Disclosed are novel processes to increase productivity on a continuous anneal and solution heat treatment line for heat-treatable automotive aluminum sheet products with high T4 and after-paint bake strengths and reduced roping. As a non-limiting example, the processes described herein can be used in the automotive industry. The disclosed heat treatable alloys and processes also may be applicable to the marine, aerospace, and transportation industries.

The present invention relates to a turbine engine part including a titanium-based alloy presenting a high level of work hardening, a high breaking load, and good ductility.

A system for auditing performance data in commercial venues having one or more computing devices located in venues where live or pre-recorded music is performed. The computing devices capture and store content in each venue using at least one audio input configured for professional audio performances. The computing devices store the content as a content data record with associated identifiers for date, time, and venue location. The content data records are transferred from each venue to a central server. Encryption keys encrypt the content data records from each venue to verify the authenticity of the content transmitted from the venues to the server. The server includes a processor for opening, reviewing, and separating the content data records from each venue into distinct files, each file comprising an individual work performed in the venue. The system further includes an interface for providing access to the archived content data records at the server.

A Ni-based alloy tube includes a base metal having a chemical composition consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.15% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 10.0 to 40.0%, Ni: 50.0 to 80.0%, Ti: 0.50% or less, Cu: 0.60% or less, Al: 0.20% or less, N: 0.20% or less, and the balance: Fe and impurities; and a low Cr content complex oxide film having a thickness of 25 nm or smaller at least on an inner surface of the base metal, wherein contents of Al, Ni, Si, Ti, and Cr in the film satisfy [at % Al/at % Cr≦2.00], [at % Ni/at % Cr≦1.40], and [(at % Si+at % Ti)/at % Cr≧0.10].

High quality titanium ingot is produced by using recovered titanium scrap as a raw material and adding additives. Scrap, each having individual information of identification and process profile information, is passed through automatic reading means to obtain the information and to store it in a data server. A calculating means calculates a combination of the scrap, titanium sponge and additives and feed rate of each of them so as to satisfy chemical composition and producing rate of a target ingot product using the individual identification pieces of information stored in the data server, during a beginning step of the ingot production, and transmits electrical signals corresponding to calculated results of the combination and the feed rates from the calculating means to a feed rate controlling means of each feed means of the titanium scrap, titanium sponge, and additives and then starting supply of them, and detecting means equipped at an extracting part of the ingot product reads actual producing rate of the ingot product, after the beginning step of the ingot production. The calculating means controls feed rate of the titanium scrap, titanium sponge, and/or additives based on the actual producing rate.

The invention relates to an ingot consisting of an aluminium solder alloy having in percentage by weight 4.5%≦Si≦12%; and optionally one or more of the following alloying constituents in percentage by weight: Ti≦0.2%, Fe≦0.8%, Cu≦0.3%, Mn≦0.10%, Mg≦2.0%, Zn_23 0.20%, Cr≦0.05%, with the remainder aluminium and unavoidable impurities, individually at most 0.05 wt %, in total at most 0.15 wt %, wherein boron is additionally provided as an alloying constituent, wherein the boron content is at least 100 ppm and the aluminium alloy is free from primary Si particles having a size of more than 20 μm. The invention further relates to an aluminium alloy product consisting of an aluminium alloy, to an ingot consisting of an aluminium alloy and to a method for producing an aluminium alloy.

Provided is a hot-forged 6xxx-series aluminum alloy having excellent corrosion resistance and still having both high strength and good ductility. A forged 6xxx-series aluminum alloy having a specific chemical composition after solution treatment is further subjected to warm working to introduce dislocations into the forged aluminum alloy microstructure. This allows the forged aluminum alloy after artificial aging to have a microstructure which has a high dislocation density, includes a large proportion of small angle grain boundaries, and has a high average number density of precipitates. Thus, the resulting forged aluminum alloy has a 0.2% yield strength of 400 MPa or more and an elongation of 10% or more and combines properties necessary for suspension parts.

In production of a reactive metal using a melting furnace for producing metal having a hearth, ingots can be efficiently produced by efficiently cooling the ingots extracted from the mold provided in the melting furnace. In addition, an apparatus structure in which multiple ingots can be produced with high efficiency and high quality from one hearth, is provided. A melting furnace for producing metal is provided, the furnace has a hearth for having molten metal formed by melting raw material, a mold in which the molten metal is poured, an extracting jig which is provided below the mold for extracting ingot cooled and solidified downwardly, a cooling member for cooling the ingot extracted downwardly of the mold, and an outer case for keeping the hearth, the mold, the extracting jig, and the cooling member separated from the air, wherein at least one mold and extracting jig are provided in the outer case, and the cooling member is provided between the outer case and the ingot, or between the multiple ingots.

A hydrogen storing alloy containing only a few impurities leading to a short circuit where the yield can be maintained even when the alloy is subjected to magnetic separation treatment. A hydrogen storing alloy includes a matrix phase having an AB5 type crystal structure, the alloy having a misch metal (referred to as “Mm”) in an A-site in an ABx composition and having any one or at least one of Ni, Al, Mn, and Co in a B-site in the ABx composition, wherein the ratio (referred to as “ABx”) of the total number of moles of elements comprising the B site to the total number of moles of elements comprising the A site is 5.00<ABx≦5.40; the content of Co is more than 0.0 mol % and less than 0.7 mol %; and residual magnetization is more than 0 emu/g and 0.020 emu/g or less.

The present invention relates to aluminum alloy products that can be riveted and possess excellent ductility and toughness properties. The present invention also relates to a method of producing the aluminum alloy products. In particular, these products have application in the automotive industry.