Abstract: A diamond coating includes a first diamond layer made of minute diamond particles and a second diamond layer made of coarse diamond particles: in a flank-face side diamond coating, a mean coat thickness d2 is not less than 3 ?m and not more than 25 ?m, a first diamond layer is formed on a surface side and a second diamond layer is formed on a tool base side: a rake-face side diamond coating is in a smaller range of 50 ?m or 1/10 of a tool diameter from a tip of a base cutting-edge part; in the rake-face side diamond coating, a mean coat thickness d1 is a smaller one in a range not less than 0 ?m and not more than 5.0 ?m or a range less than d2: and a boundary part between the first diamond layer and the second diamond layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing electrically insulating and anti-corrosive coatings on electrical steel strip by using a phosphate-free aqueous dispersion. Furthermore, the invention relates to such an aqueous dispersion which is particularly suitable for providing electrically insulating and anti-corrosive coatings on electrical steel strip. The aqueous dispersion of the present invention is substantially free of phosphates and organic compounds and comprises silicates dissolved in water as an inorganic binder which forms the coating, and a mixture of oxide pigments of the elements titanium and aluminum. The subject matter of the invention also comprises a laminated electrical steel strip which is made from the electrical steel strip produced in the method according to the invention or from electrical steel strip coated with an aqueous dispersion according to the invention.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a fluidizing particle capable of improving a fluidity of a magnetic particle for a magnetic core and capable of improving a permeability of the magnetic core. The fluidizing particle includes a particle body having a magnetic property and a coating layer including a silicon compound covering the particle body, wherein a particle size of the fluidizing particle is 10 to 40 nm, and a circularity of the fluidizing particle is 0.55 or more.

Abstract: A blade has an airfoil having a tip. The blade has a metallic substrate and a coating system atop the substrate at the tip. The coating system has: a first layer of at least 99.0% weight nickel; an abrasive layer having a matrix and an abrasive at least partially embedded in the matrix; and a second layer between the first layer and the matrix. The second layer is tougher or more ductile than at least one of the first layer and the matrix.

Abstract: An article for a high temperature environment includes a first ceramic composite substrate, a second ceramic composite substrate, and a high temperature interface between a first surface of the first ceramic composite substrate and a second surface of the second ceramic composite substrate. The high temperature interface includes at least one high temperature interface layer that includes a ceramic matrix and a plurality of fibers distributed through the ceramic matrix.

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 hard carbon film that forms a sliding surface of a sliding member, wherein the hard carbon film includes terminal atoms that bond to carbon atoms and has a plurality of protruding shaped parts, part of which protrude from the surface thereof, with the periphery of each of the plurality of protruding shaped parts being terminated by a terminal atom. A manufacturing method for the hard carbon film for producing the hard carbon film on a sliding surface of the sliding member using arc vapor deposition having graphite as the vaporization source, wherein a gas containing the terminal atoms that bond to carbon atoms is introduced, and the plurality of protruding shaped parts is grown on the surface of the hard carbon film while terminating the periphery of the plurality of protruding shaped parts by bonding of the terminal atoms to carbon atoms.

Abstract: There is provided a metal member capable of effectively preventing a coating layer from peeling off from a base. The metal member in an embodiment is a metal member that is used in a solid-oxide type electrochemical stack, and includes: a base formed of ferritic stainless steel; and a metal film provided on the base, in which the metal film includes a first metal layer containing Co and a second metal layer made of Mn, and is a stack in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are sequentially stacked from the side of the base.

Abstract: Methods of forming sintered coatings are provided, along with the resulting coatings on a substrate. The sintered coating may comprise a rare earth compound and a sintering aid, with the rare earth compound has the formula: A1?bBbZ1?dDdMO6 where A is Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Fe, Cr, Co, Mn, Bi, or a mixture thereof; b is 0 to about 0.5; Z is Hf, Ti, or a mixture thereof; D is Zr, Ce, Ge, Si, or a mixture thereof; d is 0 to about 0.5; and M is Ta, Nb, or a mixture thereof. The coating may be densified at a sintering temperature, such as 1300° C. to 1600° C.

Abstract: The disclosure describes articles having coating systems configured to inhibit or prevent crystallization of TGO at the operating temperature of the article. An article includes a substrate defining a surface; a bond coat on the surface of the substrate; a coating layer that includes a boron dopant configured to inhibit crystallization of amorphous silicon dioxide thermally grown oxide on the bond coat at an operating temperature of the article. By inhibiting or preventing TGO crystallization, the described coating systems may increase a useable life of the component.

