a tantalum alloy, niobium, a niobium alloy, platinum, a platinum alloy, palladium, or a palladium alloy. In some examples, one or more wires may be incorporated into a coil or a cable and one or more such coils or cables may be carried by a medical device such as a medical electrical lead.

Abstract: A post-heat-treatable substrate with a thermochromic film. The post-heat-treatable substrate includes a base substrate, a thermochromic film coating the base substrate, an auxiliary film formed on at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the thermochromic film, and a sacrificial film formed between the thermochromic film and the auxiliary film. The sacrificial film is made of metal. Accordingly, the thermochromic material is prevented from agglomerating during post-heat-treatment of the substrate. The auxiliary film prevents oxygen and nitrogen from diffusing into the thermochromic film, so that high-temperature heat treatment, such as a process for tempering the substrate, a process for heat-strengthening the substrate and a process for forming the substrate to become curved, can be conducted on the substrate.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a porous or partially porous three-dimensional metal article for use as a tissue ingrowth surface on a prosthesis. The porous article is formed using direct laser remelting in a cross section of a layer of metallic powder on a build platform without fusing thereto. The power, speed, spot size and beam overlap of the scanning laser is coordinated so that a predetermined porosity of the metallic powder can be achieved. Laser factors also vary depending from the thickness of the powder layer, type of metallic powder and size and size distribution of the powder particles. Successive depositing and remelting of individual layers are repeated until the article is fully formed by a layer-by-layer fashion. In an additional embodiment, a first layer of metallic powder may be deposited on a solid base or core and fused thereto.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a porous or partially porous three-dimensional metal article for use as a tissue ingrowth surface on a prosthesis. The porous article is formed using direct laser remelting in a cross section of a layer of metallic powder on a build platform without fusing thereto. The power, speed, spot size and beam overlap of the scanning laser is coordinated so that a predetermined porosity of the metallic powder can be achieved. Laser factors also vary depending from the thickness of the powder layer, type of metallic powder and size and size distribution of the powder particles. Successive depositing and remelting of individual layers are repeated until the article is fully formed by a layer-by-layer fashion. In an additional embodiment, a first layer of metallic powder may be deposited on a solid base or core and fused thereto.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow drilling steel rod including a stem portion and a thread portion positioned at an end portion in an axial direction with respect to the stem portion, the hollow drilling steel rod being constituted of a steel having a specific composition described in the present specification, in which the thread portion includes a thread having been subjected to a high frequency quenching, and the thread portion and the stem portion separate from each other have been joined by a friction welding.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a metal structural component, in particular a vehicle structural component, in which a steel part is hot formed and is hardened at least over sections by contact with a tool surface, in which the steel part is during the hardening cooled in at least two partial regions at different cooling rates, so that the partial regions after the hardening differ in their microstructure, wherein the cooling rates differing from one another are produced by sections of the tool surface corresponding to the partial regions of the steel part, which differ from one another as regards their thermal conductivities. The invention also relates to a further method for producing a metal structural component, as well as a tool and a batch furnace.

Abstract: A method for modifying crystalline structure of a copper element with a planar surface, including: a) producing a copper standard having large grains, wherein the standard includes a planar surface, b) reducing roughness of the planar surfaces to a roughness of less than 1 nm, c) cleaning the planar surfaces, d) bringing the two planar surfaces into contact, and e) annealing.

Abstract: With regard to a surface hardening method wherein a surface of an engine member is coated with an alloy layer having high abrasive resistance so as to improve the life of the member and a production method of a piston or the like wherein abrasive resistance of the member is improved by the hardening method, a surface of a metal base material is coated uniformly with a mixture including metal powder, a binder and a solvent so as to form a coat, and the coat is dried and applied thereon with a laser or electron beam so as to be sintered and dispersed for forming an alloy layer on a surface of the metal base material and for bonding the alloy layer to the metal base material.

Abstract: An article of manufacture selected from a titanium alloy fastener and a titanium alloy fastener stock including an alpha/beta titanium alloy comprising, in percent by weight: 3.9 to 5.4 aluminum; 2.2 to 3.0 vanadium; 1.2 to 1.8 iron; 0.24 to 0.3 oxygen; up to 0.08 carbon; up to 0.05 nitrogen; titanium; and up to a total of 0.3 of other elements. In certain embodiments, article of manufacture has an ultimate tensile strength of at least 170 ksi (1,172 MPa) and a double shear strength of at least 103 ksi (710.2 MPa). A method of manufacturing a titanium alloy fastener and a titanium alloy fastener stock comprising the alpha/beta alloy is disclosed.

