Abstract: An aluminum-alloy sheet has a chemical composition containing Si: 2.3-3.8 mass %, Mn: 0.35-1.05 mass %, Mg: 0.35-0.65 mass %, Fe: 0.01-0.45 mass %, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu: 0.0010-1.0 mass %, Cr: 0.0010-0.10 mass %, Zn: 0.0010-0.50 mass %, and Ti: 0.0050-0.20 mass %. The ratio of the Si content to the Mn content is 2.5 or more and 9.0 or less. The aluminum-alloy sheet exhibits an elongation of 23% or more and a strain hardening exponent of 0.28 or more at a nominal strain of 3%. Such an aluminum-alloy sheet is well suited for press forming (stamping) applications, such as forming automobile body panels.

Abstract: A hydrogenation-dehydrogenation method for a TiAl alloy includes performing hydrogenation treatment of the TiAl alloy in an environment of a set temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which phase transformation to a ? phase starts; and performing dehydrogenation treatment of the TiAl alloy which has been subjected to the hydrogenation treatment. The set temperature ranges from 1,100° C. to 1,600° C.

Abstract: An integrated pressure leaching, heap leaching process for recovering copper from sulphidic feed containing iron, arsenic, and copper. Aqueous feed slurry of the sulphidic feed is pressure oxidized to form a liquid phase containing free sulphuric acid and aqueous copper sulphate, and to precipitate arsenic as solid iron arsenic compounds. Treated slurry is withdrawn from the pressure vessel and the liquid phase is separated from the solids. Copper is recovered from the separated liquid phase and generates a solution enriched in acid and depleted in copper. At least a portion of this solution is neutralized in a copper heap leach to produce a PLS containing copper and reduced in acid. At least a portion of the heap leach PLS is neutralized to produce a solution further reduced in acid, and solids containing copper precipitates, followed by a liquid solid separation.

Abstract: The use of pellets comprising one or more thermoplastic material(s) of more than 40%, based on the total dry weight of the pellets and one or more cellulosic material(s) of more than 20%, based on the total dry weight of the pellets, as a reducing agent in a process for making pig iron in a blast furnace. The pellets can be provided in unground form, as a partial replacement of coke through the top of the blast furnace, or can be provided as reducing agent in the raceway in an amount of higher than 10 kg/ton iron.

Abstract: A stud-weldable rebar and a method for making the rebar are disclosed. The rebar has a steel body with a weld end and a diameter that is substantially uniform along a length of the body. A tip portion at the weld end includes a hardened zone and a base portion is formed of the remaining steel body. The hardened zone has a hardness that is about 1.5-3.0 times greater than a hardness of the base portion. Induction hardening is used to form the hardened zone.

Abstract: A polycrystalline super hard construction has a first region having a body of thermally stable polycrystalline super hard material having a plurality of intergrown grains of super hard material; a second region forming a substrate having a hard phase and a binder phase; and a third region interposed between the first and second regions. The third region includes a composite material having a first phase comprising a plurality of non-intergrown grains of super hard material, and a matrix material. A fourth region interposed between the second and third region has a major proportion having one or more components of the binder material of the second region, and one or more reaction products between the binder material of the second region and one or more components of the third region.

Abstract: A copper alloy for valve seats, and more particularly a copper alloy for valve seats with improved wear resistance, contains 12 to 24% by weight of Ni, 2 to 4% by weight of Si, 7 to 13% by weight of Cr, 20 to 35% by weight of Fe, and a balance of Cu and other impurities.