Abstract: An evaporator body for a PVD coating system comprises a basic body and an evaporator surface, to which a titanium dihydride layer is applied. A titanium hydride layer comprises an organic carrier agent and titanium hydride as the single inorganic solid. The thickness of the layer is less than or equal to 10 ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a high-strength double-sided stainless steel clad sheet, including a substrate layer, and stainless steel clad layers clad-rolled on double sides of the substrate layer. The substrate layer consists, in mass percent, the chemical elements: C: 0.03-0.12%, 0<Si?0.30%, Mn: 0.2-1.0%, Al: 0.02-0.04%, Ti: 0.01-0.03%, Nb: 0.005-0.020%, and N: 0.003-0.006%, with the balance being iron and other inevitable impurities. Also disclosed in the present invention is a manufacturing method for the high-strength double-sided stainless steel clad sheet, including the steps of: (1) obtaining the substrate layer and the stainless steel clad layer; (2) billet making; (3) clad-rolling; and (4) solution annealing and pickling treatment: controlling the solution temperature to be 950-1020° C., and then cooling down to room temperature at an average cooling rate of 20-50° C./s.

Abstract: The present invention provides a soft magnetic alloy having good soft magnetic properties. The soft magnetic alloy includes nanocrystals having an average Heywood diameter value of 5.0 nm or more and 25.0 nm or less, in which an average circularity of the nanocrystals is 0.50 or more and 0.90 or less.

Abstract: Sintered cemented carbides are described herein exhibiting enhanced high temperature properties without dramatic losses in bending strength. In some embodiments, a sintered cemented carbide composition comprises tungsten carbide, a metallic binder phase comprising at least one metal of the iron group, and at least one solid solution carbide phase comprising tantalum (Ta) and molybdenum (Mo), wherein a value of (Mo/Ta) in the sintered cemented carbide composition is from 0.3-100, and the sintered cemented carbide composition has a transverse rupture strength of at least 4000 MPa.

Abstract: A metallic part is disclosed. The part may comprise a functionally graded monolithic structure characterized by a variation between a first material composition of a first structural element and a second material composition of at least one of a second structural element. The first material composition may comprise an alpha-beta titanium alloy. The second material composition may comprise a beta titanium alloy.

Abstract: An expanded metal produced by repeated penetration of a movable cutting die including teeth into a metal sheet that is run through an expansion device in a feed direction, the expanded metal including a plurality of loops, wherein the loops include bars that envelop loop openings and that are connected in nodes, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening length measured in the feed direction along a line from a node center to node another center of two nodes that are arranged behind one another in the feed direction, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening width that is measured transversal to the feed direction along a line from a node center to a node center of two nodes that are arranged adjacent to each other transversal to the feed direction.

Abstract: A refractory article includes a body including a ceramic having an aluminosilicate present in an amount of at least 70 wt % and not greater than 99 wt % for a total weight of the body, and the body further includes a dopant including a Mg-containing oxide compound and a Fe-containing oxide compound, and the dopant is present in an amount within a range including at least 1 wt % and not greater than 12 wt %.

Abstract: The invention relates to multilayer oxide ceramic bodies and in particular presintered multilayer oxide ceramic blanks and oxide ceramic green bodies, which comprise at least two different layers and are suitable for dental applications, wherein at least one layer contains La2O3 and the at least two different layers differ in their content of La2O3. These bodies can be thermally densified by further sintering without distortion and are therefore particularly suitable for the production of dental restorations. The invention also relates to a process for the production of such multilayer oxide ceramic bodies as well as a process for the production of dental restorations using the multilayer oxide ceramic bodies.

Abstract: Disclosed is to provide a composite structure used as a member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus with which low-particle generation can be improved, as well as a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including the same. A composite structure including a base material and a structure that is provided on the base material and has a surface, in which the structure comprises Y3Al5O12 as a main component, and has an indentation hardness being larger than 8.5 GPa features excellent low-particle generation and is suitably used as a member for a semiconductor apparatus.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet includes a chemical conversion coating with a thickness of 3.0 ?m or less, the chemical conversion coating being placed on a surface of a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet including a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating film containing Al: more than 1.0 mass % and 15 mass % or less, a balance being Zn and inevitable impurities. The chemical conversion coating contains AlH2P3O10.2H2O and a compound containing one or more elements selected from Mg, Ca, and Sr such that a sum of contents of AlH2P3O10.2H2O and the compound is 3.0 mass % to 50 mass %.