Abstract: Surfaces of magnesium-base alloy workpieces may be mechanically worked and deformed to increase their resistance to corrosion, especially corrosion occurring in the presence of water or water and salt or other corrosive media. Workpiece surfaces that are to be thus protected are engaged in squeezing, sliding, and frictional contact with a suitable burnishing or other working tool that traverses the surface to compress and deform it and to refine the metallurgical grain structure. For example, the grain size is reduced in a surface layer that may extend to a depth of up to a few millimeters. And grain orientation is altered within that depth. The tool is not employed to intentionally remove material from the surface of the workpiece. The initial dimensioning of the workpiece may take into consideration the alteration of surfaces by the mechanical working process.

Abstract: The present invention resides in a method of manufacturing a bearing ring (101) for a rolling element bearing, wherein the bearing ring comprises a bearing race (102) made of a bearing grade steel and an overmoulded part (106) that is preferably made of a lightweight metal such as aluminium or a thermoplastic material such as polyamide. According to the invention, the method comprises a step of hardening at least a raceway surface (103) of the bearing race prior to a step of joining the overmoulded part (106) to the bearing race (102) in a moulding process. In a further development, the method comprises a step of temperature control, to ensure that the temperature of the raceway surface (103) is kept below a predetermined value during the moulding process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a timepiece plate. This method is characterized in that it includes the following steps: a) taking (A1, A2) the material forming the plate including at least one metallic element; b) forming (B1, B2) the plate; c) cooling (C) everything so as to obtain the timepiece plate in an at least partially amorphous state; and d) retrieving (D) the plate.

Abstract: A carbon fiber composite structure including a first plurality of carbon fiber prepreg plies; and a second plurality of sheets of shape memory alloy interleaved with the first plurality of carbon fiber prepreg plies.

Abstract: Disclosed are a polymer laminated substrate for forming an epitaxial growth film having a highly-crystal-oriented surface and a method of manufacturing the polymer laminated substrate. The method of manufacturing a polymer laminated substrate for forming an epitaxial growth film includes the steps of: activating at least one surface of a polymer sheet T1; activating at least one surface of a metal foil T2 which is made of Cu or a Cu alloy and is formed by cold rolling at a draft of 90% or more; laminating the polymer sheet and the metal foil such that an activated surface of the polymer sheet and an activated surface of the metal foil face each other in an opposed manner and applying cold rolling to the polymer sheet and the metal foil which are laminated to each other; and biaxially orienting crystals of the metal foil by heat treatment.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability containing, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.010%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.04%, Cr: 10 to 20%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.3 to 1.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 2.0%, wherein the total precipitates are, by wt %, 0.05 to 0.60%. A method of production of a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability comprising producing a cold rolling material in the production process so that the Nb-based precipitates become, by vol %, 0.15% to 0.6% and have a diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m and/or so that the recrystallized grain size becomes 1 ?m to 40 ?m and the recrystallization rate becomes 10 to 90%, then cold rolling and annealing it at 1010 to 1080° C.

Abstract: A digital manufacturing system comprises a build chamber, a build platform disposed within the build chamber, at least one extrusion line configured to heat a metal-based alloy up to a temperature between solidus and liquidus temperatures of the metal-based alloy, a deposition head disposed within the build chamber and configured to deposit the heated metal-based alloy onto the build platform in a predetermined pattern, an umbilical having a first end located outside of the build chamber and a second end connected to the deposition head, and at least one gantry assembly configured to cause relative motion between the build platform and the deposition head within the build chamber, where the at least one gantry assembly comprises a motor disposed outside of the build chamber.

Abstract: In a method of making a guide wire 1 by using a heat mold device 1, the metallic mold body 2 is made from the material, the thermal expansional coefficient of which is the same of a metallic coiled wire 91 to stabilize a shape-forming configuration 94. A plurality of the mold bodies 2 are arranged in a mold frame 6A to make the reverse side 22 of one mold body 2 tightly contact with the obverse side 21 of other mold body 2 among the neighboring mold bodies 2. A jig arm 7A sandwiches an array of metallic mold bodies 2 and the side plate 63 to serve as a securement member 7. Upon manufacturing the guide wire 9 for use in the medical field, the method of making the heat mold device 1 contributes to producing a high quality guide wire with a high productivity.

