Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, has a microstructure in which a number density of alloy carbides present at grain boundaries and having a major axis of 10 to 100 nm is 1.0×108 to 1.0×1011/cm2 and a number density of alloy carbides present in grains and having a major axis of 10 nm or less is 1.0×1016 to 1.0×1019/cm3, and has a tensile strength of 1,030 MPa or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth sintered magnet which contains R (R represents one or more rare earth elements essentially including Nd), T (T represents one or more iron group elements essentially including Fe), B, M1 (M1 represents one or more elements selected from among Al, Si, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Mo, Sn, W, Pb and Bi) and M2 (M2 represents one or more elements selected from among Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Hf and Ta), while comprising an R2T14B phase as the main phase. This rare earth sintered magnet is characterized in that: the M1 is in an amount of from 0.5% by atom to 2% by atom; if (R), (T), (M2) and (B) are the respective atomic percentages of the above-described R, T, M2 and B, the relational expression (1) ((T)/14)+(M2)?(B)?((R)/2)+((M2)/2) is satisfied; and from 0.1% by volume to 10% by volume of all grain boundary phases in the magnet is composed of an R6T13M1 phase.

Abstract: A method for producing copper metal from copper concentrates without generating waste by: (a) oxidizing copper concentrate; (b) cleaning and cooling the gases; (c) feeding to a reduction reactor; (d) cleaning the gases; (e) discharging hot powders and calcines into water; (f) performing magnetic separation; (g) thickening and filtering the magnetic fraction; (h) floating silica and inert materials; (i) thickening and filtering the silica and inert materials; (j) thickening and filtering the final concentrate containing the copper metal and noble metals; (k) smelting the final concentrate of copper and noble metals; and (l) recirculating ground smelt slag to a roasting reactor.

Abstract: A low-alloyed magnesium (Mg) alloy with high ductility and high damping capacities at room temperature and a preparation method thereof are provided. The low-alloyed Mg alloy with high ductility and high damping capacities includes the following elements in percentage by mass: 0.5-1.5% of Gadolinium (Gd), 0.5-0.9% of Zinc (Zn), 0.3-0.6% of Zirconium (Zr), and the balance of Mg (Mg). By adding low-content Gd, Zn and Zr elements to a Mg matrix, the low-alloyed Mg alloy not only has effects of solid solution strengthening, precipitation strengthening and fine-grain strengthening, but also, under the interaction effect of a plurality of elements, promotes the non-basal dislocation slipping of Mg alloy, and stimulates the dislocation damping mechanism, thereby effectively improving the plasticity and damping properties of Mg alloy. The low-alloyed Mg alloy with high ductility and high damping capacities at room temperature has excellent plasticity and damping properties at room temperature.

Abstract: Provided is a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet that has a high YR, as well as high ductility, stretch flangeability, and bendability, improved shear workability, and a TS of 1,180 MPa or more. The base steel sheet of the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and steel microstructure. In particular, a number ratio of retained austenite (?) having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less is more than 50%, a number of bins of hardness frequency: 0.25 or more is 1, the area ratio of quenched martensite in a surface layer is 80% or less, a surface layer softening thickness is 10 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less, and the amount of low temperature range diffusible hydrogen is 0.015 mass ppm or less.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all of the oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specified composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite and bainite in total, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, and less than 3% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.

Abstract: A pure copper sheet of the present invention has a composition including 99.96 mass % or more of Cu, 0.01 mass ppm or more and 3.00 mass ppm or less of P, 10.0 mass ppm or less of a total content of Pb, Se, and Te, 3.0 mass ppm or more of a total content of Ag and Fe, and inevitable impurities as a balance, in which an average crystal grain size of crystal grains on a rolled surface is 10 ?m or more, an aspect ratio of the crystal grain on the rolled surface is set to 2.0 or less, and a length percentage of the small tilt grain boundary and the subgrain boundary with respect to all grain boundaries is set to 80% or less in terms of partition fraction.

Abstract: The stainless steel contains 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.15 mass % or less of C, 0.30 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of Si, 0.1 mass % or more and 15 mass % or less of Mn, 5 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less of Ni, 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.01 mass % or less of S, 16 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less of Cr, 0 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less of Mo, 0 mass % or more and 0.005 mass % or less of Al, 0 mass % or more and 0.0010 mass % or less of Mg, 0.0010 mass % or more and 0.0060 mass % or less of O, and 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.5 mass % or less of N, and at least includes an inclusion with an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more, having the average composition of 5 mass % or more of MnO, 20 mass % or more of Cr2O3+Al2O3, 1 mass % or more of Al2O3, and 5 mass % or less of CaO. The number density of the inclusion having the composition is 0.5 inclusions/mm2 or less.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to metallurgy and can be used to produce deformed semi-finished products as shapes of various cross-sections. Disclosed methods for producing deformed semi-finished products from aluminum-based alloys comprise preparing a melt containing iron and at least one element selected from the group consisting of zirconium, silicon, magnesium, copper, and scandium; producing a continuous casting bar by crystallisation of the melt; producing a deformed semi-finished product of a final or intermediate cross-section by hot rolling of the casting bar, with an initial casting bar temperature being not higher than 520° C. and a degree of deformation being of up to 60%; and additionally using at least one of the following operations: pressing of the casting bar in the temperature range of 300-500° C. by passing of the casting bar through the die, and water quenching of the resulting deformed semi-finished product at a temperature not lower than 450° C.