Abstract: To provide an austenitic stainless steel material having a high creep strength and a high creep ductility even in a high-temperature environment at 800° C. or more. An austenitic stainless steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition that includes, in mass %: C: 0.060% or less; Si: 1.0% or less; Mn: 2.00% or less; P: 0.0010 to 0.0400%; S: 0.010% or less; Cr: 10 to 25%; Ni: 25 to 45%; Nb: 0.2 to 2.0%; W: 2.5 to 6.0%; B: 0.0010 to 0.0100%: Al: 2.5 to 4.5%; and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfies Formulae (1) and (2), and the sum of the content of dissolved Nb and the content of dissolved W is 3.2 mass % or more. (W/184+Nb/93)/(C/12)?5.5??(1) (W/184+Nb/93)/(B/11)?450??(2) In Formulae (1) and (2), the content in mass % of the corresponding element is substituted for each symbol of element.

Abstract: Provided is an alloy steel manufacturing method, the method including: preparing a manganese-containing first molten ferroalloy; preparing a chromium-containing second molten alloy; preparing molten steel; mixing the first molten ferroalloy and the second molten ferroalloy to manufacture third molten ferroalloy; and mix pouring the third molten ferroalloy and the molten steel to manufacture an alloy steel, wherein the phosphorous concentration in the molten steel may efficiently be controlled by reducing the converter end point temperature of the molten steel to improve a phosphorous control capacity during converter refining.

Abstract: When performing dephosphorization treatment of hot metal by adding a refining agent as a lime source and an oxygen source (dephosphorizing agent(s) and a gaseous oxygen source into the hot metal accommodated in a hot metal holding container, the refining agent used is a refining agent having an Ig-loss value of from 4.0% by mass to 35.0% by mass and including 60% by mass or more of quicklime.

Abstract: Bendability of a copper alloy wire is improved without decrease in an electrical conductivity of the copper alloy wire made of copper alloy containing zirconium. A cable includes: a two-core stranded wire formed by intertwining two electrical wires made of a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor; a filler formed around the two-core stranded wire; and a sheath formed around the filler and the electrical wire. The conductor is a copper alloy wire in which a precipitate containing the zirconium disperses, and has a crystal gain diameter that is equal to or smaller than 1 ?m, an electrical conductivity that is equal to or higher than 87% IACS, and a tensile stress that is equal to or larger than 545 MPa.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a copper alloy sheet material, wherein the copper alloy sheet material contains nickel (Ni) 0.5 to 1.5% by weight; cobalt (Co) 0.3 to 1.5% by weight; silicon (Si) 0.35 to 0.8% by weight; chromium (Cr) 0.05 to 0.5% by weight; a balance amount of copper (Cu); and inevitable impurities. Further, disclosed is a copper alloy sheet material produced using the method.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-efficient rolling process for magnesium alloy sheet. Parameters of the rolling process are: the rolling speed of each rolling pass is 10-50 m/min, the rolling reduction of each rolling pass is controlled to be 40-90%, and both the preheating temperature before rolling and the rolling temperature of each rolling pass are 250-450° C. The present disclosure also provides a preparation method for magnesium alloy sheet, comprising: 1) preparing rolling billets; 2) high-efficient hot rolling; and 3) performing annealing. The rolling process can improve the mechanical performance especially, the strength and ductility of the sheet.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that ensures easily manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece having excellent soft magnetic properties. The method is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece and including: increasing a temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to a crystallization starting temperature; and increasing the temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from the crystallization starting temperature to a crystallization process termination temperature equal to or less than a crystallization completion temperature.

Abstract: A low thermal expansion alloy having a high rigidity and a low thermal expansion coefficient comprising, by mass %, C: 0.040% or less, Si: 0.25% or less, Mn: 0.15 to 0.50%, Cr: 8.50 to 10.0%, Ni: 0 to 5.00%, and Co: 43.0 to 56.0%, S: 0 to 0.050%, and Se: 0 to 0.050% and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, the contents of Ni, Co, and Mn represented by [Ni], [Co], and [Mn] satisfying 55.7?2.2[Ni]+[Co]+1.7[Mn]?56.7 and the structure being an austenite single phase.

