Abstract: A casting core assembly is disclosed herein. The casting core assembly comprises a casting core and a bumper assembly. The bumper assembly is disposed on an outer surface of the casting core. The bumper assembly comprises a receptacle and a metal apparatus. The metal apparatus may be a pin, a sphere, or the like.

Abstract: The method heats the metal foil made of amorphous soft magnetic material while bringing the metal foil into close contact with a placement surface of a metal base such that the metal foil conforms to the placement surface, to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foil into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. In the crystallization, the metal foil is heated at a heating temperature to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material, the heating temperature being higher than or equal to a crystallization starting temperature at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material and allowing a temperature of the placement surface to be lower than a temperature of the metal foil having temperature rise due to heat generated by self-heating during crystallization, and the heat generated by self-heating of the metal foil during crystallization is absorbed by the base.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for collecting parameters for casting solidification simulation and a gridded design method for a pouring and riser system, comprising calculating thermodynamic parameters of a superalloy; obtaining cooling curves of the superalloy with different thickness; measuring a linear expansion coefficient of the superalloy as a function of temperature; the design method comprising: simulating a solidification process with tubular features of different thickness, and determining a feeding distance of the features of different thickness; establishing a gridded pouring and riser system, dividing the casting into a plurality of modules according to the thickness, and dividing a cell inside each module, and ensuring that a size of the cell is less than the feeding distance with the thickness; simulating filling and solidification of castings and the gridded pouring and riser system, and analyzing simulation results of defects.

Abstract: The device and method for manufacturing metal clad plates in way of continuous casting and rolling provided by the present invention, combines the continuous casting, rolling and heat treatment methods used for single material production with the continuous and large-scale production method of composite strip, greatly improves the production efficiency of composite plates. The present invention can be used for producing single-sided or double-sided composite plates with different thickness specifications, wherein the base material or the composited material can be selected in a wide range, including carbon steel, stainless steel, special alloy steel, titanium, copper and the like. The invention realizes the production of composite plates by continuous casting and rolling, and reduces energy consumption and costs.

Abstract: The invention provides a powder magnetic core and a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder includes: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a core for hollow product manufacture including a multilayer filling material, which may be used in forming a cooling water circulation channel through which a fluid such as cooling water may pass, and a method of manufacturing a hollow product using the core, and the core includes a pipe, having a hollow formed in the pipe and an opening formed at both ends of the pipe so that the hollow is exposed to the outside through the opening, a first support member, being disposed inside the hollow and having a space formed in the first support member, a second support member, being disposed in the space, and a melting bar, passing through the second support member in a longitudinal direction of the melting bar, wherein the melting bar melts and forms a space in the second support member when the melting bar is heated.

Abstract: Provided is a brazing filler material for bonding iron-based sintered member that includes a sintered compact containing Cu, Mn, and a remainder of Ni and unavoidable impurities, and an oxide film formed on a surface of the sintered compact. An oxygen concentration may account for not less than 0.1% by mass of a total amount of the brazing filler material. The oxide film may contain Mn.

Abstract: A core structure for a providing a cooling passage in a gas turbine engine includes a core body that has a first passage core. The first passage core has a first width in a chord-wise direction near a first wall. A second width in the chord-wise direction near a second wall. A third width in the chord-wise direction between the first and second walls. The third width being smaller than the first and second widths to form an hourglass shape.

Abstract: A casting tool for a piston may include a casting mold for forming a piston part from a casting melt and a casting head including a feeder for feeding the casting melt into the casting mold. The casting head may include a ring-shaped groove, and the groove may include an inner groove flank for forming the casting melt into a circumferential, ring-shaped sealing rib such that an inner rib flank of the sealing rib rests with a sealing effect against the inner groove flank when the casting melt solidifies in the groove. Additionally or alternatively, the casting head may include a ring-shaped collar, and the collar may include an outer collar flank for forming the casting melt to provide a circumferential, ring-shaped sealing groove such that an outer groove flank of the sealing groove rests with a sealing effect against the outer collar flank when the casting melt solidifies.

Abstract: A core for the foundry of an aeronautical part such as a turbine blade, the core being intended to be disposed in an inner housing defined by a mold, the core comprising a body intended to form the internal shape of the turbine blade, an impact portion, disposed on at least a portion of the periphery of the body so as to break a fluid jet when filling the inner housing with the fluid, the impact portion comprising a top and at least one deflection wall converging towards the top.

Abstract: The invention provides a high temperature resistant Portland cement slurry and a production method thereof. The high temperature resistant Portland cement slurry comprises the following components by weight: 100 parts of an oil well Portland cement, 60-85 parts of a high temperature reinforcing material, 68-80 parts of fresh water, 1-200 parts of a density adjuster, 0.1-1.5 parts of a suspension stabilizer, 0.8-1.5 parts of a dispersant, 3-4 parts of a fluid loss agent, 0-3 parts of a retarder and 0.2-0.8 part of a defoamer. The high temperature resistant Portland cement slurry has a good sedimentation stability at normal temperature, and develops strength rapidly at a low temperature. The compressive strength is up to 40 MPa or more at a high temperature of 350° C., and the long-term high-temperature compressive strength develops stably without degradation.

