Disclosed herein are embodiments of mechanically alloyed powder feedstock and methods for spheroidizing them using microwave plasma processing. The spheroidized powder can be used in metal injection molding processes, hot isostatic processing, and additive manufacturing. In some embodiments, mechanical milling, such as ball milling, can be used to prepare high entropy alloys for microwave plasma processing.

Provided is a permanent magnet including a rare-earth element R, a transition metal element T, B, Zr, and Cu. The permanent magnet contains main phase grains including Nd, T, and B, and grain boundary multiple junctions, the grain boundary multiple junction is a grain boundary surrounded by three or more of the main phase grains, one of the grain boundary multiple junctions contains a ZrB.sub.2 crystal and an R—Cu-rich phase, a concentration of B in the grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB.sub.2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is from 5 to 20 atomic %, a concentration of Cu in the grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB.sub.2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is from 5 to 25 atomic %, and a surface layer part of the main phase grain includes at least one kind of heavy rare-earth element among Tb and Dy.

Provided is a hard particle in which Cr and W, that are quickly diffused in Mo, are present at the same time as Ni and Mn. Specifically, the hard particle contains Cr: 5% by mass to 20% by mass, W: 2% by mass to 19% by mass, Mo: 25% by mass to 40% by mass, Ni: 10% by mass to 22% by mass, Mn: 10% by mass or less, C: 2.0% by mass or less, Si: 2.0% by mass or less, and a remainder: Fe and unavoidable impurities.

The invention provides an iron-based metallic glass alloy powder including: Fe as the main component; a metalloid element group including Si, B, and C; a small amount of Mo to improve the degree-of-supercooling; and the addition of Cr and Ni to increase corrosion resistance, where the total amount of the metalloid element group, the amount of the degree-of-supercooling improvement element and the total amount of the elements to increase corrosion resistance are set within predetermined ranges.

Metallic alloys and methods for the preparation of free-standing metallic materials in a layerwise manner. The resulting layerwise construction provides a metallic skeleton of selected porosity which may be infiltrated with a second metal to provide a free-standing material that has a volume loss of less than or equal to 130 mm.sup.3 as measured according to ASTM G65-04 (2010).

A soft magnetic alloy including an internal area having a soft magnetic type alloy composition including Fe and Co, a Co concentrated area existing closer to a surface side than the internal area and having a higher Co concentration than in the internal area, and a SB concentrated area existing closer to the surface side than the Co concentrated area and having a higher concentration of at least one element selected from Si and B than in the internal area.

A soft magnetic metal powder or the like from which a soft magnetic metal fired body can be provided has a high magnetic permeability μ and a specific resistance ρ and is contained in a coil-type electronic component having sufficiently high inductance L and Q value and unlikely to be plating-extended and short-circuited. A soft magnetic metal powder contains soft magnetic metal particles containing at least Fe and Ni. Said soft magnetic metal powder further contains P, Si, Cr and/or M. M is at least one selected from among B, Co, Mn, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Al, and rare earth elements. The content of each element is within a predetermined range.

A soft magnetic metal powder or the like from which a soft magnetic metal fired body can be provided has a high magnetic permeability μ and a specific resistance ρ and is contained in a coil-type electronic component having sufficiently high inductance L and Q value and unlikely to be plating-extended and short-circuited. A soft magnetic metal powder contains soft magnetic metal particles containing at least Fe and Ni. Said soft magnetic metal powder further contains P, Si, Cr and/or M. M is at least one selected from among B, Co, Mn, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Al, and rare earth elements. The content of each element is within a predetermined range.

A process for manufacturing an additively-manufactured part from a metal powder having a composition having the following elements, expressed in content by weight: 6%≤Ni≤14%, 5%≤Cr≤10%, 0.5%≤Si≤2.5%, 0.5%≤Ti≤2%, C≤0.04% and optionally containing 0.5%≤Cu≤2%, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities resulting from the elaboration, the metal powder having a microstructure including in area fraction more than 98% of a body-centered cubic crystalline phase, the process having a step during which at least a part of the metal powder is melted in an atmosphere substantially composed of an inert gas other than Argon or of a combination of inert gases other than Argon.

The present invention relates to a procedure for finishing stainless steel parts. The finishing process of the invention is particularly useful for stainless steel parts of complex structure such as those produced by additive manufacturing of metals.