Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that combines low iron loss and low magnetostriction, together with an advantageous production method therefor. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises a linear strain portion extending in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein the linear strain portion has a stress distribution in which a compressive stress region and a tensile stress region alternate in a longitudinal direction of the linear strain portion. The linear strain portion is formed by vibrating the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction, while irradiating a surface of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an electron beam by repeatedly moving and detaining the electron beam in the direction intersecting the rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet.

Abstract: A method for producing water-atomized metal powder by dividing a molten metal stream, which is falling in a vertical direction, by spraying cooling water that impinges on the molten metal stream includes a step of spraying the cooling water at a spray pressure of 10 MPa or more and a spread angle in a range of 5° to 30° from each of three or more cooling water discharge ports arranged remote from the falling molten metal stream. The droplet diameter of the cooling water: 100 ?m or less, the convergence angle: 5° to 10°, and the water/molten steel ratio: 50 or more.

Abstract: An abnormality determination apparatus: performs, during normal operation of the facility, K times of clipping from time-series signals indicating an operation state of the facility; sets M types as types of the time-series signals clipped by the time-series signal clipping unit, constructs an M-dimensional vector, and registers the constructed vector as a normal vector; sets an abnormality determination flag as a first type when a maximum value of correlation between variables is less than a predetermined value, sets an abnormality determination flag as a second type when the maximum value is the predetermined value or more, and performs, when the flag is of the second type, a principal component analysis on a registered normal vector group to calculate a transform coefficient of a principal component and registers each of the calculated transform coefficients as an abnormality determination model; and determines an abnormality of the facility.

Abstract: It is provided a stainless steel sheet for fuel cell separators with low contact resistance, which can be produced very advantageously in terms of safety as well as mass production. A parameter Sa specified in ISO 25178 is set to 0.15 ?m or more and 0.50 ?m or less, and a parameter Ssk specified in ISO 25178 is set to more than 0.

Abstract: Provided is a steel plate that has high strength and has excellent cryogenic toughness uniformly in the steel plate regardless of the thickness. A steel plate comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.01% to 0.15%, Si: 0.01% to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05% to 0.60%, Ni: 6.0% to 7.5%, Cr: 0.01% to 1.00%, Mo: 0.05% to 0.50%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.0010% to 0.0080%, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein at a position of ¼×t, a decrease ratio of an amount of retained ? between before and after deep cooling treatment at ?196° C. is less than 5 vol % and the amount of retained ? after the deep cooling treatment is 0.5 vol % or more.

Abstract: Provided is a weld joint having high strength and excellent hot crack resistance and low-temperature toughness. High Ni steel plates containing 6.5 mass % to 10.0 mass % of Ni are welded to form a weld metal to obtain a weld joint. The weld metal has a chemical composition containing Mn: 13.0% to 25.0%, Cr: 3.8% or less, Ni: 1.0% to 12.0%, Mo: 0.1% to 5.0%, N: % or less, and O: 0.100% or less, and the strength of the weld metal is adjusted so that the yield strength BYS of each steel plate and the 0.2% proof stress WPS of the weld metal satisfy [WPS]?[BYS]?100 MPa??(1) and the tensile strength BTS of the steel plate and the tensile strength WTS of the weld metal satisfy [WTS]?[BTS]+100 MPa??(2).

Abstract: To alleviate stress exerted on a thread portion of a high pressure gas container including a metallic container to prevent fatigue fracture, there is provided a high pressure gas container comprising a metallic container, wherein the metallic container includes: a metallic cylinder; a female thread portion on an inner peripheral surface of the metallic cylinder at at least one end; and a lid having, on an outer peripheral surface, a male thread portion configured to screw into the female thread portion, and a maximum value of residual compressive stress at a position of 0.4 mm in a depth direction from a plurality of thread bottoms of the female thread portion and the male thread portion is 100 MPa or more, less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the metallic cylinder, and less than or equal to tensile strength of a material of the lid.

Abstract: A press forming part includes: a top portion; a side wall portion continuous from the top portion via a punch shoulder; and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion via a die shoulder, the press forming part having a curved portion curved in a recessed manner in a top view, wherein a bending radius of the die shoulder in the curved portion is increased from an end side toward a middle portion of the curve.