Abstract: A method of producing a carbonated composite material includes: providing a carbonatable cementitious material in particulate form; mixing the carbonatable cementitious material with water to produce a mix; forming a predetermined shape with the mix, wherein the predetermined shape has an initial pore structure containing an initial pore solution having a first pH; pre-conditioning the predetermined shape to remove a predetermined amount of the water from the predetermined shape to produce a pre-conditioned shape; carbonating the pre-conditioned shape in an environment comprising carbon dioxide to produce a modified pore structure containing a modified pore solution having and a second pH, wherein the difference between the first pH and the second pH is represented by a ?pH, and the ?pH is 1.0 or less.

Abstract: This thin strip manufacture method is a thin strip manufacture method for manufacturing a thin strip by supplying molten steel to a molten steel pool formed by a pair of rotating cooling drums and a pair of side weirs to form and grow a solidified shell on a peripheral surface of the cooling drums, wherein a pressing force P of the pair of the cooling drums is set so that the pressing force P (kgf/mm) of the pair of cooling drums, casting thickness D (mm), and radius R (m) of the cooling drums satisfy 0.90?P×(D×R)0.5?1.30.

Abstract: A method for preparing an oxygen-free passivated titanium or titanium-alloy powder product by means of gas-solid fluidization is provided.

Abstract: Articles are manufactured using self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) reactions. Particulates including reactants can be blended to form a particulate blend. The particulate blend can be preformed. The preform article can be heated to a pre-heat temperature being below an auto-activation temperature and above a minimum compression activated synthesis temperature. Compressive stress can be exerted on the preform article at the pre-heat temperature to initiate the SHS reaction between the reactants and thereby form a product metallic compound. At approximately peak temperature, a flow stress of the product metallic compound can be exceeded to substantially reduce porosity and thereby form a shaped substantially dense article.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a high-strength and high-thermal conductivity new material composite brake drum and a preparation method thereof. The composite brake drum is composed of an outer layer of high-strength ductile iron and an inner layer of high-thermal conductivity gray cast iron, which are integrated by centrifugal compound casting. The outer layer of the composite brake drum is firstly poured on the production line of iron particle-filled coated sand shells. Due to the fast solidification and cooling of the iron particle-filled coated sand shells, the castings have the characteristics of fine and dense organization structures to ensure the high strength and high toughness of the ductile iron of the outer layer. On this basis, the inner gray cast iron is poured under centrifugal casting conditions, in which a good metallurgical bond between the inner and outer layers is achieved by controlling the centrifugal casting process.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for centering a pouring tube in a pouring tube assembly using a multi-piece centering sleeve by inserting a pouring tube into a holding casting aperture in a holding casting; pouring grout to fill a portion of a gap between the pouring tube and the holding casting; slipping the centering sleeve over the outside of the pouring tube until it is press fit in a portion of the gap between the pouring tube and the holding casting; adjusting the centering sleeve to center-position the pouring tube; grouting the remainder of the gap to fill all voids in the gap; installing a parting ring on top of the holding casting; and installing a holding ring around the holding casting and parting ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1; 1a; 1b; 1c; 1d; 1e) for producing a casting (36) formed from an amorphous or partially amorphous metal, which comprises a casting mold (3; 3a; 3b; 3c; 3d; 3e) having at least one filling opening (16; 16a; 16b, 41; 16c; 16d; 16e) for introducing a casting material (15; 15a; 15b; 15c; 15d; 15e) forming the casting (36) and a device for melting the casting material (15; 15a; 15b; 15c; 15d; 15e). The melting device expediently has at least one region (13; 13; 13b; 40, 13c; 13d; 13e) which is provided for melting the casting material (15; 15a; 15b; 15c; 15d; 15e). Advantageously, an apparatus is created that allows a particularly targeted application of melting energy into the casting material.

Abstract: A method of curing a low Ca/Mg cement composition is described that includes providing a predetermined quantity of the low Ca/Mg cement composition in uncured form; and reacting the uncured low Ca/Mg cement composition with a reagent chemical for a time sufficient to cure said cementitious material, wherein said reagent chemical is a compound synthesized from CO2 and comprises dicarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic acids, or alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids.

Abstract: A directional solidification casting assembly includes a directional solidification mold having an interior chamber with a shape of an object to be cast using directional solidification of molten metal in a growth direction of the mold and a feed line conduit. The conduit is fluidly coupled with a container source of the molten metal and is coupled with the mold at a gating. The feed line conduit conveys the molten metal into the mold through the gating for directional solidification of the object to be cast in the mold. At least a downstream portion of the feed line conduit that is between the intermediate location of the feed line conduit and the second open end of the feed line conduit is located below the gating along the growth direction of the mold.