Abstract: Applicants have discovered new composite materials and have developed a variety of new ways of making reactive composite materials (RCMs) and methods of controlling the properties and characteristics of the materials that are pertinent to numerous new or improved applications. This patent application is directed to new and improved ways of making reactive composite materials using mechanical deformation and making such materials with controlled, predictable characteristics. This application is also directed toward useful applications of the resulting materials. In accordance with the invention, RCMs are fabricated by a series of mechanical deformation steps. In the first deformation step, an assembly of reactive layers and/or particles is plastically deformed to reduce its cross sectional area by one-half or more. This severe initial deformation substantially eliminates the tendency of deformed layers to delaminate and eliminates the necessity of using specially cleaned metal layers.

Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet contains, in terms of mass%, C: 0.015% or more to less than 0.040%; Si: less than 0.05%; Mn: 0.9% or more to 1.8% or less; P: less than 0.02%; S: less than 0.01%; Al: less than 0.1%; N: less than 0.006%; and Ti: 0.05% or more to less than 0.11%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein Ti/C is in a range of 2.5 or more to less than 3.5, Nb, Zr, V, Cr, Mo, B and W are not included, a microstructure includes a mixed microstructure of polygonal ferrite and quasi-polygonal ferrite in a proportion of greater than 96%, a maximum tensile strength is 520 MPa or more and less than 720 MPa, an aging index AI is more than 15 MPa, a product of a hole expansion ratio (A) % and a total elongation (El) % is 2350 or more, and a fatigue limit is 200 MPa or more.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of forming an electrocatalytic surface on an electrode in a simple way, in particular on a lead anode used in the electrolytic recovery of metals. The catalytic coating is formed by a spraying method which does not essentially alter the characteristics of the coating powder during spraying. Transition metal oxides are used as the coating material. After the spray coating the electrode is ready for use without further treatment. The invention also relates to an electrode onto which an electrocatalytic surface is formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing stress in a conduit brace assembly that includes the steps of forming a connection joint (125) that connects a brace bar (120, 121, 122, or 123) to a conduit (103A or 103B) and applying localized heat at the connection joint (125) to relieve stress.

Abstract: Methods of passivating a metal surface are described, the methods comprising the steps of i) exposing the metal surface to a silicon-containing passivation material; ii) evacuating the metal surface; iii) exposing the treated surface to a gas composition having a concentration of reactive gas that is greater than an intended reactive gas concentration of gas to be transported by the metal surface; iv) evacuating the metal surface to remove substantially all of the gas composition to enable maintenance of an increased shelf-life, low concentration reactive gas at an intended concentration; and v) exposing the metal surface to the reactive gas at the intended reactive gas concentration. Manufactured products, high stability fluids, and methods of making same are also described.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a water-soluble preflux containing a low-volatile solubilizing agent excellent in performance to dissolve an imidazole compound in water and capable of bringing out an excellent film-forming property of the imidazole compound and also to provide a treating method for the surface of a metal conductive part which comprises bringing the surface into contact with the above water-soluble preflux.

Abstract: A method of processing seals (20), like leaf seals, in which seals (20) an annular gap, formed between two coaxial, cylindrical surfaces, is sealed off in the axial direction by a multiplicity of individual, thin sealing elements (22; 22a, b) which, with an orientation deviating from the radial direction, extend transversely through the gap and are fixed at their end assigned to the one cylindrical surface and bear loosely with the other, free end against the other cylindrical surface.

Abstract: A method for repairing an article comprises providing an article, providing a repair material, and joining said repair material to said article. The repair material comprises, in atom percent, at least about 50% rhodium; up to about 49% of a first material, said first material comprising at least one of palladium, platinum, iridium, and combinations thereof; from about 1% to about 15% of a second material, said second material comprising at least one of tungsten, rhenium, and combinations thereof; and up to about 10% of a third material, said third material comprising at least one of ruthenium, chromium, and combinations thereof. The repair material comprises an A1-structured phase at temperatures greater than about 1000° C., in an amount of at least about 90% by volume.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a sliding bearing with a sliding surface, which is made of a copper multicomponent alloy with at least two phase constituents, in which process at least one phase constituent at the sliding surface is dissolved by means of an acid, and at least one further phase constituent is retained in a raised form. The sliding bearing preferably is made of a copper/aluminum multicomponent bronze.

