An alloy consisting of titanium, zirconium, cobalt, and nickel, and its fabrication.

An alloy consisting of titanium, zirconium, cobalt, and nickel, and its fabrication.

Method for reducing unevenness in a strip subjected to cooling by spraying of liquid, or a mixture of gas and liquid, along a cooling zone of a continuous heat treatment one, the cooling intensity being adjusted in the direction of travel of the strip so as to achieve a relative position between the Leidenfrost temperature and at least one temperature at which the metallurgical structure changes such that said cooling intensity minimizes the internal stresses of the strip, and device for implementing the method.

An electrical device includes an electromagnetic component configured to generate a magnetic flux. The electromagnetic component includes a soft magnetically-conductive material configured to pass magnetic flux therethrough along a flux path. The soft magnetically-conductive material includes at least one grain oriented portion having metal grains that are oriented parallel with respect to the magnetic flux.

The invention relates to a method for producing a chassis part from micro-alloyed steel, having an improved cold workability of cold-solidified, mechanically separated sheet-metal edges, comprising the following method steps: providing a hot-rolled strip or a hot-rolled strip sheet of the claimed alloy composition in weight percent, cutting a blank at room temperature and optionally carrying out further punching or cutting operations, heating exclusively the sheet metal edge regions of the blank, which have been cold-solidified by the cutting or punching operations, to a temperature of at least 700 C. with a dwell time of at most 10 seconds and subsequent cooling with air, cold forming the blank in one or more steps to form a chassis part at room temperature.

Provided are a ferritic stainless steel for automotive exhaust systems with improved heat resistance and condensate corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same. The ferritic stainless steel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a stainless steel base material comprising, in % by weight, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.5 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% or less, P: 0.035% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 11 to 18%, N: 0.013% or less, Ti: 0.15 to 0.5%, Sn: 0.03 to 0.5%, and the remainder of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and an Al-plated layer formed on the stainless steel base material, wherein the ferritic stainless steel comprises a plating compound comprising (Al.sub.19FeMnSi.sub.2).sub.5,31 (Aluminum Iron Manganese Silicide) at an interface between the stainless steel base material and the Al-plated layer.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a high-strength steel, having excellent fracture initiation resistance and fracture propagation arrestability at low temperature.

Workpieces are disposed between a pair of side walls in a heat treatment chamber. A centrifugal fan is disposed to face the workpieces inside the heat treatment chamber, and sucks gas from the workpiece side and generates air current. In regions at the respective side wall sides relative to an intermediate position between the pair of side walls, an air current regulation unit regulates the air current so as to restrict flows of the air current from the centrifugal fan to the respective side wall sides when a rotary blade of the centrifugal fan rotates in regions in which outer circumferential edge portions of the rotating rotary blade separate from the respective side walls, and allows the flows in regions in which the outer circumferential edge portions of the rotating rotary blade approach the respective side walls.

A heater is provided to heat a metallic workpiece as a heating treatment target. In a heat treatment chamber, the heater and the workpiece are disposed. A shielding member is disposed between the heater and the workpiece inside the heat treatment chamber, and provided to be capable of shielding radiation of radiation heat from the heater to the workpiece.

A flywheel energy storage system incorporates various embodiments in design and processing to achieve a very high ratio of energy stored per unit cost. The system uses a high-strength steel rotor rotating in a vacuum envelope. The rotor has a geometry that ensures high yield strength throughout its cross-section using various low-cost quenched and tempered alloy steels. Low-cost is also achieved by forging the rotor in a single piece with integral shafts. A high energy density is achieved with adequate safety margins through a pre-conditioning treatment. The bearing and suspension system utilizes an electromagnet that off-loads the rotor allowing for the use of low-cost, conventional rolling contact bearings over an operating lifetime of several years.