Abstract: A nickel-niobium intermetallic alloy contains, in weight percent, silicon from about 1.5 to about 3.5 percent; chromium from 5 to about 15 percent; nickel from about 45 to about 75 percent; niobium from about 14 to about 30 percent; cobalt up to about 7 percent; and iron up to about 10 percent; wherein the nickel plus niobium content is about 70 to about 90 percent and the total silicon, chromium, cobalt and iron content is about 10 to about 30 percent. The alloy can have a cast microstructure of at least 95 volume percent intermetallic phases and no more than about 5 volume percent solid solution phases. The intermetallic phases can include rod-like intermetallic phases of Ni3Nb and Ni8Nb7. The microstructure can be a lamellar microstructure and/or the microstructure can have less than 5 volume percent Ni—Fe and Ni—Co rich intermetallic phases.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a method for producing a substrate for epitaxial growth having a higher degree of biaxial crystal orientation without forming an irregular part a3. The method for producing a substrate for epitaxial growth comprising a step of laminating a metal base material and a copper layer having an fcc rolling texture by surface-activated bonding, a step of applying mechanical polishing to the copper layer, and a step of carrying out orientation heat treatment of the copper layer, wherein the copper layer is laminated in such a way that, when ratios of the (200) plane of the copper layer before laminated and of the copper layer after laminated when measured by XRD are I0Cu and I0CLAD, respectively and ratios of the (220) plane of the copper layer before laminated and of the copper layer after laminated are I2Cu and I2CLAD, respectively, I0Cu<20%, I2Cu=70 to 90%, and I0CLAD<20%, I2CLAD=70 to 90% and I0CLAD?I0Cu<13%.

Abstract: This free-cutting copper alloy contains Cu: 58.5 to 63.5%, Si: more than 0.4% and 1.0% or less, Pb: 0.003 to 0.25%, and P: 0.005 to 0.19%, with the remainder being Zn and inevitable impurities, a total amount of Fe, Mn, Co and Cr is less than 0.40%, a total amount of Sn and Al is less than 0.40%, a relationship of 56.3?f1=[Cu]?4.7×[Si]+0.5×[Pb]?0.5×[P]?59.3 is satisfied, constituent phases of a metal structure have relationships of 20?(?)?75, 25?(?)?80, 0?(?)<2, 20?(?)1/2×3+(?)×(?0.5×([Si])2+1.5×[Si])?78, and 33?(?)1/2×3+(?)×(?0.5×([Si])2+1.5×[Si])+([Pb])1/2×33+([P])1/2×14, and a compound including P is present in ? phase.

Abstract: Disclosed are a BCC dual phase refractory superalloy with high phase stability and a manufacturing method therefor, the alloy comprising one or more of Ti, Zr, and Hf as Group 4 transition metals, one or more of Na and Ta as Group 5 transition metals, and Al, and having a structure of a BCC phase, wherein the BCC phase is composed of a disordered BCC phase and an ordered BCC phase, and wherein the ordered BCC phase is formed by allowing Al, which is a BCC phase forming element, to be soluted in an area of the BCC phase where the contents of the Group 5 transition metals are more than those of the Group 4 transition metals, so that the present disclosure provides a BCC dual phase refractory superalloy with high phase stability, characterized in that when a BCC dual phase with the ordered BCC phase and the disordered BCC phase separated from each other is formed by aging, the aging condition is precisely controlled through the apex temperature (Tc) of the BCC phase miscibility gap, expressed by (Equation 1) bel

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ingot made of titanium-based metallic compound, includes providing raw material fragments; melting the raw material fragments into a liquid metal in at least one basin; keeping in the molten state the liquid metal in the at least one basin; pouring the liquid metal from the at least one basin into a crucible by overflow from the at least one basin into the crucible; forming an ingot by cooling of the liquid metal into the crucible; wherein the method further includes preheating the raw material fragments before the melting of the raw material fragments with a preheating temperature higher than or equal to 75% of the liquidus temperature of the raw material fragments, and lower less than the liquidus temperature of the raw material fragments.