Abstract: Provided is a novel method for producing a laminate that serves as an electron transport layer and an optically transparent electrode layer of a perovskite solar cell having, in the following order, an optically transparent electrode layer, an electron transport layer, a perovskite crystal layer, a hole transport layer, and a current collecting layer. The method involves forming a titanium oxide layer that serves as the electron transport layer on a member that serves as the optically transparent electrode layer by utilizing said member for cathode polarization in a treatment liquid containing a Ti component.

Abstract: A hot-pressed member has a predetermined chemical composition. In the hot-pressed member, a steel sheet has a microstructure in which a prior austenite average grain diameter is 8 ?m or less, and martensite is present in a volume fraction of 95% or greater in a region within 30 ?m of a surface; a Ni diffusion region having a thickness of 0.5 ?m or greater exists in a surface layer; a standard deviation of Vickers hardness values is 35 or less; Mndif (mass %) in a sheet thickness direction ?0.20, where Mndif (mass %) is a degree of Mn segregation; and a tensile strength is 1780 MPa or greater.

Abstract: A punch and a pad sandwiching a top sheet portion, bending blades for bend-forming the vertical wall portions, and stoppers facing the bending blades are provided. The punch is supported by a first cushion component. The bending blades each have an upper die component and a lower die component disposed facing each other in the press direction with an interval equal to a set compression amount in the range of 2% or more and 6% or less of the heights of the vertical wall portions and a second cushion component interposed between the upper die component and the lower die component, maintaining the interval, and contractible in the press direction. The cushion pressure of the second cushion component is lower than the cushion pressure of the first cushion component and has such cushion pressure that the second cushion component does not contract during the bend-forming of the vertical wall portions.

Abstract: Provided is an alloyed galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The alloyed galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface exceeding 20.0 g/m2, and an alloyed galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: A hot-pressed member having excellent post-coating corrosion resistance and excellent resistance spot weldability, a method for manufacturing the hot-pressed member, and a steel sheet for hot pressing suitable for a hot-pressed member having excellent post-coating corrosion resistance and excellent resistance spot weldability. The hot-pressed member includes a Zn-based coated layer on a first side of a steel sheet, and a Zn-based coated layer on a second side of the steel sheet. A coating weight of Zn in the Zn-based coated layer on the first side of the steel sheet is 5 to 35 g/m2, and an average line roughness Ra of a surface of the Zn-based coated layer on the first side is less than or equal to 2.5 ?m. The average line roughness Ra of a surface of the Zn-based coated layer on the second side of the steel sheet is greater than or equal to 3.5 ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed is a galvannealed steel sheet including: a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet; and a galvannealed layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, ISi,Fe/ISi,bulk is 0.30 or more, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m in the thickness direction from the interface between the galvannealed layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a technique that can achieve both magnetic properties and machinability by cutting at a high level, which has been impossible with only the conventional techniques of improving the machinability by cutting using MnS or the like. A soft magnetic iron comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: less than 0.02%, Si: less than 0.05%, Mn: more than 0.03% and 0.50% or less, P: 0.002% or more and less than 0.006%, S: 0.013 % or more and 0.050% or less, Al: 0.010% or less, N: 0.0010% or more and 0.0100% or less, and B: 0.0003% or more and 0.0065% or less, with a balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities.

Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if the crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet. Provided is an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet having a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; and an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, where the crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: A method includes: manufacturing an automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part; and assembling an automotive body by attaching the manufactured automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part to the automotive body, wherein the manufacturing the automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part includes: manufacturing a pre-coated part including a tubular member formed using a hat-shaped section member including a top portion and a side wall portion, and a coating part having quality of material with a strength lower than that of the tubular member, the coating part being disposed with a gap of 0.2 mm to 3 mm on an outer surface of a portion including a corner connecting the top portion and the side wall portion in the tubular member to form a coating film; and forming a coating film by forming a coating layer by electrodeposition coating in at least the gap in the pre-coated part, and thermally curing the coating layer.