Abstract: A high-strength thin plate, such as for IC lead frames, of an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy which is able to withstand repeated bending and is corrosion resistance and etchable, the alloy containing 27 to 30 wt. % N:, 5 to 18 wt. % Co, 0.10 to 3.0 wt. % Mn, 0.10 wt. % or less Si, 0.010 to 0.075 wt. % C, 0.001 to 0.014 wt. % N, less than 2.0 ppm H, 0.0040 wt. % or less S, 0.004 wt. % or less P, 0.0050 wt. % or less O, 0.01 to 0.06 wt. % Cr, 0.01 to 1.0 wt. % Mo and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities wherein 63.5 wt. %.ltoreq.2Ni+Co+Mn.ltoreq.65 wt. % for Co<10 wt. % and 69.5 wt. %.ltoreq.2Ni+Co+Mn.ltoreq.74.5 wt. % for Co>10 wt. %.

Abstract: A method is provided for making a steel sheet suitable as a can material. The method includesa step for hot rolling a steel slab to a strip having a thickness of less than about 1.2 mm,a step for coiling the strip into a coil at a temperature range between about 600.degree. and 750.degree. C.,a step for pickling the coil with an acid, anda step for cold rolling the coil at a rolling reduction rate of about 50 to 90 percent, wherein the steel slab containsabout 0.0020 weight percent or less of carbon,about 0.020 weight percent or less of silicon,about 0.50 weight percent or less of manganese,about 0.020 weight percent or less of phosphorus,about 0.010 weight percent or less of sulfur,about 0.150 weight percent or less of aluminum,about 0.0050 weight percent or less of nitrogen, andthe balance iron and incidental impurities.A steel sheet suitable as a can material is also provided by this method.

Abstract: A thermomechanical method for improving the fatigue characteristics of a metallic material (for example carbon steel and low alloy steel) takes advantage of the materials' plastic flow characteristics to improve external and internal surface conditions. The material is heated to a temperature in the range of about 0.3 to 0.45 its homologous temperature, e.g., from about 200 degrees C to about the Young's Modulus Transition Temperature of said material. While the temperature of the material is in this range, force is applied to the material to produce in at least the region of said material to be treated a tensile stress level greater than the yield point of said material at the temperature, and thereby to produce limited plastic elongation in the region. The material is then cooled under stress, the stress being maintained above the instantaneous yield point of the material during at least part of the cooling process. As a result of this process, the shape of existing stress raisers (e.g.

Abstract: A method of producing a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet suitable for working uses which utilizes a steel material having the following composition: not more than 0.006 wt % of C, not more than 0.5 wt % of Si, not more than 2.0 wt % of Mn, and not less than 0.01 wt % but not more than 0.10 wt % of Ti, the Ti, C and N contents being determined to meet the condition of Ti>(48/12) C wt %+(48/14) N wt %, the steel also consisting essentially of not less than 0.0010 wt % but not more than 0.0100 wt % of Nb, not less than 0.0002 wt % but not more than 0.0020 wt % of B, not less than 0.03 wt % but not more than 0.20 wt % of P, not more than 0.03 wt % of S, not less than 0.010 wt % but not more than 0.100 wt % of Al, not more than 0.008 wt % of N, not more than 0.0045 wt % of O, and the balance substantially Fe and incidental inclusions. The steel material is cast and hot-rolled and then subjected to a cold rolling conducted at a sheet temperature not higher than 300.degree. C.

Abstract: An Fe-Ni alloy sheet for a shadow mask, which consists essentially of:nickel: from 34 to 38 wt. %,silicon: from 0.01 to 0.15 wt. %,manganese: from 0.01 to 1.00 wt. %, andthe balance being iron and incidental impurities.The surface portion of the alloy sheet has a silicon (Si) segregation rate, as expressed by the following formula, of up to 10%: ##EQU1## and a center-line mean roughness (Ra) of the alloy sheet satisfies the following formula:0.3 .mu.m<.ltoreq.Ra .ltoreq.0.7 .mu.m.The above-mentioned Fe-Ni alloy sheet is manufactured by preparing an Fe-Ni alloy sheet having the chemical composition and the silicon segregation rate as described above, and imparting a center-line mean roughness (Ra) which satisfies the above-mentioned formula onto the both surfaces of the alloy sheet by means of a pair of dull rolls during the final rolling of the alloy sheet for said preparation.

Abstract: Leaders are attached to opposite ends of a titanium foil or thin strip element and are partially coiled on respective reels spaced at opposite sides of a cluster rolling mill to transfer the titanium element back and forth between the reels to move the element between pressure rolls of the mill a plurality of times and under forward and back tension in air at room temperature to initially reduce the element thickness enough to permit the element to be coiled on the reels and then to partially coil the element on the reels to further reduce element thickness. Iron aluminide material is interleaved with a loose coil of the element and the element is heated in a protective atmosphere to stress relieve and partially recrystallize the element material between the reductions in thickness.