Abstract: A permanent magnet contains main phase grains. The main phase grains include Nd, Fe, and B. In a cross-section of the permanent magnet, voids are formed. The cross-section is approximately parallel to an easy magnetization axis direction of the permanent magnet. An area ratio of the voids in the cross-section is from 1% to 5%. A direction orthogonal to the easy magnetization axis direction in the cross-section is expressed as AB direction. A direction in which each of the voids extends in the cross-section is expressed as VD. An angle between AB direction and VD is expressed as ?. A horizontal axis of a frequency distribution of the voids in the cross-section represents the ?. A range of the horizontal axis of the frequency distribution is from 0° to 180°. The frequency distribution is maximum in a range of ? of from 60° to 120°.

Abstract: An end-use casting of a high chromium white iron, i.e. a casting that has been heat-treated, includes a ferrous matrix and at least two different chromium carbides dispersed in the matrix, with at least one of the chromium carbides including a transformation product of an as-cast chromium carbide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing thermomechanically produced hot strip products in which a steel alloy is melted; the steel alloy is adjusted so that a recrystallization during the hot rolling is suppressed; the final rolling temperature is greater than 800° C.; the melted steel alloy is cast into slab ingots and after being heated to a temperature above Ac3, the slab ingots are hot rolled until they reach a desired degree of deformation and a desired strip thickness; after the rolling, the strip is cooled to room temperature and for hardening purposes, is briefly heated to a temperature >Ac3 and cooled again, characterized in that the heating takes place with a temperature increase of more than 5 K/s, more than 10 K/s, more than 50 K/s, or more than 100 K/s, and is kept at a desired target temperature for a period of 0.5 to 60 s before cooling to yield improved mechanical properties.

Abstract: Provided is a rare earth magnesium alloy based on high-temperature and high-pressure hydrogenation and a preparation method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of alloy materials. In the present disclosure, a microstructure of a rare earth magnesium alloy is regulated based on high-temperature and high-pressure hydrogenation to significantly improve the plasticity of the rare earth magnesium alloy. A similar microstructure can also be achieved in other high-gadolinium (Gd) and high-yttrium (Y) systems. The present disclosure provides a unique approach to enhance the plasticity of a magnesium alloy, and makes it more likely to regulate the mechanical properties of such a rare earth alloy subsequently through other deformation processes. The rare earth magnesium alloy based on high-temperature and high-pressure hydrogenation can be used for neutron-shielding, and is a material with a structure-function integrated design that can be used in the nuclear energy field and space field.

Abstract: A high entropy alloy-based composition is provided that has the formula: (M1aM2bM3cM4dM5eM6f)CrAlY1-x-zZrxMoz where: each of M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M6 is a different alloying element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, Si, Mn, and Cu such that none of M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M6 are the same alloying element; 0.05?a?0.35; 0.05?b?0.35; 0.05?c?0.35; 0.05?d?0.35; 0.05?e?0.35; 0?f?0.35; a+b+c+d+e+f=1; 0?x?1; 0?z?1; and 0?x+z?1.

Abstract: A dust core including soft magnetic metal particles and a grain boundary phase, wherein the grain boundary phase includes Si and Ti.

Abstract: Provided herein is a stainless steel seamless pipe having a composition that contains, in mass %, C: 0.06% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 1.0% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 15.2% or more and 18.5% or less, Mo: 1.5% or more and 4.3% or less, Cu: 1.1% or more and 3.5% or less, Ni: 3.0% or more and 6.5% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.10% or less, O: 0.010% or less, and Sb: 0.001% or more and 1.000% or less, and in which C, Si, Mn, Cr, Ni, Mo, Cu, and N satisfy the predetermined formula, and the balance is Fe and incidental impurities, the stainless steel seamless pipe having a microstructure containing 30% or more martensitic phase, 65% or less ferrite phase, and 40% or less retained austenite phase by volume.

Abstract: A nickel-base alloy comprises, in weight percentages based on the total weight of the nickel-base alloy: 1.6% to 3.0% aluminum; 0.3% to 1.5% titanium; 1.5% to 4% tantalum; and nickel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of powder metallurgy, especially to a coarse grain cemented carbide and a preparation method thereof. Pseudo particles in coarse grain tungsten carbide are removed by pretreating process. Broken of the coarse grain tungsten carbide in traditional wet milling is avoid by solid-liquid stirring, spay granulating and surface covering, which also guarantee the uniform distribution of PEG and cobalt salt. Transformation from cobalt salt to cobalt is safely and effectively guaranteed by performing two sintering stages with different atmosphere and temperature to obtain a WC—Co mixture material. By performing spark plasma sintering process, the precipitation of nano fine grain tungsten carbide guarantees regrowth of defect occurred in pretreating process. The coarse grain cemented carbide with the average grain size of WC above 10 ?m, the uniform cobalt phase distribution and be bending strength not less than 2200 MPa is prepared.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for producing a surface-treated and surface-finished sheet steel. A sheet steel having a zinc-based coating is provided, wherein zinc grains are distributed within the coating. The surface-treated sheet steel are skin-pass rolled to form embossed regions and unembossed regions on the surface of the sheet steel provided with a zinc-based coating. Skin-pass rolling is performed with a degree of skin-pass greater than 1% in such a way that due to the force exerted by the skin-pass rolling the zinc grains in the embossed region are altered in dimension relative to the zinc grains in the unembossed region.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing an insulated spherical weld gold wire for integrated circuit double-layer stacked package, which relates to the technical field of microelectronic packaging spherical weld gold wires, and specifically comprises the following steps: alloy sheet preparation; alloy rod preparation; stretching; annealing treatment; activation treatment; sputtered insulating coating; multi-winding and sub-packaging, since the polyaryletherketone insulating coating is provided on the surface of the spherical weld gold wire in a scaled integrated circuit and the double-layer stacked package of the present invention, the spherical weld gold wire is allowed to contact and cross during packaging, without affecting the product performance, cost and quality; two high-hardness and high-conductivity materials of cobalt and germanium are added, which greatly enhances the tensile strength of the material.