Abstract: An aluminum-iron-plated steel sheet including a base steel sheet and an aluminum-based plating layer on a surface of the base steel sheet. The aluminum-based plating layer includes an alloyed layer on the surface of the base steel sheet and an aluminum layer on the alloyed layer. The alloyed layer may be formed of one or more of Fe3Al, FeAl(Si), Fe2Al5, and FeAl3. A thickness of the alloyed layer may be 90% or more of a thickness of the aluminum-based plating layer. A surface fraction of Ti may be 2% or less and a surface fraction of Zn may be 1% or less, as observed on the surface of the aluminum-based plating layer.

Abstract: A wear resistant steel material has high hardness and excellent cut crack reistance, that can be applied to a thick steel material of which the thickness is 60 mm or more, that is not cracked even after being cut using gas, and a method of manufacturing the wear resistant steel material provides high hardness and excellent cut crack resistance.

Abstract: A gold nickel layer may comprise nitrogen inserted over a thickness equal to or greater than 0.20 nm, characterized in that the atomic concentration of gold is at least 15% over said thickness, the atomic concentration of nickel is at least 10% over said thickness and the atomic concentration of nitrogen is at least 5% over said thickness. A connector may comprise a portion of a surface which comprises such a gold nickel layer. A process for treating a gold nickel layer may comprise a step of implantation of nitrogen ions, emitted by an energy source of at least 20 keV, and wherein the implanted nitrogen ions are multi-energy ions.

Abstract: This steel has a steel sheet substrate and a protective film formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet substrate, the chemical composition of the steel sheet substrate is, by mass %, C: 0.25% to 0.65%, Si: 0.05% to 2.00%, Mn: 0.30% to 3.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, N: 0.010% or less, O: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 1.00%, and Cu: 0.10% to 1.00%, in an X-ray analysis in which measurement is carried out using a CuK? radiation, in a case where a peak intensity at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 36.6±0.5° is regarded as 100%, the protective film has a peak having a peak intensity of more than 250% at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 35.5±0.5° and a tensile strength is more than 1,500 MPa.

Abstract: A welded member includes: a first steel sheet including a base steel sheet and a zinc-based plating layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet; and a second steel sheet spot-welded on the first steel sheet and facing the zinc-based plating layer of the first steel sheet, a spot-welded zone being formed between the first steel sheet and the second steel sheet. A surface layer of the base steel sheet has a decarburization ratio of 30% or more. The decarburization ratio is represented by equation: Decarburization ratio (%) of surface layer=(1?average carbon concentration in surface layer/bulk carbon concentration)*100 where the surface layer refers to a region of the base steel sheet from the surface thereof to a depth of 35 ?m. A shoulder portion of the spot-welded zone includes a B-type crack having a length of 100 ?m or less, and no C-type crack.

Abstract: A black metal fastener member can be manufactured at low cost. The fastener member comprises a base material made of a copper alloy containing zinc at a concentration of 30% by mass or more and 43% by mass or less, and a black copper oxide coating covering at least a part of the base material. The black copper oxide coating has a lower layer and an upper layer. The lower layer is a layer below a center line with respect to the thickness of the black copper oxide coating and the upper layer is a layer above the center line. The porosity of the lower layer is smaller than the porosity of the upper layer. In some cases, the difference between the porosity of the lower layer and the porosity of the upper layer is 10% or more.

Abstract: Cladding in which at least two layers of alloys are joined, the cladding having high wear resistance, high workability, and excellent strength at the joining interface of the alloys. The cladding is composed of two or more layers including a first alloy and a second alloy joined to the first alloy. The hardness of the second alloy of the cladding is greater than that of the first alloy, and the difference in hardness between the first alloy and the second alloy is at least HRC 44. When a shearing test based on JIS G 0601 is performed on the cladding, the breakage is on the first alloy side.

Abstract: A high strength steel sheet has a yield-point elongation of 1% or greater and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or greater. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and microstructure. A ratio of retained austenite grains adjoining a retained austenite grain having a different crystal orientation to total retained austenite grains is 0.60 or greater, the ferrite has an average grain size of 5.0 ?m or less, and the retained austenite has an average grain size of 2.0 ?m or less. A value obtained by dividing a volume fraction V?a by a volume fraction V?b is 0.40 or greater, where the volume fraction V?a is a volume fraction of retained austenite in a fractured portion of a tensile test specimen after a warm tensile test at 150° C., and the volume fraction V?b is a volume fraction of retained austenite before the warm tensile test at 150° C.

Abstract: An example aluminum member consisting of a mother material containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and an anodic oxide film on the surface of the mother material, in which the arithmetical mean roughness Ra, the mean length of roughness curve elements RSm, and the Hunter whiteness of the aluminum member, measured from the surface side of the anodic oxide film, are 0.1 ?m or more, 10 ?m or less, and 60 to 90, respectively.

Abstract: Coated tool comprising a coated surface, the coated surface comprising a substrate having a surface on which a coating is deposited, wherein the substrate is made of a material comprising cobalt, and wherein the coating comprises at least one boron-comprising layer, wherein the at least one boron-comprising layer comprises Al and the boron comprised in this layer is present as boride, thereby the boron-comprising layer is able to form further layers for providing a diffusion barrier layer effect, in particular for stopping diffusion of cobalt from the substrate surface to the coating, when the coated tool or the coated surface is exposed to temperatures in a range between approximately 600 and 1200° C.

