This vehicle body structure includes a frame member with a first top section, a corner section, a vertical wall section, and a second top section, and a first support section and a second support section provided at the second top section. L/h≤6.7 is satisfied where the h represents a length between an outer surface of the first top section and an outer surface of the second top section, and the L represents a length between the first support section and the second support section.

A method for setting different cooling rates of metal strips or metal plates (rolling material) over the strip width of a cooling stretch in a hot-strip mill or heavy-plate mill is presented. According to the method, for the calculation of the cooling rate, the initial enthalpy distribution over the material width of the rolling material before the cooling is determined. Proceeding therefrom, a target enthalpy distribution is determined in the width direction and length direction of the rolling material while taking into account a calculation of the flatness and the mechanical properties by means of a microstructure model. Subsequently, the coolant amount and the coolant curve of the cooling stretch are set.

A hot-stamping formed body has a predetermined chemical composition and a microstructure including, by area ratio, 90% to 100% of martensite and 0% to 10% of a remainder in the microstructure. In the microstructure, a region in which an average GAIQ value in a unit grain is 60,000 or more is 30 area % or more, and a number density of carbides having a circle equivalent diameter of 0.20 μm or more is 50/mm.sup.2 or less.

A tempering station for the partial heat treatment of a metal component, which includes an apparatus for the heat treatment of a metal component, and the use of at least one tangential nozzle in a tempering station for the partial heat treatment of a metal component. The tempering station for partial heat treatment of the metallic component comprises a processing plane disposed in the tempering station, the component being able to be disposed in said plane, and at least one nozzle which points to the processing plane and is provided and adapted for discharging a fluid stream for cooling at least a first sub-area of the component, wherein the at least one nozzle is a tangential nozzle. The tempering station and the apparatus make it possible in particular to adjust, as reliably and/or precisely as possible, a transition region between the different heat-treated sub-areas of the component, in particular to keep said region as small as possible.

To provide a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that can achieve both sufficiently low transformer core loss and sufficiently low noise. Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a tension coating on a surface thereof and subjected to magnetic domain refining treatment by generating linear closure domains extending in a direction within 30° of a transverse direction, in which an average interval L between adjacent closure domains is 15 mm or less, a depth ratio r.sub.d of a depth of the closure domains to a sheet thickness, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 35% or more, and a volume fraction r.sub.v of the closure domains, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 0.30% or more and 3.0% or less, and an area ratio r.sub.s of the closure domains, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 0.50% or more and 4.0% or less.

Apparatus for the thermal treatment of a component, which can be arranged in a component plane (E) in the apparatus, which component plane is spanned by a first direction (x) and a second direction (y) perpendicular to the first direction, the apparatus comprising a heating portion having a heating means for heating a first region of the component, a cooling portion having a cooling means for cooling a second region of the component; wherein the cooling portion is downstream of the heating portion in the second direction (y); wherein the cooling means has a nozzle for discharging a cooling fluid onto the component; wherein the nozzle is oriented such that it drops in the second direction (y); and wherein the nozzle has a fluid channel having a nozzle opening. By means such apparatus, components can be thermally treated individually in different regions.

A railway wheel having, in mass %, C: 0.80 to 1.15%, Si: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 1.25%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.025 to 0.650%, N: 0.0030 to 0.0200%, Cr: 0 to 0.60%, and V: 0 to 0.12%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The railway wheel has a hub part, a rim part including a tread and a flange, and a web part disposed between the hub part and the rim part. The area fraction of pearlite in the hub, web, and rim parts is 95% or more, and the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite is not more than 1.0 pieces/100 μm. The amount of pro-eutectoid cementite is calculated as (pieces/100 μm)=a total sum of the number of pieces of pro-eutectoid cementite which intersect with two diagonal lines in a square visual field of 200 μm×200 μm/(5.66×100 μm).

A track link includes an elongate link body formed of a link body material that varies in hardness to form a first lower hardness zone, a second lower hardness zone, and a higher hardness zone. The higher hardness zone includes an upper rail surface of the elongate link body and extends substantially throughout the elongate link body outside of the first and second lower hardness zones, which surround the track pin bores. Related methodology for making a track link is also disclosed.

A laser shock strengthening method for small-hole components (4) with different thicknesses. In the method, different technological parameters are used for laser shock strengthening of the small-hole components (4) with different thicknesses, statistical analysis is conducted after a large number of tests to obtain an empirical formula; the empirical formula is a relational expression AA of the power density and the thicknesses of the small-hole component (4). The power density of laser shock strengthening of the small-hole components (4) with different thicknesses can be determined according to the relational expression; and a method for selecting and determining related technological parameters is provided. According to the method, after the small-hole components (4) with different thicknesses are subjected to laser shock strengthening by using a proper technology, reasonable residual compressive stress distribution can be obtained, a good strengthening effect can be achieved, effective shock quality control can be conducted on the components, and workpiece deformation is controlled while guaranteeing the fatigue life of the small-hole components (4).

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the targeted heat treatment of specific component zones of a steel component. A predominantly austenitic structure can be created in the steel component in one or more first regions, from which, by quenching, a majority martensitic microstructure can be created; and in one or more second regions, a majority bainitic microstructure can be created, wherein the steel component is initially heated in a furnace to a temperature above the AC3 temperature, the steel component is subsequently transferred into a treatment station, and can cool down during the transfer, and in the treatment station, the one or more second regions of the steel component are cooled down to a cooling finish temperature ϑ.sub.2 during a treatment time.