Abstract: A fiber-reinforced metal composite material comprising a reinforcing material and a matrix, said reinforcing material being inorganic fibers containing at least two components selected from carbon (as a simple substance), metal oxides, metal carbides, metal nitrides and metal borides, and said matrix being metal alloys containing zinc and aluminum, or zinc and magnesium as main component.

Abstract: Hardfacing of metal parts employing a thin, homogeneous ductile foil is disclosed. The hardfacing foil has a composition consisting essentially of about 0 to about 25 atom percent cobalt, 0 to about 30 atom percent nickel, 0 to about 30 atom percent chromium, 0 to about 5 atom percent tungsten, 0 to about 4 atom percent molybdenum, about 2 to about 25 atom percent boron, 0 to about 15 atom percent silicon, and 0 to about 5 atom percent carbon, the balance being iron and incidental impurities with the proviso that the total or iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, tungsten and molybdenum ranges from about 70 to 88 atom percent and the total of boron, silicon and carbon ranges from about 12 to 30 atom percent. The ductile foil permits continuous hardfacing of soft matrix, like low carbon and low alloy steels, imparting superior resistance to wear and corrosion.

Abstract: Metallic work pieces are annealed under protective gas in bright annealing furnaces with subsequent cooling line. Exogas or nitrogen is used as protective gas. In the latter case, liquid nitrogen is evaporated and introduced at several locations in the bright annealing furnace and the cooling line.For the purpose of decreasing the installation costs, increasing the performance and improving the quality, the liquid nitrogen is sprayed without prior evaporation onto the material to be annealed, namely in the end zone of the cooling line.

Abstract: Shielding means comprising a non-conductive base material having thereon a combined electrolessly-deposited metal layer of copper over lain with a second layer.

Abstract: A soft solder of Pb alloy for semiconductor devices that contains 1 to 65 wt % of Sn or In or both, the balance being Pb and incidental impurities which include less than 50 ppb of radioisotopes and the count of radioactive alpha-particles being not more than 0.5 CPH/cm.sup.2. The solder exhibits high adhesive strength and good wettability. The properties of this material may be further improved by addition of 1 to 10 wt % of Ag.

Abstract: Steel sheet, especially suitable for car-body fabrication, galvanized and further protected by a layer of metallic chromium and hydrated oxides of chromium, electrolytically deposited. The improvement is that the metallic chromium is present in extremely fine particles that exert a very marked covering and protective effect on the underlying zinc. In this way, and with the help of the chromium oxides that further cover and protect the underlying layers, a product is obtained whose corrosion resistance is far superior to that of similar products.

Abstract: The invention refers to a corrosion-proof solderable system of layers which is applied to a support and is made of a solderable layer and a corrosion-protection layer covering the solderable layer and protecting it from complete oxidation. In order to create a layer system which is simpler and cheaper to manufacture, the solderable layer contains a proportion of oxidizable metal.The corrosion-protection layer is made by oxidation of the solderable layer on its free surface.

Abstract: A component of titanium or alloys thereof is placed in an autoclave. Nitrogen gas or ammonia is pumped into the autoclave. The chemically untreated component is exposed in the autoclave for three hours to a pressure of 900 bar and a temperature of 1000.degree. C. The TiN layer thus formed in the surface- and subsurface-zone of the component has a Vickers hardness of 800 .sub.0.05 g/sq.mm. with a thickness of 20 microns. With this economical method, an increase in surface hardness from Vickers hardness .sub.0.05 =450 with prior art methods to Vickers hardness .sub.0.05 =800 is achieved.

Abstract: A process for producing a refractory material comprising essentially beta'-SiAlON wherein initial reactants comprising Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and SiO.sub.2 are nitrided for sufficient times and temperatures to convert at least a portion of the initial reactants to at least a portion of effective reactants and the effective reactants are then further heated to produce an essentially beta'-SiAlON refractory material.

Abstract: A multilayer metal/organic polymer composite which has a formable thermoplastic polymer layer, a first metal layer adhered to the polymer layer and a second metal layer adhered to the first metal layer. The first metal layer is formed either from one metal or from an alloy of two or more metals. Suitable alloys are those which begin melting at a temperature within a range of from about 85 to 150 percent of the forming temperatures in degrees Kelvin of the polymer layer. If the first meal layer is formed from one metal, the metal is suitably, copper, silver, nickel or manganese. The second metal layer is a metal or an alloy of two or more metals that melts at a temperature which is less than that at which the first metal layer melts.