Abstract: A steel sheet for hot stamping according to the present invention has a plating layer being attached in an amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less and having a Ni content of 10 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less with a remainder including Zn and impurities on a surface of a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in a surface layer region, 15.0% or more of the crystal grains of one or two kinds of unauto-tempered martensite and lower bainite are included in terms of area percentage, and the average dislocation density is 4×1015 m/m3.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet that includes a base sheet, and an alloy-plated layer formed on the base sheet. Interfacial roughness between the alloy-plated layer and the base steel sheet is 25. ?m or less. Such an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet prevents microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance. A method for manufacturing such an aluminum alloy-plated steel is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot stamping comprising a steel sheet and a Zn—Ni plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, wherein the Zn—Ni plating layer has an Ni concentration of 8 mass % or more, a plating deposition amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less per surface, and an average grain size of 50 nm or less.

Abstract: A steel material has a chemical composition which consists of, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.30%, Si: 0.02 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 0.80%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.028% or less, Cr: 0.80 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.08 to 0.40%, V: 0.10 to 0.40%, Al: 0.005 to 0.060%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0030% or less, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and satisfies Formulae (1) and (2), in which, at a cross section parallel to the axial direction of the steel material for a steel piston, the number of Mn sulfides is 100.0 per mm2 or less, the number of coarse Mn sulfides having an equivalent circular diameter of 3.0 ?m or more is in a range of 1.0 to 10.0 per mm2, and the number of oxides is 15.0 per mm2 or less. 0.42?Mo+3V?1.50??(1) V/Mo?0.

Abstract: A seamless steel pipe of the present invention is a seamless steel pipe having a composition including, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.12%, Si: 0.01 to 0.8%, Mn: 0.10 to 2.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.040% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.100%, Cu: 0.03 to 0.80%, Ni: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mo: 0.01 to 0.20%, Sb: 0.002 to 0.50%, Cr: 0.004% or less, W: 0.002% or less, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities, and a structure including a ferrite phase having an area percentage of 50 to 65%, a pearlite phase having an area percentage of 2% or less, and one or both of a bainite phase and a martensitic phase representing the remainder, the seamless steel pipe having a yield strength of 230 MPa or more, and a tensile strength of 380 MPa or more.

Abstract: A hot-rolled (HR) strip steel with high flangeability at ultra-high strength levels with a high total elongation, bendability and toughness values, and a method of manufacturing the hot-rolled steel and use thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an inverse photonic structure comprising a first component comprising air holes or colloidal particles; and a metal oxide matrix comprising metal oxide nanocrystals, wherein the metal oxide nanocrystals comprise at least one of: a transition metal, titania, zirconia, alumina, iron oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, beryllia, a noble metal oxide, platinum group metal oxides, hafnia, molybdenum oxide, tungsten oxide, rhenium oxide, tantalum oxide, niobium oxide, vanadium oxide, chromium oxide, scandium oxide, yttria, lanthanum oxide, ceria, a rare earth oxide, thorium oxide, uranium oxide, other rare earth oxides, or a combination thereof, wherein the inverse photonics structure is crack-free for at least 10,000 repeat units of the first component.

Abstract: An aluminum brazing sheet has a multilayer structure of two or more layers of at least a core material and a brazing material, wherein an Al—Si—Mg—Bi-based brazing material containing, by mass %, 0.01% to 2.0% of Mg, 1.5% to 14.0% of Si, and 0.005% to 1.5% of Bi is clad on one surface or both surfaces of the core material to be located at an outermost surface of the aluminum brazing sheet, in the Al—Si—Mg—Bi based brazing material, there are more than 10 Mg—Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 0.01 ?m or more and less than 5.0 ?m when observed in a surface layer plane direction and there are less than 2 Mg—Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 5.0 ?m or more, and in the brazing material, there are less than 5 Bi particles having a diameter of 5.0 ?m or more when observed in the surface layer plane direction.

Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and its method of manufacture are provided. The method includes a process of heating to 1280° C. or more and hot rolling a slab containing, by mass %, Bi and a predetermined composition of constituents and having a balance of Fe and impurities to obtain hot rolled steel sheet. After hot rolling annealing, the hot rolled steel sheet is cold rolled one time or more with process annealing performed interposed so as to obtain cold rolled steel sheet, followed by a process of rapidly heating then decarburization annealing the steel sheet, a process of coating the surface of the cold rolled steel sheet after decarburization annealing with an annealing separator comprising sulfates or sulfides and having MgO as its main constituent, then performing finish annealing, a process of performing strictly controlled finish annealing, and a process of coating an insulating coating, then performing flattening annealing.

Abstract: A ceramic-copper composite having a flat plate shape, including: a ceramic layer; a copper layer; and a brazing material layer present between the ceramic layer and the copper layer. When a region having a length of 1,700 ?m in a long-side direction is a region P on a cut surface of the ceramic-copper composite obtained when the ceramic-copper composite is cut with a plane perpendicular to a main surface of the ceramic-copper composite, an average crystal grain size D1 of copper crystals at least partially present in a region P1 within 50 ?m on a side of the copper layer from an interface between the ceramic layer and the brazing material layer in the region P is 30 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less.