Abstract: Cast steel has the composition (% by mass)______________________________________ carbon 1.6-3.0 silicon 1.2-1.6 manganese 11.0-15.0 chromium 9.0-10.8 cerium 0.001-0.2 vanadium 0.15-0.3 titanium 0.05-0.3 aluminium 0.05-0.15 boron 0.005-0.015 iron the balance. ______________________________________The steel according to the present invention is intended for the manufacture of articles, operating under conditions of an intensive shock-abrasive wear and high contact loads of a shock character.

Abstract: A dopant material, comprising metallic elements constituting alloy base metals and endogeneous high-melting-point compounds selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, tantalum, hafnium and thorium nitrides, carbides, carbonitrides, borides and oxides.The dopant material for iron- or nickel-base alloys is produced by melting a dopant base metal, whereupon the elements required for the formation of the high-melting-point compounds selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, tantalum, hafnium, thorium nitrides, carbides, carbonitrides, borides and oxides, are taken in a stoichiometric ratio and introduced into the melt. These elements are introduced into the melt at a temperature exceeding that required for the formation therein of such compounds. After that the melt with the elements introduced therein is cooled at a rate of 10.sup.2 -10.sup.7 degrees per second until high-melting-point endogeneous dispersed compounds are formed in the solidified base metal.