Provided is a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet to be used for home appliances, vehicles, and the like, and having excellent surface appearance and low-temperature bonding brittleness. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet; and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on the base steel sheet. A surface of the base steel sheet has a centerline average roughness (Ra) of 0.3 or more, a roughness skewness (Rsk) of −1 or less, and a roughness kurtosis (Rku) of 6 or more.

A wire material for a canted coil spring includes a core wire composed of a steel having a pearlite structure, a copper plating layer covering the outer peripheral surface of the core wire, the copper plating layer being composed of copper or a copper alloy, and a hard layer disposed adjacent to the outer periphery of the copper plating layer, the hard layer having a higher hardness than the copper plating layer. The steel constituting the core wire contains 0.5% or more by mass and 1.0% or less by mass carbon, 0.1% or more by mass and 2.5% or less by mass silicon, and 0.3% or more by mass and 0.9% or less by mass manganese, the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities.

Provided is a steel sheet for a hot press formed member having excellent painting adhesion and post-painting corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same. A steel sheet for hot press forming according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a base steel sheet and a plated layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the ratio of an area occupied by pores to the entire area of a surface layer portion may be 10% or more in a cross section of the surface layer portion observed when the plated layer is cut in a thickness direction thereof.

A coating system for a surface of a superalloy component is provided. The coating system includes a MCrAlY coating on the surface of the superalloy component, where M is Ni, Fe, Co, or a combination thereof. The MCrAlY coating generally has a higher chromium content than the superalloy component. The MCrAlY coating also includes a platinum-group metal aluminide diffusion layer. The MCrAlY coating includes Re, Ta, or a mixture thereof. Methods are also provided for forming a coating system on a surface of a superalloy component.

Provided are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent delayed fracture resistance by reducing the diffusible hydrogen content in the steel and a method for producing the same. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a prescribed composition and a microstructure including martensite and tempered martensite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the tempered martensite being 30% or more, and a galvanizing layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet. The diffusible hydrogen content in the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 0.50 wt. ppm or less. The half-width of the hydrogen release peak of the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 70° C. or less. The diffusible hydrogen content and the half-width of the hydrogen release peak are determined by a prescribed analysis method.

A hot dip galvanized steel sheet and hot dip galvannealed steel sheet improved in uniform ductility and local ductility, yield strength and tensile strength, and low temperature impact property, characterized by having a predetermined chemical composition, having a metal structure containing, by volume %, retained austenite: over 5.0% and tempered martensite: over 5.0%, having retained austenite containing C: 0.85 mass % or more, and having a ratio [C].sub.γgb/[P].sub.γgb of an amount of segregation of C (number of atoms/nm.sup.2): [C].sub.γgb to an amount of segregation of P (number of atoms/nm.sup.2): [P].sub.γgb at prior austenite grain boundaries of 4.0 or more.

Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having excellent plating adhesion, having a plated layer with improved friction characteristics by means of a predetermined level of Fe elution, and having excellent corrosion resistance; and a manufacturing method therefor.

The method manufactures a hermetic sealing lid member used for an electronic component housing package including an electronic component arrangement member on which an electronic component is arranged. The method includes forming a clad material in which a silver brazing layer that contains Ag and Cu and a first Fe layer arranged on the silver brazing layer and made of Fe or an Fe alloy are bonded to each other by roll-bonding a silver brazing plate that contains Ag and Cu and a first Fe plate made of Fe or an Fe alloy to each other and performing first heat treatment for diffusion annealing; softening the clad material by performing second heat treatment; and forming the hermetic sealing lid member in a box shape including a recess portion by bending the softened clad material.

A steel strip having a metal coating on at least one surface of the strip is disclosed. The strip is characterised in that the coating includes aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy that contains magnesium and the coating has small size spangles.

Provided is a plated steel sheet having an excellent quality with fine and even plating texture, the plated steel sheet including a base steel sheet and a Zn plating layer formed on the base steel sheet, wherein a Zn crystal in the plating layer has a size of 5 μm or less.