Drill bits for use in drilling well bores in subterranean formations, and associated systems and methods of making and using such drill bits, are provided. In certain embodiments, the drill bits comprise: a body; a plurality of blades on the body; a plurality of cutting elements on at least one of the plurality of blades; a reinforcement material forming portions of the body and the plurality of blades; a binder material infiltrated through the reinforcement material to form a composite material and forming portions of the body and the plurality of blades; and at least one interior displacement element located in an interior region of the body that is surrounded by the composite material.

A three-dimensional shaped article production method for producing a three-dimensional shaped article by stacking layers to form a stacked body includes a constituent layer formation step of forming a constituent layer which corresponds to a constituent region of the three-dimensional shaped article, a support layer formation step of forming a support layer which is in contact with the constituent layer and supports the constituent layer, and a sintering step of sintering the constituent layer, wherein the support layer is configured such that as compared with the volume decrement accompanying the sintering step of a space surrounded by the constituent layer from at least two directions, the volume decrement accompanying the sintering step of the support layer which supports the constituent layer in the space is larger.

Methods for manufacturing a metal foam and a metal foam reinforced back plate may be used to provide high-strength and low weight structural elements in portable information handling systems. A method for manufacturing a metal foam may include selectively adding iridium oxide and ceramic particulate to a light-metal allow to create desired mechanical properties of the metal foam.

A process for assembling a device including first and second parts made of first and second materials, respectively, and a third part made of a third material that acts as an intermediate part enabling the assembling, the process including: providing a preform made from an at least partially amorphous metal material capable of increasing its volume under temperature and pressure conditions; placing the first and second parts with the preform between two cavity plates having, the negative shape of the device; heating the assembly to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the crystallization temperature of the preform to enable, at latest during the heating, the preform to be in a form of a foam and enable expansion of the preform to fill the negative shape of the device and form the third part; cooling the assembly to solidify the preform and separate the device from the cavity plates.

A device including a first portion made of a first material and a second portion made of a second material, the second part extends from one of faces of the first portion and is made of an amorphous material.

Porous implant material having a plurality of metal bodies having different porosity rates which are bonded with each other at bonded-boundary surface F parallel to a first direction, wherein: a bonded body of the metal bodies has an entire porosity rate of 50% to 92%; the metal body having higher porosity rate is a porous metal body having a three-dimensional network formed from a continuous skeleton in which a plurality of pores are interconnected; the metal body having lower porosity rate has a porosity rate of 0 to 50% and an area-occupation rate of 0.5% to 50% in a cross-section surface orthogonal to an axial direction which agrees with the first direction along the bonded-boundary surface; and a compressive strength compressing in a direction parallel to the bonded-boundary surface is 1.4 times to 10 times of a compressive strength compressing in a direction orthogonal to the bonded-boundary surface.

This method for producing porous sintered aluminum includes: mixing aluminum powder with a sintering aid powder containing a sintering aid element to obtain a raw aluminum mixed powder; forming the raw aluminum mixed powder into a formed object prior to sintering having pores; and heating the formed object prior to sintering in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to produce porous sintered aluminum, wherein the sintering aid element is titanium, and when a temperature at which the raw aluminum mixed powder starts to melt is expressed as Tm ( C.), then a temperature T ( C.) of the heating fulfills Tm-10 ( C.)T685 ( C.).

A biocompatible seed for implantation in tissue of a patient includes an elongated body sized and shaped to be at least partially inserted into the tissue of the patient, in which the body includes a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) material having a Poisson's ratio of between 0 and 1. The seed can be a thermal seed configured to generate heat responsive to exposure to a magnetic field. The seed can be a seed for brachytherapy that includes an inner layer including a radioactive material and an outer layer including the NPR material.

A biocompatible seed for implantation in tissue of a patient includes an elongated body sized and shaped to be at least partially inserted into the tissue of the patient, in which the body includes a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) material having a Poisson's ratio of between 0 and 1. The seed can be a thermal seed configured to generate heat responsive to exposure to a magnetic field. The seed can be a seed for brachytherapy that includes an inner layer including a radioactive material and an outer layer including the NPR material.

A biocompatible seed for implantation in tissue of a patient includes an elongated body sized and shaped to be at least partially inserted into the tissue of the patient, in which the body includes a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) material having a Poisson's ratio of between 0 and 1. The seed can be a thermal seed configured to generate heat responsive to exposure to a magnetic field. The seed can be a seed for brachytherapy that includes an inner layer including a radioactive material and an outer layer including the NPR material.