Abstract: One subject of the invention is a process for the treatment of at least one thin continuous film deposited on a first side of a substrate, characterized in that said at least one thin film is raised to a temperature of at least 300° C. while maintaining a temperature not exceeding 150° C. on the opposite side of said substrate to said first side, so as to increase the degree of crystallization of said thin film while keeping it continuous and without a step of melting said thin film. Another subject of the invention is the material that can be obtained by this process.

Abstract: The method of forming hard facing on an engine valve comprising providing an engine valve, providing an austenitic iron-based alloy, the austenitic iron-based alloy including, by weight, about 0.25% to about 0.9% carbon, about 1.5% to about 3.5% boron, about 1% to about 2% silicon, at least 20% chromium, an amount of manganese effective to provide the iron-based alloy with an austenitic structure, and the balance including iron and incidental impurities, and welding the austenitic iron-based alloy to at least a portion of the engine valve.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy component including solution heat treating a forged Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy component at a temperature within the alpha+beta two-phase field for the material of the component for a predetermined period of time, and subsequently cooling the component. The component is then age heat treated using an overaging process at a predetermined overaging temperature for a predetermined time, and the component is cooled to room temperature. The overaging temperature is selected to be a higher temperature than an aging heat treatment temperature for effecting a maximum yield strength in the component.

Abstract: Quenching heat treatment is performed on a whole rocker arm bearing assembly in which shaft ends of a supporting shaft are fixed to inner peripheral edges of shaft end insertion holes of a pair of opposite sidewalls, and by the outer ring is rotatably supported on a raceway portion of an shaft intermediate portion of the supporting shaft through a plurality of rolling elements or directly, thereby manufacturing a rocker arm bearing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention includes a liquid crystal display device having an oxide film having high adhesiveness to a substrate to thereby prevent oxidation of a wiring material or the like, and includes, an electrode or a terminal electrode having high conductivity, and a manufacturing method therefor. Consequently, in the present invention, a liquid crystal display device has an electrode terminal of a TFT substrate, wherein the electrode is formed on an insulator and is comprised of a conductive layer mainly consisting of copper and an oxide covering an outer part, further the oxide is a layered structure of transparent electrodes, the layered portion having ohmic contact, and the oxide mainly consists of manganese oxide.

Abstract: The invention includes a method of producing a hard metallic material by forming a mixture containing at least 55% iron and at least one of B, C, Si and P. The mixture is formed into an alloy and cooled to form a metallic material having a hardness of greater than about 9.2 GPa. The invention includes a method of forming a wire by combining a metal strip and a powder. The metal strip and the powder are rolled to form a wire containing at least 55% iron and from two to seven additional elements including at least one of C, Si and B. The invention also includes a method of forming a hardened surface on a substrate by processing a solid mass to form a powder, applying the powder to a surface to form a layer containing metallic glass, and converting the glass to a crystalline material having a nanocrystalline grain size.

Abstract: A laminated steel sheet for a two-piece can body with a high strain level satisfying the following formulae, the polyester resin layer composing the laminated steel sheet having a center line surface roughness (Ra) of 0.2 ?m to 1.8 ?m: r1?r, 0.1?r1/R?0.25, and 1.5?h/(R?r)?4 wherein h is the height of the two-piece can body, r is the maximum radius, r1 is the minimum radius, and R is the radius of the circular laminated steel sheet before forming having the same weight as the can body.

Abstract: Article (e.g., turbine engine fan or compressor blade) comprising a titanium alloy has a first portion with alpha+beta microstructure and a second portion with martensitic or a bimodal microstructure. The modified microstructure of the second portion is provided by selectively heating, and immediately quenching, the second portion without substantially heating the first portion. An exemplary method includes providing a near net-shaped article having a first portion (e.g., an airfoil region) and a second portion (e.g., an unfinished dovetail region). Initially, the article comprises an alpha+beta microstructure throughout. Thereafter, the second portion is selectively heated, followed by immediate quenching, without substantially heating the first portion, to modify the microstructure of the second portion to a martensitic or bimodal microstructure without substantially modifying the microstructure of the first portion. Thereafter, the second portion may be processed to a final body dimension.

Abstract: An inorganic nanocomposite is prepared by obtaining a solution of a soluble hydrazine-based metal chalcogenide precursor; dispersing a nanoentity in the precursor solution; applying a solution of the precursor containing the nanoentity onto a substrate to produce a film of the precursor containing the nanoentity; and annealing the film of the precursor containing the nanoentity to produce the metal chalcogenide nanocomposite film comprising at least one metal chalcogenide and at least one molecularly-intermixed nanoentity on the substrate. The process can be used to prepare field-effect transistors and photovoltaic devices.

