A centrifugally cast, hot-rolling composite roll comprising an outer layer formed by a centrifugal casting method, and an inner layer made of ductile cast iron and integrally fused to the outer layer; the outer layer having a chemical composition comprising by mass 1-3% of C, 0.4-3% of Si, 0.3-3% of Mn, 1-5% of Ni, 2-7% of Cr, 3-8% of Mo, 3-7% of V, and 0.01-0.12% of B, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and meeting the relation expressed by Cr/(Mo+0.5W)<−2/3[C−0.2(V+1.19Nb)]+11/6, wherein W=0, and Nb=0, when W and Nb are not contained; and containing by area 1-15% of MC carbide, 0.5-20% of carboboride, and 0.5-20% of Mo-based carbide.

A cutting element for use in a drilling bit and/or a milling bit having a cutter body made of a substrate having an upper surface, and a superabrasive layer overlying the upper surface of the substrate. The cutting element further includes a sleeve extending around a portion of a side surface of the superabrasive layer and a side surface of the substrate, wherein the sleeve exerts a radially compressive force on the superabrasive layer.

Polycrystalline diamond bodies having an annular region of diamond grains and a core region of diamond grains and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a polycrystalline diamond body includes an annular region of inter-bonded diamond grains having a first characteristic property and a core region of inter-bonded diamond grains bonded to the annular region and having a second characteristic property that differs from the first characteristic property. The annular region decreases in thickness from a perimeter surface of the polycrystalline diamond body towards a centerline axis.

The invention relates to a PCD composite compact element comprising a PCD structure integrally bonded at an interface to a cemented carbide substrate; the PCD structure comprising coherently bonded diamond grains having a mean size no greater than 15 microns; the cemented carbide substrate comprising carbide particles dispersed in a metallic binder, the carbide particles comprising a carbide compound of a metal; wherein the ratio of the amount of metallic binder to the amount of the metal at points in the substrate deviates from a mean value by at most 20 percent of the mean value. The invention further relates to a method for making a PDC compact element comprising a PCD structure integrally bonded to a substrate formed of cemented carbide; the method including introducing a source of excess carbon to the substrate at a bonding surface of the substrate to form a carburised substrate; contacting an aggregated mass of diamond grains with the carburised substrate; and sintering the diamond grains in the presence of a solvent/catalyst material for diamond; wherein the mean size of the diamond grains in the aggregated mass is no greater than 30 microns.

A polycrystalline diamond sintered material tool includes: a cemented carbide substrate, which is mainly composed of WC and includes Co; and a diamond layer containing a metal catalyst made of Co provided on the cemented carbide substrate. The average layer thickness of a Co rich layer formed in an interface between the cemented carbide substrate and the diamond layer is 30 μm or less. C.sub.MAX/C.sub.DIA is 2 or less when C.sub.DIA is an average content of Co included in the diamond layer and C.sub.MAX is a peak value of a Co content in the Co rich layer. D/D.sub.O is less than 2 when D is an average grain size of WC particles in a region from the interface between the cemented carbide substrate and the diamond layer to 50 μm toward an inside of the cemented carbide substrate; and D.sub.O is an average grain size of WC particles.

The invention relates to an electrode material, preferably an inert anode material comprising at least a metal core and a cermet material, characterized in that: said metal core contains at least one nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe) alloy, said cermet material comprises at least as percentages by weight: 45 to 80% of a nickel ferrite oxide phase (2) of composition Ni.sub.xFe.sub.yM.sub.zO.sub.4 with 0.60 ≤x≤0.90; 1.90≤y≤2.40; 0.00≤z≤0.20 and M being a metal selected from aluminum (Al), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), tin (Sn), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta) and hafnium (Hf) or being a combination of these metals, 15 to 45% of a metallic phase (1) comprising at least one alloy of nickel and copper.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a groove formed on a surface and a solidified alloy layer formed under the groove, wherein the solidified alloy layer includes particles of a certain average diameter.

A palladium-coated copper bonding wire includes: a core material containing copper as a main component; and a palladium layer on the core material, in which a concentration of palladium relative to the entire wire is 1.0 mass % or more and 4.0 mass % or less, and a work hardening coefficient in an amount of change of an elongation rate 2% or more and a maximum elongation rate εmax % or less of the wire, is 0.20 or less.

The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an annealing separator component for an oriented electrical steel sheet, an oriented electrical steel sheet, and a manufacturing method thereof. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an annealing separator composition for an oriented electrical steel sheet, includes: 100 weight parts of at least one of magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide; and 5 to 200 weight parts of aluminum hydroxide.

The invention relates to a method for producing a component from a medium-manganese flat steel product with 4 to 12 wt % Mn, preferably more than 5 to less than 10 wt % Mn, and with TRIP/TWIP effect. In order to improve the degrees of deformation of the shaped component while at the same time reducing the forming forces, the invention proposes shaping the flat steel product into a component in a first shaping step at a temperature of the flat steel product of 60° C. to below Ac3, preferably from 60° C. to 450° C. The invention also relates to a component produced according to said method and to a use for said components.