A high-strength magnesium alloy member is suitable for products in which at least one of bending stress and twisting stress primarily acts. The member has required elongation and 0.2% proof stress, whereby strength and formability are superior, and has higher strength and large compressive residual stress in the vicinity of the surface of a wire rod. In the magnesium alloy member formed as a wire rod in which at least one of bending stress and twisting stress primarily acts, the wire rod includes a surface portion having the highest hardness of 170 HV or more in the vicinity of the surface and an inner portion having a 0.2% proof stress of 550 MPa or more and an elongation of 5% or more, and the wire rod has the highest compressive residue stress in the vicinity of the surface of 50 MPa or more.

A sputtering target according to the disclosure includes 5 wtppm to 10,000 wtppm of Cu and the balance of In and has a relative density of 99% or more and an average grain size of 3,000 m or less.

Described herein are novel aluminum containing alloys. The alloys are highly formable and can be used for producing highly shaped aluminum products, including bottles and cans.

The present invention relates to a thermoforming mold for EVA, comprising an upper aluminum mold and a lower aluminum mold, both of which are hinged and each provided with a handle, wherein, the upper aluminum mold is provided with a raised pattern, and the lower aluminum mold is provided with a sunken cavity, characterized in that an upper passage passing through the inside of the pattern is provided inside the upper aluminum mold, a lower passage passing through the bottom of the cavity is provided inside the lower aluminum mold, the upper passage has a first opening in the inner surface of the upper aluminum mold, the lower passage has a second opening corresponding to and communicated with the first opening in the inner surface of the lower aluminum mold, and both sides of the lower passage are provided with a vapor/water inlet and a vapor/water outlet respectively.

The present invention provides a hypereutectic aluminum-silicon alloy die-cast member which contains 20.0% by mass to 30.0% by mass of silicon and also has a thickness of 2.5 mm or less, and a method for producing the same. Disclosed is a die-cast member made of a hypereutectic aluminum-silicon alloy containing 20.0% by mass to 30.0% by mass of silicon, wherein the die-cast member has a thickness of 2.5 mm or less and an average size of primary crystal Si is 0.04 mm to 0.20 mm.

A method for demolding a casting from a casting mold having at least one casting core which images a passage opening in the casting connecting two outer sides of the casting and is produced from a molding material bound by a binder which decomposes under the influence of temperature, wherein the casting mold undergoes a heat treatment in a furnace for the demolding, during which it is heated to a temperature at which the binder loses its binding effect. In the furnace, hot gas is flowed through a passage formed in the casting core of the casting mold, the temperature of the hot gas corresponding at least to the temperature at which the binder of the molding material loses it binding effect such that the casting core decomposes into fragments or separate sand particles as a consequence of the influence of the hot gas.

A method for manufacturing a monoblock-type caliper housing includes: preparing a middle core mold provided with a first and second core-forming portion and a first, second, and third channel; pouring molding sand into the first and second core-forming portions and the first, second, and third channels; heating the middle core mold to form a middle core; forming a salt coating layer on the surfaces of the first, second, and third channel-forming portions of the middle core; putting and heating the middle core in the middle core mold; putting the resultant middle core in a casting mold; pouring molten aluminum in a cavity between the middle core and the casting mold to form a caliper housing; applying ultrasonic waves to the caliper housing to remove the middle core; rinsing the caliper housing; and forming an oil supply hole in the caliper housing.

A castable, moldable, or extrudable structure using a metallic base metal or base metal alloy. One or more insoluble additives are added to the metallic base metal or base metal alloy so that the grain boundaries of the castable, moldable, or extrudable structure includes a composition and morphology to achieve a specific galvanic corrosion rates partially or throughout the structure or along the grain boundaries of the structure. The insoluble additives can be used to enhance the mechanical properties of the structure, such as ductility and/or tensile strength. The insoluble particles generally have a submicron particle size. The final structure can be enhanced by heat treatment, as well as deformation processing such as extrusion, forging, or rolling, to further improve the strength of the final structure as compared to the non-enhanced structure.

A silicon carbide composite that is lightweight and has high thermal conductivity as well as a low thermal expansion coefficient close to that of a ceramic substrate, particularly a silicon carbide composite material suitable for heat dissipating components that are required to be particularly free of warping, such as heat sinks. A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide composite obtained by impregnating a porous silicon carbide molded body with a metal having aluminum as a main component, wherein the method for manufacturing a silicon carbide composite material is characterized in that the porous silicon carbide molded article is formed by a wet molding method, and preferably the wet molding method is a wet press method or is a wet casting method.

An aluminum alloy conductor wire has a composition comprising Mg: 0.1-1.0 mass %, Si: 0.1-1.20 mass %, Fe: 0.01-1.40 mass %, Ti: 0-0.100 mass %, B: 0-0.030 mass %, Cu: 0-1.00 mass %, Ag: 0-0.50 mass %, Au: 0-0.50 mass %, Mn: 0-1.00 mass %, Cr: 0-1.00 mass %, Zr: 0-0.50 mass %, Hf: 0-0.50 mass %, V: 0-0.50 mass %, Sc: 0-0.50 mass %, Co: 0-0.50 mass %, Ni: 0-0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and inevitable impurities, where Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni are arbitrary additive components of which at least one component may be contained or none of the components may be contained. A density of a compound having a particle size of 0.5-5.0 m and containing Fe is 1 to 300 particles/10000 m.sup.2.