Abstract: A holder having a baseplate with a tang extending rearwardly therefrom, a plurality of openings for receiving fasteners and a plurality of legs extending from the baseplate, the tang being heat treated or work hardened to harden the tang and facilitate its detachment for non-friable substrate applications. Work hardening may be accomplished, for example, by heating and quenching the tang to increase both its hardness and its brittleness to a level that allows the tang to be broken off with an impact force but not when inserted into a friable substrate so that the holder retains greater functionality.

Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet excellent in strength-ductility balance and bake-hardenability as well as a method for producing the same are provided. The chemical components thereof include C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, N and Cr at content ratios of 0.005 to 0.04%, 1.5% or lower, 1.0 to 2.0%, 0.10% or lower, 0.03% or lower, 0.01 to 0.1%, less than 0.008% and 0.2 to 1.0%, respectively, with Mn (mass %)+1.29Cr (mass %) being in the range of 2.1 to 2.8, and further include iron and unavoidable impurities as the balance. The structure thereof consists of a ferrite phase and a martensite phase with a volume fraction being at least 3.0% and less than 10%, the average particle diameter of the ferrite is larger than 6 ?m and not more than 15 ?m, and 90% or more of the martensite phase exists in a ferrite grain boundary. In addition, in the production process of such a galvanized steel sheet, a steel sheet obtained in a cold rolling step is annealed at a temperature being at least the Ac1 point and not more than the Ac3 point.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a porous or partially porous three-dimensional metal article for use as a tissue ingrowth surface on a prosthesis. The porous article is formed using direct laser remelting in a cross section of a layer of metallic powder on a build platform without fusing thereto. The power, speed, spot size and beam overlap of the scanning laser is coordinated so that a predetermined porosity of the metallic powder can be achieved. Laser factors also vary depending from the thickness of the powder layer, type of metallic powder and size and size distribution of the powder particles. Successive depositing and remelting of individual layers are repeated until the article is fully formed by a layer-by-layer fashion. In an additional embodiment, a first layer of metallic powder may be deposited on a solid base or core and fused thereto.

Abstract: In a method and system for an improved annealing furnace cooling and purging, atmosphere injection jets are provided in close proximity to a bottom of a tray carrying a lamination product in a cooling section. Atmospheric extraction tubes are also provided extracting atmosphere which is delivered to a high temperature variable speed fan which then outputs at a pressure side atmosphere to tubes having the injection jets. The system may be retrofit into an existing annealing furnace already having water cooled finned tubes and a recirculation fan in the cooling section. Cooling water tubes and a recirculating fan may also be provided in a purge vestibule located after an output from the cooling section for additional cooling.

Abstract: A method of welding connection is directed towards the construction and subsequent heat treatment of industrial grade manual tools and, specifically, their tool heads to handles or handle attachment connections. The method employs the use of matching, non-heat treated, compatible material such as steel alloys, for the tool heads and steel handles or attachment sockets. These components are welded together prior to their heat treatment, resulting in a superior weld joint without the normal annealing which occurs during welding. Such tools are, as a result, extremely resistant to bending or breaking under normal usage. With regard to spades and shovels, a stronger blade-to-handle junction is created, as no annealing takes place, compared to blades and handles which are first heat treated separately then welded together.

Abstract: The invention concerns a particular method of making a protective garment or a part of a protective garment, such as a glove, an apron, a vest or the like, said garment or part of garment comprising a web of metal particles assembled together, such as a web of interleaved metal rings or a web of metal platelets assembled by metal linking rings or the like. The method according to the invention is characterized in that it consists in the following steps: firstly, starting with structurally hardened metal or metals not thermally treated, carrying out operations of metal particle cutting, shaping and possibly assembling, secondly, heat treating said obtained particles or said metal web obtained after the assembling operation, so as to increase strength and hardness characteristics of the metal particles constituting said web, and finally carrying out a final operation of making the protective garment or finalizing the garment.

Abstract: A method of processing a substrate with a conductive film formed thereover and method of forming a micromagnetic device. In one embodiment, the method of processing the substrate includes reducing a temperature of the substrate to a stress-compensating temperature, and maintaining the temperature of the substrate at the stress-compensating temperature for a period of time. The method also includes increasing the temperature of the substrate above the stress-compensating temperature.

