Abstract: The present invention provides the use of aqueous polymer dispersions comprising (a) at least two monomers M1 having a glass transition temperature ?25° C., (b) at least two monomers M2 having a glass transition temperature <25° C., and also further monomers M3, as binders in coating materials for improving the shade stability (color retention).

Abstract: In various embodiments, sputtering targets are formed by introducing molybdenum powder into a sheet bar mold, pressing the powder to form a sheet bar, sintering the sheet bar to form an ingot having a density of at least 90% of a theoretical density, preheating the ingot, rolling the ingot to form a plate, and heat treating the plate.

Abstract: Organopolysiloxanes bearing regularly spaced pendent carboxylic acid groups or salts thereof have a block polymer structure and are derived by the double half-esterification of a dianhydride and a silanol- or carbinol-functional organopolysiloxane or sulfur analog thereof. The products can form stable aqueous dispersions without the need for a surfactant.

Abstract: Magnesium alloys which possess good processability and/or ductility while retaining good resistance to corrosion and/or degradation comprising Y: 0-10% by weight, Nd: 0-5% by weight, wherein the total of Y+Nd is at least 0.05% by weight, one or more heavy rare earths selected from Ho, Lu, Tm and Tb in a total amount of above 0.5% and no more than 5.5% by weight, Gd: 0-3.0% by weight, and Sm: 0-0.2% by weight. The alloy optionally includes one or more of: Dy: 0-8% by weight; Zr: 0-1.2% by weight; Al: 0-7.5% by weight; Zn and/or Mn: 0-2% by weight in total; Sc: 0-15% by weight; In: 0-15% by weight; Ca: 0-3% by weight; Er up to 5.5% by weight, provided that the total of Er, Ho, Lu, Tm and Tb is no more than 5.5% by weight; and one or more rare earths and heavy rare earths other than Y, Nd, Ho, Lu, Tm, Tb, Dy, Gd and Er in a total amount of up to 0.5% by weight; the balance being magnesium and incidental impurities up to a total of 0.3% by weight.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to Ni—Cr—P eutectic alloys bearing Nb as substitution for Cr that are capable of forming metallic glasses with critical rod diameter of at least 1 mm or more. With further minority addition of Si as replacement for P, such alloys are capable of forming metallic glasses with critical rod diameters as high as 10 mm or more. Specifically, Ni-based compositions with a Cr content of between 5 and 14 atomic percent, Nb content of between 3 and 4 atomic percent, P content of between 17.5 and 19 atomic percent, and Si content of between 1 and 2 atomic percent, were capable of forming bulk metallic glass rods with diameters as large as 6 mm or larger.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a metal composite material includes applying a mechanical impact force to a carbon material and a metal powder at such an intensity as capable of pulverizing the carbon material, thereby adhering the carbon material to a surface of the metal powder.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high elasticity aluminum alloy including a titanium compound. In particular, the high elasticity aluminum alloy includes Ti and B and the composition ratio of Ti and B is from about 3.5 to about 6:1. In addition, B is included in an amount of about 0.5 to 2 wt % in the high elasticity aluminum alloy, and both of Al3Ti and TiB2 phases are included therein as a reinforcement phase. Methods for producing the high elasticity aluminum alloy are also disclosed.

Abstract: A nozzle sand and method of use and operation, utilizes as a constituent component a granulated material that will break down to lose structural integrity and strength when subjected to temperatures and weight of molten ferrous materials, to compact to form at least a partial barrier to penetration of the molten ferrous material while remaining at least substantially in a granulated state. When the nozzle is opened, the loose nozzle sand will freely flow from the nozzle and the barrier will break under the weight of the ferrous material, such that the ferrous material will flow from the vessel through the nozzle. As a representative formulation, the nozzle sand can include between about 50 percent and about 60 percent by weight raw dolomitic lime; between about 20 percent and about 30 percent by weight forsterite; and between about 15 percent and about 20 percent by weight tabular alumina.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mechanical component made of steel including a surface-hardening phase. The method includes creating a rough form of the component with regions to be hardened, then successive case hardening with cooling without quenching, heating to an austenitizing temperature of the steel by induction heating the zones, and quenching.

Abstract: An aluminum strip for lithographic printing plate supports, from which printing plate supports can be produced with an improved roughenability and at the same time improved mechanical properties, particularly after a burn-in process, is formed of an aluminum alloy which has the following proportions of alloy constituents in wt. %: 0.05%?Mg?0.3%, 0.008%?Mn?0.3%, 0.4%?Fe?1%, 0.05%?Si?0.5%, Cu?0.04%, Ti?0.04%, inevitable impurities individually max. 0.01%, in total max. 0.05% and remainder Al.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing an Ni-base superalloy which enables a uniform coat of a glass lubricant to be maintained even after heated to hot forging temperature. The method of manufacturing an Ni-base superalloy in which a forging stock containing an Ni-base superalloy, coated with a lubricant, is subjected to hot forging includes: a preliminary oxidation step of previously generating a Cr oxide coating film having a film thickness of 0.5 to 50 ?m on the forging stock thereby to obtain a preliminarily oxidized material; a lubricant coating step of coating the preliminarily oxidized material with a glass lubricant containing borosilicate glass as a main component thereby to obtain a material to be forged; and a hot forging step of hot forging the material to be forged thereby to obtain a hot forged material.