Abstract: It is known to regenerate salt baths for nitriding parts of iron and steel with polymers of organic materials, which polymers, however, could not be used in carburizing salt baths since with them there only are formed slight amounts of carburizing active cyanide, the baths foam, and carbon residues are formed. An excellent regeneration agent for carburizing salt baths is obtained by using polymeric organic compounds of the overall composition [C.sub.6 H.sub.x N.sub.y ].sub.z where x is 3 to 5, y is 5 to 8, and z is 10 to 10,000. These compounds are obtained by reacting formaldehyde with cyanamide and/or dicyandiamide and/or melamine and pyrolytically decomposing the reaction product at 300.degree. to 600.degree. C.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing by cathode sputtering a silver/copper coated article which duplicates the low reflectance colored appearance of a silver/copper coated article produced by wet chemical deposition. The method involves depositing the silver layer in a discontinuous agglomerated state.

Abstract: Window panes are provided with electrically conductive wires. At the desired small diameter of less than 50 micrometers the wires which have been used so far have too high a resistance per unit length.The invention provides a sufficiently strong, thin electrically conducting wire having an electric resistivity from 2.0-5.0 .mu..OMEGA.cm.

Abstract: A method removing water from aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solutions by contacting the solution with an organic liquid at elevated temperatures and pressures to form an organic liquid-water phase and a hydroxide solution phase and thereafter separating the organic water phase from the hydroxide solution phase.

Abstract: A steam turbine rotor shaft comprising the main body of the rotor shaft made of a high Cr steel of martensite structure, and a journal having a plurality of built-up welding layers formed successively said main body, the outer surface portion of the journal being made of steel containing 0.5 to 3 wt % of Cr, and a method of producing same.

Abstract: An infrared radiation reflecting substrate, having deposited thereon a first layer formed from a metal or an alloy, and a second layer deposited on the first layer and consisting of a solar radiation absorbing amorphous material, such as amorphous carbon. The substrate can be formed from an infrared radiation reflecting layer deposited on a primary substrate.

Abstract: A minimal corrosion resistor structure and deposition technique for superconductive circuits, with mutually protective niobium oxide passivation ring, gold corrosion barrier film and titanium resistive layer. Niobium has an intrinsic oxide of Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, which must be removed from a contact area designated by an opening in photoresist; the development process leaves a photoresist overhang. The corrosion barrier film is deposited through the opening. The resistive metal layer is deposited over the corrosion barrier film through the same opening. The gold corrosion barrier film prevents the titanium resistive metal layer from making corrosive contact with the niobium. The titanium resistive metal layer encapsulates the gold corrosion barrier film to prevent diffusion between the gold and further layers to be deposited subsequently. It would normally be possible for the titanium to spill over the gold and make corrosive intimate contact with the niobium; a self-alignment technique prevents such contact.

Abstract: There are disclosed a corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant magnetic amorphous alloy characterized by having, on the surface thereof, an oxide layer including a crystalline oxide and a method for preparing the same characterized by carrying out the oxidation treatment of the magnetic amorphous alloy at a high temperature and at a high pressure in order to form an oxide layer including a crystalline oxide on the surface of the magnetic amorphous alloy.The magnetic amorphous alloy according to this invention possesses a remarkable corrosion resistance and wear resistance and had an improved magnetic permeability in the mega-Hertz zone.

Abstract: Structure coated with graded ceramic material and methods of coating application are disclosed. Techniques for maintaining low stress to strength ratios across the depth of the coating are discussed.In one particular structure the coating is applied to a metal substrate (12) and comprises a metallic bond coat (14), a first interlayer (16) of metal/ceramic material, a second interlayer (18) of metal/ceramic material having an increased proportion of ceramic and an all ceramic layer. Modulation of the metal substrate temperature during the coating process establishes a desired residual stress pattern in the part.

Abstract: A composite article, and method for producing the same, said article being adapted for use as a semiconductor device. The composite article comprises and is produced by depositing on a first layer of metal having an irregular metal surface a second layer consisting essentially of a phosphate, silicate or a combination thereof, said second layer having a thickness sufficient to provide a smooth surface over said irregular metal surface and a third layer of a conventional semiconductor material coated on said smooth surface.