Abstract: A component having a platinum-aluminum substrate surface region which is formed in the area of the substrate surface of the component by diffusion of platinum and aluminum into the substrate surface and which contains platinum and aluminum as well as the constituents of the substrate composition. The integrated aluminum content and/or the integrated platinum content in the substrate area is less than 18 wt %.

Abstract: The invention relates to a copper-zinc alloy, consisting of (in wt %): from 28.0 to 36.0% Zn, from 0.5 to 2.3% Si, from 1.5 to 2.5% Mn, from 0.2 to 3.0% Ni, from 0.5 to 1.5% Al, from 0.1 to 1.0% Fe, optionally also up to at most 0.1% Pb, optionally also up to at most 0.2% Sn, optionally also up, to at most 0.1% P, optionally also up to 0.08% S, remainder Cu and inevitable impurities, with mixed silicides of iron-nickel-manganese incorporated in the matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability containing, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.010%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.0%, P: 0.01 to 0.04%, Cr: 10 to 20%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.3 to 1.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 2.0%, wherein the total precipitates are, by wt %, 0.05 to 0.60%. A method of production of a ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in shapeability comprising producing a cold rolling material in the production process so that the Nb-based precipitates become, by vol %, 0.15% to 0.6% and have a diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m and/or so that the recrystallized grain size becomes 1 ?m to 40 ?m and the recrystallization rate becomes 10 to 90%, then cold rolling and annealing it at 1010 to 1080° C.

Abstract: A hafnium alloy target containing either or both of Zr and Ti in a gross amount of 100 wtppm-10 wt % in Hf, wherein the average crystal grain size is 1-100 ?m, the impurities of Fe, Cr and Ni are respectively 1 wtppm or less, and the habit plane ratio of the plane {002} and three planes {103}, {014} and {015} lying within 35° from {002} is 55% or greater, and the variation in the total sum of the intensity ratios of these four planes depending on locations is 20% or less. As a result, obtained is a hafnium alloy target having favorable deposition property and deposition speed, which generates few particles, and which is suitable for forming a high dielectric gate insulation film such as HfO or HfON film, and the manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing a part made of steel having a multiphase microstructure, said microstructure comprising ferrite and being homogeneous in each of the regions of said part, which process comprises the steps consisting in: cutting a blank from a strip of steel, the composition of which is typical of that of steels having a multiphase microstructure; said blank is heated so as to reach a soak temperature Ts above Ac1 but below Ac3 and held at this soak temperature Ts for a soak time ts adjusted so that the steel, after the blank has been heated, has an austenite content equal to or greater than 25% by area; said heated blank is transferred into a forming tool so as to hot-form said part; and said part is cooled within the tool at a cooling rate V such that the microstructure of the steel, after the part has been cooled, is a multiphase microstructure, said microstructure comprising ferrite and being homogeneous in each of the regions of said part.

Abstract: The invention relates to plastic working of metals, more specifically to rolling sheets, and is concerned with a method of manufacturing a semi-finished sheet product from a titanium alloy having a submicrocrystalline structure suitable for low-temperature superplastic deformation. The invention can be most efficiently used to manufacture semi-finished thin sheets, including foil, from a low-plastic two-phase titanium alloy. The object of the invention is to improve quality of semi-finished sheet products made from a titanium alloy adapted for further low-temperature superplastic deformation.

Abstract: A carbon steel sheet having high formability due to a microscopic and uniform carbide distribution and having a good characteristic of final heat treatment, and a manufacturing method thereof. The carbon steel sheet having excellent formability, includes, in wt %, C at 0.2-0.5%, Mn at 0.1-1.2%, Si at less than or equal to 0.4%, Cr at less than or equal to 0.5%, Al at 0.01-0.1%, S at less than or equal to 0.012%, Ti at less than or equal to 0.5×48/14×[N]% when the condition of B(atomic %)/N(atomic %)>1 is satisfied or by 0.5×48/14×[N]% to 0.03% when the condition of B and N is not satisfied, B at 0.0005-0.0080%, N at less than or equal to 0.006%, Fe, and extra inevitable elements; an average size of carbide is less than or equal to 1 ?m; and an average grain size of ferrite is less than or equal to 5 ?m.

Abstract: Welded 36% Ni—Fe alloy steel and a method of making such welded steel for use in storage tanks, pipelines, and other equipment associated with cryogenic substances is disclosed. The welded steel has a similar coefficient of thermal expansion in both the weld and base steel.