Aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use having suitable strength and excellent in heat radiating ability, formability, and work softenability, which aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use enabling formation of an integrated explosion-proof valve with little variation in operating pressure and excellent in cyclic fatigue resistance, and a method of production of the same are provided, the aluminum alloy sheet for battery lid use for forming an integrated explosion-proof valve having a component composition containing Fe: 1.05 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.15 to 0.70 mass %, Ti: 0.002 to 0.15 mass %, and B: less than 0.05 mass %, having a balance of Al and impurities, having an Fe/Mn ratio restricted to 1.8 to 7.0, restricting, as impurities, Si to less than 0.40 mass %, Cu to less than 0.03 mass %, Mg to less than 0.05 mass %, and V to less than 0.03 mass %, having a tensile strength of 95 MPa or more, having a value of elongation of 40% or more, having a recrystallized structure, having a value of (TS95-TS90) of less than −4 MPa when defining a tensile strength after cold rolling by a rolling reduction of 90% as TS90 and defining a tensile strength after cold rolling by a rolling reduction of 95% as TS95, and having a value of elongation after cold rolling by a rolling reduction of 90% of 5.0% or more. Furthermore, an average grain size of the recrystallized grains of the recrystallized structure is preferably 15 to 30

The present disclosure provides a magnesium alloy and a preparation method thereof. The magnesium alloy comprises: Al: 7.01-9.98 wt %; Zn: 0.1-1.2 wt %; Mn: 0.05-0.2 wt %; Sn: 0.3-2.5 wt %; Sm: 0.1-0.5 wt %; and a balance of Mg.

An aluminum alloy fin material for a heat exchanger in the present invention comprises an aluminum alloy having a composition containing Mn: 1.2 to 2.0%, Cu: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: 0.5 to 1.30%, Fe: 0.05 to 0.5%, and Zn: 1.0 to 3.0% by mass and a remainder comprising Al and an unavoidable impurity, further containing one or two or more of Ti: 0.01 to 0.20%, Cr: 0.01 to 0.20% and Mg: 0.01 to 0.20% by mass as desired, and, after heating in brazing, has a tensile strength of 140 MPa or more, a proof stress of 50 MPa or more, an electrical conductivity of 42% IACS or more, an average grain diameter of 150 μm or more and less than 700 μm, and a potential of −800 mV or more and −720 mV or less.

A device for fixing biological soft tissue is endowed with strength and deformation performance for being used as a device for coupling biological soft tissue that has been cut or separated due to an incision or the like during a surgical procedure, and is completely degraded in vivo and discharged after adhesion of the soft tissue or after healing of the incision tissue. The device is composed of a ternary Mg alloy material of Mg—Ca—Zn. In the Mg alloy material, the Ca and Zn are contained within the solid-solubility limit with respect to the Mg. The remainder is composed of Mg and unavoidable impurities. The Zn content is 0.5 at % or less. The Ca and Zn content has a relationship of Ca:Zn=1:x (where x is 1 to 3) by atom ratio. The crystal grain structure is equiaxed, the crystal grain size according to linear intercept being 30 to 250 μm.

A casting method of an active metal includes, in an induction melting furnace using a water-cooled crucible, tapping a molten metal into a mold from a tapping hole provided at a bottom of the water-cooled copper crucible to cast an ingot of the active metal. In conducting the casting under a casting condition in which the ingot has a diameter (D) of 10 mm or more and a ratio (H/D) of an ingot height H to the ingot diameter D of 1.5 or more and a weight of the molten metal tapped in the casting is 200 kg or less, a temperature of the molten metal in the casting is set to be higher than the melting point of the active metal and a casting velocity V (mm/sec) is controlled to satisfy V≤0.1H in relation with the ingot height H by adjusting an opening diameter of the tapping hole.

A vacuum arc remelt apparatus comprising a crucible having a wall, said wall having an interior and an exterior opposite said interior; an electrode within the crucible proximate the interior; an ingot within the crucible and below the electrode, wherein said ingot includes a crown and shelf; and a vibration source at the exterior of the crucible proximate the crown and shelf.

The specification relates to a high gamma prim nickel based superalloy, its use and a method of manufacturing of turbine engine components by welding, 3D additive manufacturing, casting and hot forming, and the superalloy comprises by wt %: from 9.0 to 10.5% Cr, from 16 to 22% Co, from 1.0 to 1.4% Mo, from 5.0 to 5.8% W, from 2.0 to 6.0% Ta, from 1.0 to 4.0% Nb provided that total content of Ta and Nb remains with a range from 3.0 to 7.0%, from 3.0 to 6.5% Al, from 0.2 to 1.5% Hf, from 0.01 to 0.2% C, from 0 to 1.0% Ge, from 0 to 1.0 wt. % Si, from 0 to 0.2 wt. % Y, from 0 to 0.015 wt. % B, from 1.5 to 3.5 wt. % Re, and nickel with impurities to balance.

A method for making an aluminum alloy includes steps of (1) weighing out starting materials to achieve a mass of material having a composition that includes aluminum, about 1.8 to about 5.6 percent by weight copper, about 0.6 to about 2.6 percent by weight lithium, and at least one of lanthanum up to about 1.5 percent by weight, strontium up to about 1.5 percent by weight, cerium up to about 1.5 percent by weight, and praseodymium up to about 1.5 percent by weight; (2) loading said starting materials into a crucible; (3) inserting said crucible into a chamber; (4) evacuating said chamber to a predetermined vacuum level; (5) melting said starting materials to form a molten mass; and (6) casting said molten mass into a mold.

A magnesium alloy sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes greater than 3 wt % and less than or equal to 5 wt % of Al, 0.5 wt % to 1.5 wt % of Zn, 0.1 wt % to 0.5 wt % of Mn, 0.001 wt % to 0.01 wt % of B, 0.1 wt % to 0.5 wt % of Y, a balance amount of magnesium, and other inevitable impurities on the basis of a total of 100 wt %.

An apparatus for producing metal bars and ingots with quality monitoring, includes at least one mold essentially constituted by a body that forms at least one cavity for forming an ingot or a bar and by at least one cover that is detachably associated with the body in order to upwardly close the cavity. The apparatus has at least one passage, provided on the body of the mold, on the cover or on both, for connecting the inside of the cavity to the outside even when the cover is associated with the body in order to upwardly close the cavity. The apparatus according to the invention also has the particularity that it includes a means for taking a sample of the melted material contained in a mold, constituted essentially by a body that forms at least one cavity for forming an ingot or a bar and by at least one cover that is detachably associated with the body in order to upwardly close the cavity. The present invention also relates to a plant and a method for producing metal bars and ingots with quality monitoring.