The application relates to a method for producing a double-walled pipe (1) and a pipe (1) of this type, having an outer pipe (3) which is press-fitted with an inner pipe (2) consisting of a corrosion-resistant alloy, wherein an adhesive (4) is inserted at least in regions between the outer pipe (3) and the inner pipe (2), wherein, after adhering the inner pipe (2) with the outer pipe (3), the inner pipe (2) and the adhesive layer (4) are removed at the pipe ends, and the inner side of the outer pipe (3) is plated via an integral connection with the inner pipe (2).

An apparatus is provided for cutting pieces from laminar material wound in coil using a laser or plasma cutting machine. In one apparatus according to the invention, a cutting station includes at least one moveable cutting head arranged between the station's entrance and exit, and a means to position a portion of laminar material on a cutting plane. The positioning means includes three separate locking devices, each of which can lock on a portion of the laminar material as it passes through the cutting station. The three locking devices are arranged in succession: the first near the cutting station's entrance, the second near the exit, and the third between the first and second locking devices. At least the third locking device is movable, in the space between the other two devices, along a portion of laminar material while the material is kept under tension.

A method is provided for marking a location on a surface of a component. The location defines a normal extending perpendicularly therefrom. The method includes irradiating the location with a first laser beam to create a first mark having a first color. The first laser beam is disposed at a first angle relative to the normal. The method also includes irradiating the location with a second laser beam to create a second mark having a second color different than the first color. The second laser beam is disposed at a second angle relative to the normal. The second angle is different than the first angle.

The present invention provides a current auxiliary friction additive manufacturing device, which includes a friction coating device, a movable worktable and a current generation device. The device is specially used for current auxiliary friction additive manufacturing. The present invention further provides a current auxiliary friction additive manufacturing method. The present invention promotes interface reaction and interface bonding between a coating and a substrate or between the coatings in the traditional friction additive manufacturing process, and improves the bonding strength and service performance of the coating. The method is suitable for manufacturing various thermoplastic conductive consumables such as friction additives of aluminum alloy.

A method of producing a ferritic heat-resistant steel welded joint, the method including: a multi-layer welding step in which a ferritic heat-resistant steel base material including B at 0.006% by mass to 0.023% by mass is multi-layer welded using a Ni-based welding material for heat-resistant alloy, wherein root pass welding is performed under a welding condition such that a ratio of an area [S.sub.BM] that has been melted of the ferritic heat-resistant steel base material to an area [S.sub.WM] of a weld metal, in a transverse cross-section of a weldment after the root pass welding but before second pass welding in the multi-layer welding step, satisfies the following formula (1): 0.1≤[S.sub.BM]/[S.sub.WM]≤−50×[% B.sub.BM]+1.3, with respect to a mass percent of B, [% B.sub.BM], which is included in the ferritic heat-resistant steel base material.

Provided is an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus that forms an electrode sheet by cutting a sheet stack including an electrode composite material layer and a separator provided on the electrode composite material layer. The electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a laser irradiation device that irradiates the sheet stack with a first laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the separator and a second laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the electrode composite material layer, and a controller that controls driving of the laser irradiation device. The controller moves an irradiation position of the first laser beam relative to the sheet stack and moves an irradiation position of the second laser beam so as to follow a track of the irradiation position of the first laser beam.

A friction stir spot welding apparatus including a controller that (A) operates a rotary driver and a tool driver such that a pin and a shoulder are brought into contact with a welded workpiece; (B) operates, after the (A), the rotary driver and the tool driver such that the pin separates from the welded workpiece; and (C) operates, after the (B), the rotary driver and the tool driver such that the pin advances toward the welded workpiece. The controller controls the tool driver such that pressing force applied to the welded workpiece from the pin and the shoulder in the (C) is smaller than that in the (B) and/or controls the rotary driver such that rotational frequencies of the pin and the shoulder in the (C) are lower than those in the (B).

Devices, systems, and/or methods that can facilitate plating one or more metal layers onto a niobium-titanium substrate are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a first metal layer plated on a portion of the niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a second metal layer plated on the first metal layer. The device can further comprise a third metal layer plated on the second metal layer.

Provided herein are anode assembly, conductive contact strips, electrochemical cells containing the anode assembly and the conductive contact strips, and methods to use and manufacture the same, where the anode assembly includes a plurality of V-shaped, U-shaped, or Z-shaped elements positioned outside the anode shell and in electrical contact with the anode.

A system includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes first and second coalesced layers and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and second coalesced layers. The first and second coalesced layers have a higher degree of coalescence than the intermediate layer.