Provided is a method for filling a stem-side hollow area of an engine valve with metallic sodium. The method includes injecting melted metallic sodium into a cylinder having a larger diameter than an inner diameter of the hollow area of the engine valve, forming a solidified metallic sodium rod having a substantially uniform structure in the cylinder, inserting the metallic sodium into the hollow area of the engine valve through a nozzle having a small diameter, and sealing the engine valve.

A disc brake rotor for a vehicle is provided. The disc brake rotor includes a hat and a friction ring extending circumferentially from the hat. The disc brake rotor is formed of a cast hypereutectic aluminum alloy. The hypereutectic aluminum alloy includes: 14.00 to 25.00 wt. % of silicon; 4.90 to 8.00 wt. % of copper; 0.05 to 0.90 wt. % of nickel; 0.50 to 1.50 wt. % of magnesium; 0.05 to 1.20 wt. % of iron; 0.05 to 1.00 wt. % of manganese; 0.05 to 1.00 wt. % of zinc; 0.05 to 1.20 wt. % of titanium; 0.05 to 1.20 wt. % of zirconium; 0.05 to 1.20 wt. % of vanadium; 0.001 to 0.10 wt. % of phosphorous; and the balance aluminum. The alloy may also include other trace elements such as chromium, lead, and tin in an amount not exceeding 0.20 wt. %. The disc brake rotor may be formed by a high pressure, semi-solid die casting process including rheocasting.

An excellent cast and forged product that is superior in mechanical properties and has a microstructure and which may not only be a thin but also be a thick product can be made without using complicated process steps or equipment. A semisolid casting and forging method is provided in which a metal melt is teemed so that it is supercooled into a lower die in a press so controlled that the metal melt has a rate of solidification as desired, thereby preparing a semisolid slurry; an upper die is brought into contact with the semisolid slurry; and thereafter at least one of the upper and lower dies is moved relatively towards the other at a rate of movement between 0.1 and 1.5 m/sec, thereby compressing the semisolid slurry to mold it into a product. The semisolid slurry preferably has crystal grains of a grain size of 50 m or less.

A titanium alloy that includes about 5 to about 33 percent by weight copper, about 1 to about 8 percent by weight iron, and titanium.

A titanium alloy that includes about 5 to about 27 percent by weight cobalt and titanium.

The present invention is a casting machine for casting parts in a mold out of a metal using a metal feedstock. The machine feeds solid metal feedstock into a processing cylinder formed in a thermally conductive block and a heater elevates the temperature of the feedstock as it passes along the said processing cylinder first and second ends, the first end of the processing cylinder being configured to receive. The feedstock becomes more liquid and is transferred to an injector cylinder formed in the thermally conductive block adjacent the processing cylinder. The injector cylinder has a shooting pot coupled to the second end of the processing cylinder by a passage configured to permit feedstock to pass from the processing cylinder into the shooting pot from where is it injected into a mold.

A method and apparatus for producing semi-solid material castings from its liquid state in a shot chamber of a vertical die casting machine where the liquid material is poured into a shot chamber and rapidly cooled from its liquid state to temperatures below its liquidus. High-intensity ultrasonic vibration is applied to the cast material. The combined action of rapid cooling from the shot chamber, vigorous pushing by the plunger, and radiation of ultrasonic vibration on the cast material in the shot chamber directly turns the initial liquid material directly into a semi-solid slurry. The slurry is then injected into a die cavity to form a casting.

A sprue system for a diecasting die includes at least one runner channel, which extends from an entry-side sprue mouth opening to an exit-side sprue opening, which opens into a die cavity of the diecasting die that is formed between a fixed die half and a movable die half or into a gate region arranged upstream thereof. The runner channel has a geometrically and/or thermally defined parting region upstream of the sprue opening and downstream of the sprue mouth opening. The runner channel has a bend or kink in the parting region and/or a heating device is assigned to a runner channel portion between the parting region and the exit-side sprue opening and/or a heating device is assigned to a runner channel portion adjoining the parting region upstream and narrowing conically toward the parting region and/or a region of the movable die half opposite the sprue opening has a cooling channel structure.

A method of making a reinforced metal alloy component, the method including introducing a reinforcing phase precursor into a bulk alloy that is selected from the group consisting of high-entropy alloys, aluminum-based alloys, magnesium-based alloys and combinations thereof. The precursor is converted to a reinforcing phase by exposing the bulk alloy and precursor to an elevated temperature during one or more of a subsequent heat treating step, squeeze casting shaping or semi-solid metal shaping.

The invention refers to the metallurgical and foundry industry and can be implemented in the production of metals and alloys under gas pressure, in vacuum, in atmospheric conditions and in special gas medium. The device contains a furnace autoclave 1, a pouring autoclave 2 connected by a shutoff device 3 with a built-in gastight gate 4. The pouring autoclave 2 is disconnected by a gastight gate 5. A feed pipe 6 is secured to the bottom part of a tray 7 of a mould 8. In a capsule 9 at high mode, casting of ingots (slabs, shaped castings), bimetallic and three-layered ingots of two or three alloy grades as well as conventional ingots, is carried out. The furnace autoclave 1 is produced with an induction furnace 12. A specific feature of the invention is the use of a replaceable device for intensive cooling of the melt, which provides for substantial increase in the output of the device.