Steel sheet for cans high in strength and excellent in formability and appearance comprising C: 0.0010 to 0.0035%, Si: 0.050% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 0.50%, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.040% or less, Al: less than 0.005%, N: 0.0050% or less and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein an average value of a ratio of length of crystal grains in a sheet thickness direction to length in a sheet width direction is 0.70 or more, a yield strength is 500 MPa or more, and, in a range of 0 to 90 of the rolling direction, a minimum value of an r-value is 1.50 or more, an average value of the r-value is 1.70 or more, and a difference of the maximum value and minimum value of the r-value is 0.50 or less.

A steel sheet for a container includes: a steel sheet; a coated layer containing Ni provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet; and a chemical treatment layer as an upper layer of the coated layer, and containing a Zr compound in an amount of 3.0 to 30.0 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Zr metal, and a Mg compound in an amount of 0.50 to 5.00 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Mg metal, in which the coated layer is one of: a Ni coated layer which contains Ni in amount of 10 to 1000 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Ni metal, and a composite coated layer which contains Ni in an amount of 5 to 150 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Ni metal and Sn in an amount of 300 to 3000 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Sn metal, and has an island-shaped Sn coated layer formed on an FeNiSn alloy layer.

A steel sheet for a container includes a steel sheet, a Sn coated layer which is provided as an upper layer of the steel sheet and contains Sn in an amount of 560 to 5600 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Sn metal, and a chemical treatment layer which is provided as an upper layer of the Sn coated layer and contains a Zr compound in an amount of 3.0 to 30.0 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Zr metal and a Mg compound in an amount of 0.50 to 5.00 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of Mg metal.

A slide member is provided with a base material and a slide layer. The slide layer is disposed on at least a portion of the base material. The slide layer contains a solid lubricant and a plurality of hard particles, the hard particles being harder than the solid lubricant.

The present invention relates to an intermediate product for joining and coating by brazing comprising a base metal and a blend of boron and silicon, said base metal having a solidus temperature above 1040 C., and the intermediate product has at least partly a surface layer of the blend on the base metal, wherein the boron in the blend is selected from a boron source, and the silicon in the blend is selected from a silicon source, and wherein the blend comprises boron and silicon in a ratio of boron to silicon within a range from about 3:100 wt/wt to about 100:3 wt/wt. The present invention relates also to a stacked intermediate product, to an assembled intermediate product, to a method of brazing, to a brazed product, to a use of an intermediate product, to a pre-brazed product, to a blend and to paint.

A multiple layer metallic laminate including a metallic layer of high heat dispersion characteristics and a thermal barrier material interlaid within the metallic layer. The laminate can include multiple metallic layers having either high heat dispersion characteristics or lesser heat dispersion characteristics. The thermal barrier material can separate portions of the high heat dispersion metallic layers from one another to minimize heat dispersion into isolated portions.

Methods of enhancing the corrosion resistance of an oxidizable material exposed to a supercritical fluid is disclosed One method includes placing a surface layer on an oxidizable material, and choosing a buffered supercritical fluid containing a reducing agent with the composition of the buffered supercritical fluid containing the reducing agent chosen to avoid the corrosion of the surface layer or reduce the rate of corrosion of the surface layer and avoid the corrosion of the oxidizable material or reduce the rate of corrosion of the oxidizable material at a temperature above the supercritical temperature and supercritical pressure of the supercritical fluid.

The present invention relates to composition comprising a blend of at least one boron source and at least one silicon source, and the composition further comprises particles selected from particles having wear resistance properties, particles having surface enhancing properties, particles having catalytic properties or combinations thereof, wherein the blend comprises boron and silicon in a weight ratio boron to silicon within a range from about 3:100 wt:wt to about 100:3 wt:wt, wherein silicon and boron are present in the blend in at least 25 wt %, and wherein the at least one boron source and the at least one silicon source are oxygen free except for inevitable amounts of contaminating oxygen, and wherein the blend is a mechanical blend of particles in and the particles have an average particle size less than 250 m. The present invention relates further to a method for providing a coated product and a coated product obtained by the method.

An intermediate shell for a motor vehicle door, in particular a side door of a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The intermediate shell is produced at least in regions from a light metal blank by massive forming, preferably by forging.

A pin comprising a conical body having a central axis and a cross-sectional area that decreases with distance from a first end to a second end. A coating applied to the conical body has a melting temperature that is lower than a melting temperature of the conical body. The coating melting temperature is lower than a friction temperature and the body melting temperature is higher than the friction temperature. The friction temperature is achieved at an interface of the pin and a component when the pin is forcibly positioned into the component to repair a defect. The coating comprises a material having a first tensile strength value of a bond formed between the conical body and the component in response to softening and rehardening of the coating.