An apparatus for synchronously melting and preparing alloy, the alloy to be added is made into wire in advance, and the wire feeding speed required for the preparation of the alloy with a specific composition is calculated according to the flow rate of raw molten aluminum in the launder. In the continuous ingot casting process, the wire is continuously and stably fed into the launder of the raw molten aluminum at the wire feeding speed, and the alloy preparation is formed in real time, which is able to avoid specific gravity segregation caused by the long-term standing of melt, and realize the preparation of gradient materials while significantly improving the alloying efficiency. The present disclosure also relates to a method for synchronously melting and preparing alloy.

An electrode for the use of an advanced lithium battery is fabricated using three-dimensionally structured metal foam coated with an active material. The metal foam is porous metal foam that can be used as an anode current collector of a lithium-ion battery and is coated with an anode active material, such as tin, through a sonication-assisted electroless plating method. Additionally, the coated metal foam is heat-treated at an appropriate temperature in order to improve the integrity of the coating layer and hence, the cyclic performance of the lithium-ion battery.

A Cu—Al—Mn-based alloy material (1) having a composition comprising: given contents of Al and Mn, and a given total content of at least one selected from Ni and the like; with the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities, wherein the alloy material has a shape elongated in the working direction (RD), wherein a grain length a.sub.x in the RD is R/2 or less to the width or diameter (R), a grain length b.sub.x in a direction perpendicular to the RD is R/4 or less, and the amount of grains X (2) is 15% or less, and wherein a grain length a in the RD and a grain length b in the direction perpendicular to the RD satisfy: a≥b, and an angle formed by the normal line of the (111) plane and the RD is 15° or larger, the amount of grains Y′ (3) is 85% or more.

A casting mold to cast a TiAl alloy includes a casting mold body formed into a bottomed shape and provided with a cavity. The casting mold body includes a reaction-resistant layer provided on the cavity side, formed from a refractory material containing at least one of cerium oxide, yttrium oxide, and zirconium oxide and a back-up layer formed on the reaction-resistant layer. The back-up layer includes a weakening layer formed from a refractory material including a silica material in a range from 80% by mass to 100% by mass inclusive, the silica material containing cristobalite in a range from 26% by mass to 34% by mass inclusive and the rest being fused silica, the weakening layer being designed to reduce casting mold strength and a shape-retention layer formed from a refractory material.

Magnetic copper-nickel-tin-manganese alloys are disclosed. Also disclosed are processing steps that can be performed for maintaining and/or changing various magnetic or mechanical properties of the alloys. Further described herein are methods for using such an alloy, including various articles produced therefrom.

A copper-nickel-tin alloy with excellent castability, hot and cold workability, high resistance to abrasive wear, adhesive wear and fretting wear and improved resistance to corrosion and stress relaxation stability, consisting of (in weight %): 2.0-10.0% Ni, 2.0-10.0% Sn, 0.01-1.0% Fe, 0.01-0.8.% Mg, 0.01-1.5% Si, 0.002-0.45% B, 0.004-0.3% P, selectively up to a maximum of 2.0% Co, selectively up to a maximum of 0.25% Pb, the residue being copper and unavoidable impurities. The ratio Si/B of the element contents in wt. % of the elements silicon and boron is a minimum 0.4 and a maximum 8 such that the copper-nickel-tin alloy has Si-containing and B-containing phases and phases of the systems Ni—Si—B, Ni—B, Fe—B, Ni—P, Fe—P, Mg—P, Ni—Si, Mg—Si and other Fe-containing phases and Mg-containing phases which improve the processing and use properties of the alloy.

A method of manufacturing a golf club head enables increased moment-of-inertia and improved durability. The golf club head's crown portion has a first region having a first thickness and multiple second regions having a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness. The second regions are distributed in a radiating fashion so as to extend from an origin toward a peripheral portion of the crown portion excluding the face side, the origin being located within 15 mm of the center of gravity of the golf club head in the toe-heel direction and also being located in the vicinity of the face side in the face-back direction in a plan view.

A method for fabricating a cast component with a cooling channel is provided. The method includes forming a shell mold over a pattern-ceramic matrix composite (CMC) elongated core arrangement to define a cavity in the shell mold. The pattern-CMC elongated core arrangement includes a pattern-forming material with a CMC elongated core disposed therein. The pattern-forming material in the cavity is replaced with metal via a casting process to form the cast component with the CMC elongated core disposed therein defining the cooling channel. The CMC elongated core is removed from the cast component to open the cooling channel for fluid communication.

An electrode for the use of an advanced lithium battery is fabricated using three-dimensionally structured metal foam coated with an active material. The metal foam is porous metal foam that can be used as an anode current collector of a lithium-ion battery and is coated with an anode active material, such as tin, through a sonication-assisted electroless plating method. Additionally, the coated metal foam is heat-treated at an appropriate temperature in order to improve the integrity of the coating layer and hence, the cyclic performance of the lithium-ion battery.

A method of making an alpha-beta titanium alloy is provided. The method includes forming a melt and solidifying the melt to form an ingot. The melt composition includes concentrations of Al from about 4.7 wt. % to about 6.0 wt. %; V from about 6.5 wt. % to about 8.0 wt. %; Si at less than 1 wt. %; Fe at up to about 0.3 wt. %; 0 at less than 1 wt. %; and a balance of Ti and incidental impurities. Furthermore, the Al/V ratio in the melt is equal to the concentration of the Al divided by the concentration of the V in weight percent is from about 0.65 to about 0.8.