A method for manufacturing a continuous casting mold in which cracking and spalling are less likely to occur in a filling laminate. The method includes filling a plurality of concave portions formed on an inner surface of a copper-made mold copper plate or a copper alloy-made mold copper plate used for continuously casting steel at least in a region including a meniscus position of molten steel in a casting process with a metal having a thermal conductivity different from that of the mold copper plate.

Methods and compositions are provided for improving metal dusting corrosion, abrasion resistance and/or erosion resistance for various materials, preferably for applications relating to high-temperature reactors, including dense fluidized bed reactor components. In particular, cermets comprising (a) at least one ceramic phase selected from the group consisting of metal carbides, metal nitrides, metal borides, metal oxides, metal carbonitrides, and mixtures of thereof and (b) at least one metal alloy binder phase are provided. Ceramic phase materials include chromium carbide (Cr.sub.23C.sub.6). Metal alloy binder phase materials include β-NiAl intermetallic alloys and Ni.sub.3Sn.sub.2 intermetallic alloys, as well as alloys that contain α-Cr and/or γ′-Ni.sub.3Al hard phases. Preferably, bimetallic materials are provided when the cermet compositions are applied using a laser, e.g., a laser cladding method such as high power direct diode (HPDD) laser, or by plasma-based methods such as plasma transfer arc (PTA) welding and powder plasma welding (PPW).

The present invention disclosed a method of producing a three-dimensional porous tissue in-growth structure. The method includes the steps of depositing a first layer of metal powder and scanning the first layer of metal powder with a laser beam to form a portion of a plurality of predetermined unit cells. Depositing at least one additional layer of metal powder onto a previous layer and repeating the step of scanning a laser beam for at least one of the additional layers in order to continuing forming the predetermined unit cells. The method further includes continuing the depositing and scanning steps to form a medical implant.

A method for the additive manufacturing of a component having the following steps: additively building up multiple sub-sections for the component using a powder bed-based method, arranging the sub-sections to form a composite and additively completing the component, wherein material is deposited, by a deposition welding method, along a peripheral direction around the composite of the sub-sections in such a way that the sub-sections are integrally bonded to each other.

Ni—Mn—Si based braze filler alloys or metals which may be nickel-rich, manganese-rich, or silicon-rich braze filler alloys, have unexpectedly narrow melting temperature ranges, low solidus and low liquidus temperatures, as determined by Differential Scanning calorimetry (DSC), while exhibiting good wetting, and spreading, without deleterious significant boride formation into the base metal, and can be brazed at lower temperatures. The nickel rich alloys contain 58 wt % to 70 wt % nickel, the manganese-rich alloys contain 55 wt % to 62 wt % manganese, and the silicon-rich alloys contain 25 wt % to 29 wt % silicon. Copper with or without boron to partly replace nickel may be employed without any substantial increase of the melting point, or to reduce the melting point. The braze filler alloys have sufficient brazability to withstand high temperature conditions for thin-walled aeronautical and other heat exchangers.

A method of manufacturing a hard-to-weld material by a beam-assisted additive manufacturing process is presented. The method includes depositing a first layer for the material onto the substrate, the first layer including a major fraction of a base material for the component and a minor fraction of a solder, depositing a second layer of the base material for the component and a thermal treatment of the layer arrangement. The thermal treatment includes a first thermal cycle at a first temperature above 1200° C. for a duration of more than 3 hours, a subsequent second thermal cycle at a second temperature above 1000° C. for more than 2 hours, and a subsequent third thermal cycle and a third temperature above 700° C. for more than 12 hours. A manufactured component is also presented.

A method for joining a modular hot gas component by welding and high-temperature soldering. In order to optimally join high-temperature components, a first component is plugged into pins of a second component, a soldering material is placed between the two components, and the pins of the second component are welded to the first component.

A method of machining includes mounting a component in a drilling machine. The component has a target region where the hole is to be drilled. The component and a jet head are situated relative to each other in a drilling arrangement in which the target region is at a first position that is vertically equal to or vertically above a second position at which the jet head is located. A liquid stream is jetted from the jet head and contains either abrasive particles or a laser beam. The stream impinges the target region, and the abrasive particles or the laser beam cause removal of material from the component to form the hole. The liquid stream rebounds off of the component as back-splash. The drilling arrangement causes gravitational draining of the back-splash from the target region to reduce interference between the back-splash and the liquid stream.

Provided are an electronic component, a lead part connection structure, and a lead part connection method which can reduce damage of a lead part and improve joint strength. In this lead part connection structure, a lead part (3) made of a conductor and a conductive wire (5) made of a plurality of core wires (52) are connected to each other through welding, wherein the lead part (3) and the conductive wire (5) are connected to each other through welding in a condition in which the lead part (3) is fitted into the plurality of core wires (52) of the conductive wire (5). In the conductive wire (5), the core wires (52) are not integrated with each other in advance through welding.

A container system for radioactive waste and method for using the same is provided. The system includes a canister configured for holding radioactive waste and a lid system. In one embodiment, the lid system comprises a two-part lid assembly including a confinement lid and a shielded lifting lid. The confinement lid is detachably mounted to the confinement lid. In use, the lifting lid supports the confinement lid for lifting and placement on the canister. The lifting lid further shields operators while the confinement lid is mounted to the canister. Thereafter, the lifting lid is removed and may be reused for confinement lid mountings on other canisters. In one embodiment, the confinement lid is bolted to the canister. The canister may be disposed in a protective overpack for transport and storage.