Abstract: An object is made by sealing a metal body of the part to a nonmetal part of the object. The metal body is formed by a powdered metallurgy process, with the metal body being formed around or with the nonmetal part. Metal powder may be sintered or bonded to form the metal body around the nonmetal part, with the metal body then contracting as it sinters and cools to form the seal around the nonmetal part. The nonmetal part may be a glass or ceramic part, and may include electrical conductors passing through nonmetal part, and sealed in holes in the glass or ceramic. The object may be any of a variety of devices such as an electro-explosive device or an electronics device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an ultrasonic tip for an apicoectomy, such that the tip has a shape suitable for the shape of a tooth root, comprising the steps of: forming a feedstock by mixing a metal powder including stainless steel with a binder; injecting the feedstock to form an injection-molded part having a plurality of projections integrally formed on the surface thereof; performing debinding to remove the binder from the injection-molded part; sintering the injection-molded part; and performing annealing to increase the ductility and facilitate the bending of the sintered part.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a Ni-based heat-resistant superalloy a primary ?? phase with an average particle size of at least 500 nm comprising the steps of: providing a material to be hot-worked having a composition consisting of, by mass, 0.001 to 0.05% C, 1.0 to 4.0% Al, 4.5 to 7.0% Ti, 12 to 18% Cr, 14 to 27% Co, 1.5 to 4.5% Mo, 0.5 to 2.5% W, 0.001 to 0.05% B, 0.001 to 0.1% Zr, and the balance of Ni with inevitable impurities; heating the material to be hot-worked in a temperature having a range of 1,130 to 1,200° C. for at least 2 hours; cooling the material to be hot-worked heated by the heating step to a hot working temperature or less at a cooling rate of at most 0.03° C./second; and subjecting the material to be hot-worked to hot working after the cooling step.

Abstract: A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheets includes subjecting a steel slab to hot rolling to obtain a hot rolled sheet, the steel slab having a specific composition; then subjecting the hot rolled sheet to annealing and rolling to obtain a cold rolled sheet; then subjecting the cold rolled sheet to nitriding treatment with a nitrogen increase of 50 to 1000 ppm, during or after primary recrystallization annealing; then applying an annealing separator on the cold rolled sheet; and setting the staying time in a temperature range of 300 to 800° C. in the secondary recrystallization annealing to 5 to 150 hours.

Abstract: A component including a porous portion which may be permeable or impermeable to air, and a method for making. In one example, the component is a cooled wall segment for a gas turbine engine, including a body defining a contact surface configured to be in contact with circulating hot gas and an outer surface configured to be in contact with cooling air. The body includes a first portion with at least one retention element, and a porous second portion made of a porous material permeable to air, containing a plurality of interconnected pores, and having a porosity greater than that of the first portion. The second portion is engaged to the first portion, defines at least part of the contact surface, and defines at least part of a fluid communication between the outer surface and the contact surface through the interconnected pores. The wall segment may be for example a heat shield or shroud segment. Methods of forming components are also discussed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ester plasticizer composition, as a plasticizer composition, which comprises a hybrid alkyl-substituted terephthalate compound and a non-hybrid alkyl-substituted terephthalate compound as active ingredients, improves workability due to high absorption speed for the resins and short melting time, and thus may imparts a uniform foaming property upon being applied to wallpaper formulation.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet which has high strength enabling application to automobile body sheet and which is excellent in press-formability and shape fixability and a method of production of the same are provided. Aluminum alloy sheet having a composition of ingredients which contains Mg, Fe, and Ti, restricts the impurity Si to less than 0.20 mass %, and has a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities and a metal structure with an average grain size of less than 15 ?m and having second phase particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 3 ?m or more in a number of less than 300/mm2 and having a tensile strength of 240 MPa or more, a yield strength of less than 130 MPa, an elongation of 30% or more, and a plane strain fracture limit at a strain rate of 20/sec of 0.20 or more.

Abstract: A steel composition and method from making a dual phase steel therefrom. The dual phase steel may have carbon of about 0.05% by weight to about 0.12 wt %; niobium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.03 wt %; titanium of about 0.005 wt % to about 0.02 wt %; nitrogen of about 0.001 wt % to about 0.01 wt %; silicon of about 0.01 wt % to about 0.5 wt %; manganese of about 0.5 wt % to about 2.0 wt %; and a total of molybdenum, chromium, vanadium and copper less than about 0.15 wt %. The steel may have a first phase consisting of ferrite and a second phase having one or more of carbide, pearlite, martensite, lower bainite, granular bainite, upper bainite, and degenerate upper bainite. A solute carbon content in the first phase may be about 0.01 wt % or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cast steel for construction equipment bucket parts and parts for a construction equipment bucket manufactured by using the same, and the cast steel includes 0.27 to 0.34 wt % of carbon (C), 1.2 to 1.8 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.8 to 1.7 wt % of silicon (Si), 1.0 to 1.4 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.2 to 0.4 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.2 to 0.4 wt % of nickel (Ni), and a balance of iron and impurities.