A process for producing a titanium load-bearing structure, which comprises cold-gas dynamic spraying of titanium particles on to a suitably shaped support member, and a titanium load bearing structure so-produced.

Process for producing a titanium alloy material, such as a titanium aluminum alloy, are provided. The process includes reduction of TiCl.sub.4, which includes a titanium ion (Ti.sup.4+), through intermediate ionic states (e.g., Ti.sup.3+) to Ti.sup.2+, which may then undergo a disproportionation reaction to form the titanium aluminum alloy.

The invention belongs to the fields of amorphous alloy composites, additive manufacturing technology and hot isostatic pressing sintering forming, and in particular relates to a preparation method of tungsten particle reinforced amorphous matrix composites, comprising the following steps: (1) making tungsten powder and amorphous alloy powder into a preform by the micro-jetting and bonding 3D printing technology, specifically comprising: in the preforming process by micro-jetting and bonding, through a double-drum type powder feeding device, spraying tungsten powder and amorphous alloy powder into a layer of uniformly mixed powder layer by double nozzles, then bonding the powder layer into a bonding layer by the binder, and repeating the operations of spraying the powders and binder, so that a preform with uniform particle phase distribution is finally prepared; (2) placing the preform in a capsule, and performing heating and vacuumizing on the capsule in a heating furnace; and (3) placing the capsule in the hot isostatic pressing sintering furnace and performing hot press forming to obtain an amorphous matrix composite. In the present invention, through combining the cold additive micro-jetting and bonding technology with hot isostatic pressing sintering forming, a tungsten particle reinforced amorphous matrix composite with large size and uniform particle phase distribution can be prepared.

Provided is a nickel-based composite coating, method for producing the same and use thereof. A powder mixture is coated on the surface of a substrate to obtain a nickel-based composite coating, wherein the powder mixture comprises nickel-chromium-boron-silicon powders and barium titanate powders. The barium titanate powders are added to the nickel-based powders as a second phase to form BaTiO.sub.3NiCrBSi metal-based ceramic composite coating. The nickel-based barium titanate composite coating has an excellent damping shock absorbing performance and gives the substrate strength as well. Comparing with the conventional coating materials, the coating obtained by the present disclosure through plasma cladding technique not only bonds with the substrate in a metallurgic way, but also has a small heat affected zone, specifically, an excellent damping shock absorbing performance. In embodiments of the present disclosure, vibration and noise generated by the cylinder head is reduced 20% by using the shock absorbing cladding coating.

Provided are: an alloy member that is excellent in homogeneity of both the alloy composition and microstructure and excellent in shape controllability and includes a high entropy alloy having high mechanical properties and high corrosion resistance, a process for producing the same, and a product including the alloy member.

In the present invention, the alloy member having a chemical composition comprising elements of Co, Cr, Fe, Ni, and Ti each in an amount within a range of 5 atomic % or more and 35 atomic % or less and Mo in an amount within a range of more than 0 atomic % and 8 atomic % or less, the reminder consisting of unavoidable impurities, wherein ultrafine grains having an average grain diameter of 100 nm or less are dispersed and precipitated in a parent phase crystal.

A method for manufacturing a spherical metallic powder blend using a metallic starting material, the method including steps of grinding the metallic starting material to yield an intermediate powder, spheroidizing the intermediate powder to yield a first spherical powder component, and mixing the first spherical powder component with a second spherical powder component, wherein the first spherical powder component and the second spherical powder component have substantially the same chemical composition.

A method of forming titanium-based spherical metallic particles includes contacting a feedstock material including a metal halide with a reductant in the presence of a microwave plasma discharge.

A method of forming titanium-based spherical metallic particles includes performing a hydride-dehydride process on a meltless metallic sponge to form a feedstock material including a metallic powder. The method further includes introducing the feedstock material into a microwave plasma discharge to form the titanium-based spherical metallic particles.

The present specification relates to a metal nanoparticle.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of the preparation of alloy materials, and discloses a high strength and toughness alloy material, a method for preparing the alloy material by semi-solid sintering, and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the three steps of mixing powders, preparing alloy powders by high-energy ball milling, and semi-solid sintering of alloy powders, the key point lies in the two-step sintering, wherein the temperature is heated to less than the initial melting temperature of the lowest-temperature melting peak of the alloy powder, under the sintering pressure conditions, and carried out a sintering densification treatment; after pressure release, the temperature is heated to the sintering temperature Ts, and maintained at the same temperature, and a semi-solid processing is carried out, with a sintering temperature Ts: Tsthe initial melting temperature of the lowest-temperature melting peak of the alloy powder, Tsthe initial melting temperature of the highest-temperature melting peak of the alloy powder. By using the present method, a variety of high melting point alloy systems comprising such as Ti-based, Ni-based alloy system, and the like are carried out a semi-solid processing, so as to obtain an alloy material with a novel microstructure such as nanocrystalline, ultra-fine crystalline, fine crystalline or bimodal structure, and the like, and having excellent performances, which can be widely used in the fields of aerospace, military, instruments and the like.