Wrought structural components, including drive shaft housing components for marine outboard engines are disclosed. The components have a first face, a second face substantially parallel with respect to the first face, and a sidewall. The sidewall includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall each extending from the first face to the second face. The wrought structural components are constructed of a wrought aluminum alloy and are essentially free of draft angles. The alloys may have low silicon content, low copper content, high plane strain fracture toughness, high tensile ductility, and/or a low porosity. The wrought structural components may be prepared by extrusion.

The present invention is directed to a shape memory alloy, particularly a Fe-based shape memory alloy, that is suitable for use in additive manufacturing methods, as well as methods of use and methods of altering the composition of the alloy during fabrication.

An aluminum alloy sheet excellent in terms of formability and bake hardenability is provided. The aluminum alloy sheet contains, in terms of mass %, Mg: 0.2 to 2.0%, Si: 0.3 to 2.0% and Sn: 0.005 to 0.3%, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. A differential scanning calorimetry curve of the aluminum alloy sheet has an endothermic peak in a temperature range of 150 to 230 C. and an exothermic peak in a temperature range of 240 to 255 C. The endothermic peak corresponds to a dissolution of a MgSi cluster and has a peak height of 8 W/mg or less, including 0 W/mg. The exothermic peak corresponds to a formation of a MgSi cluster and has a peak height of 20 W/mg or larger.

Ti-based metal matrix composites, methods of their additive manufacture, and parts manufactured therefrom and thereby are provided. Method include layer-by-layer additive manufacturing for fabricating Ti-based metal matrix composite parts thicker than 0.5 mm, in layers with thickness between 10-1000 micrometers. The parts formed may have one or more of the following properties: a tensile strength greater than 1 GPa, a fracture toughness greater than 40 MPa m.sup.1/2, a yield strength divided by the density greater than 200 MPa cm.sup.3/g, and a total strain to failure in a tension test greater than 5%.

A soft magnetic alloy having a good combination of formability and magnetic properties is disclosed. The alloy has the formula

Fe.sub.100-a-b-c-d-e-fSi.sub.aM.sub.bL.sub.cM.sub.dM.sub.eR.sub.f

wherein M is Cr and/or Mo; L is Co and/or Ni; M is one or more of Al, Mn, Cu, Ge, Ga; M is one or more of Ti, V, Hf, Nb, W; and R is one or more of B, Zr, Mg, P, Ce. The elements Si, M, L, M, M, and R have the following ranges in weight percent:

TABLE-US-00001 Si 4-7 M 0.1-7 L 0.1-10 M up to 7 M up to 7 R up to 1
The balance of the alloy is iron and usual impurities. A thin-gauge article made from the alloy and a method of making the thin-gauge article are also disclosed.

A sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet, the main components thereof comprising rare-earth elements R, additional elements T, iron Fe and boron B, and having a rare-earth-enriched phase and a main phase of a Nd2Fe14B crystal structure. The sum of the numerical values of the maximum magnetic energy product (BH)max in units of MGOe and the intrinsic coercive force Hcj in units of kOe is not less than 70. The manufacturing method of the sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet comprises alloy smelting, powder making, powder mixing, press forming, sintering and heat treatment procedures. By controlling the component formulation and optimizing the process conditions, the sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet is enabled to simultaneously have a high maximum magnetic energy product and a high intrinsic coercive force.

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an AlMgMn aluminium alloy plate product having a final gauge in the range of 3 mm or more, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a rolling feedstock material of an aluminium alloy having a composition comprising of Mg 3.5-5.3% and Mn 0.20-1.2%; (b) preheating and/or homogenisation; (c) hot rolling of the rolling feedstock to a rolled final gauge; (d) a first cold working operation selected from the group consisting of (i) stretching in a range of 3% to 20%, and (ii) cold rolling with a cold rolling reduction in a range of 5% to 25%; (c) annealing of the cold worked plate at a temperature in a range of 200? C. to 280? C.; (f) a second cold working operation selected from the group consisting of (i) stretching in a range of 0.4% to 3%, and (ii) cold rolling with a cold rolling reduction in a range of 0.5% to 5%.

The present invention relates to a steel plate for use in ships and the like, which has excellent toughness in a heat-affected zone (HAZ), even when a steel material having high strength and high ductility is welded with a certain amount of heat input or more, and to a method for manufacturing same.

The present disclosure provides a high-entropy alloy (HEA) with room-temperature superplasticity and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of metal materials. In the present disclosure, the HEA with room-temperature superplasticity has a chemical formula shown in Formula I: (FeCoNiCr).sub.100-xCu.sub.x (Formula I), where in Formula I, x is 2.0 to 4.0. A FeCoNiCr alloy is used as a matrix, and then added with a trace amount of a Cu element, thereby significantly reducing formation of a metastable phase in the FeCoNiCr alloy while reducing stacking fault energy of the alloy, such that the alloy maintains a desirable work hardening ability and achieves an excellent elongation at break. Moreover, a plasticity of the alloy is further improved through twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP).

The present invention discloses a manufacturing method of green compacts of rare earth alloy magnetic powder and a manufacturing method of rare earth magnet, it is a manufacturing method that pressing the rare earth alloy magnetic powder added with organic additive in a closed space filled with inert gases to manufacture the green compacts, wherein the rare earth alloy magnetic powder is compacted under magnetic field in a temperature atmosphere of 25 C.-50 C. and a relative humidity atmosphere of 10%-40%. This method is to set the temperature of the inert atmosphere in a fully closed space, inhibiting bad forming phenomenon of the magnet with low oxygen content (broken, corner-breakage, crack) after sintering, and increasing the degree of orientation, Br and (BH)max.