Disclosed is a non-quenched and tempered round steel with high strength, high toughness and easy cutting, comprising the following chemical elements in percentage by mass: C: 0.36-0.45%, Si: 0.20-0.70%, Mn: 1.25-1.85%, Cr: 0.15-0.55%, Ni: 0.10-0.25%, Mo: 0.10-0.25%, Al: 0.02-0.05%, Nb: 0.001-0.040%, V: 0.10-0.25%, S: 0.02-0.06%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the non-quenched and tempered round steel, comprising the steps of: S1: smelting and casting; S2: heating; S3: forging or rolling; and S4: finishing. The non-quenched and tempered round steel with high strength, high toughness and easy cutting described above has high strength, good impact toughness, elongation and cross-sectional shrinkage, and has good cutting performance and fatigue resistance, and can be used in situations requiring a high-strength steel material, such as automobiles and engineering machinery.

A non-magnetic part including an austenitic alloy, the austenitic alloy including between 50 and 85 wt % of iron, one or more gammagene elements the weight percentage or the total weight percentages of which amount to between 15 and 35 wt %, and less than 2 wt % of nitrogen. The austenitic alloy has a crystallographic structure including a predominantly cubic crystal structure and the presence of a hexagonal crystal structure. The magnetic part includes a hardness gradient in the direction extending radially from the surface of the at least one portion of the non-magnetic part to the inside of the non-magnetic part, the hardness gradient having a value greater than or equal to 100 HV.

Elements formed from magnetic materials and their methods of manufacture are presented. Magnetic materials include a magnetic alloy material, such as, for example, an FeCo alloy material (e.g., the FeCoV alloy Hiperco-50). The magnetic alloy materials may comprise a powdered material suitable for use in additive manufacturing techniques, such as, for example direct energy deposition or laser powder bed fusion. Manufacturing techniques include the use of variable deposition time and energy to control the magnetic and structural properties of the materials by altering the microstructure and residual stresses within the material. Manufacturing techniques also include post deposition processing, such as, for example, machining and heat treating. Heat treating may include a multi-step process during which the material is heated, held and then cooled in a series of controlled steps such that a specific history of stored internal energy is created within the material. Magnetic elements may include, for example, motors, generators, solenoids and switches, sensors, transformers, and hall thrusters, among other elements.

The steel material includes a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 0.20 to 0.60%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.80 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.17 to 0.30%, V: 0.24 to 0.40%, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.0300% or less, O: 0.0015% or less, and the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1) to Formula (4) described in Embodiment, wherein, in its microstructure, a total area fraction of ferrite and pearlite is 10.0% or more, and a proportion of a content of V (mass %) in electrolytic extraction residue to the content of V (mass %) in the chemical composition is 10.0% or less.

The present invention provides a method for obtaining a carburized part using steel high in content of Cr and realizing bending fatigue strength at an extremely high level by vacuum carburizing. The carburized part is obtained by treating a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition by vacuum carburizing provided with a carburizing period of 10 to 200 minutes at 850 to 1100? C. and a diffusion period of 15 to 300 minutes at 850 to 1100? C., then quenching and tempering it.

A quench and temper steel alloy is disclosed having the following composition in weight percent. TABLE-US-00001 C 0.2-0.5 Mn 0.1-1.0 Si 0.1-1.2 Cr 9-14.5 Ni 2.0-5.5 Mo 1-2 Cu 0-1.0 Co 1-4 W 0.2 max. V 0.1-1.0 Ti up to 0.5 Nb 0-0.5 Ta 0-0.5 Al 0-0.25 Ce 0-0.01 La 0-0.01
The balance of the alloy is iron and the usual impurities including not more than about 0.01% phosphorus, not more than about 0.010% sulful, and not more than about 0.10% nitrogen. A quenched and tempered steel article made from this alloy is also disclosed. The steel article is characterized by a tensile strength of at least about 290 ksi, a fracture toughness (k.sub.Ic) of at least about 65 ksi, good resistance to general corrosion, and good resistance to pitting corrosion.

A billet pushout system is provided for an electric induction billet heating line with long length revolute jointed pushout rods forming a non-jamming pushout rod assembly that is stored in a linear enclosure connected to an arcuate enclosure that deploys and retracts the pushout rod assembly to and from the electric induction billet heating line.

A steel for cold forging has a predetermined chemical composition, satisfies d+310.0 and SA/SB<0.30, includes 1200/mm.sup.2 or more of sulfides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 to 10.0 m in a microstructure, and has an average distance between the sulfides of less than 30.0 m. Here, d is an average value of equivalent circle diameters of sulfides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 m or more, is a standard deviation of the equivalent circle diameters of the sulfides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 m or more, SA is the number of sulfides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 m or more and less than 3.0 m, and SB is the number of the sulfides having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 m or more.

When a rod-shaped workpiece (W) having an outer peripheral surface with a circular cross section is inductively heated to a quenching temperature while being conveyed at a predetermined velocity along an axial direction of the rod-shaped workpiece (W), the rod-shaped workpiece (W) being currently conveyed is heated to a predetermined temperature equal to or lower than the quenching temperature by a first heating coil (2A), which is electrically connected to a first high-frequency power supply (3) and has a constant output. Then, the rod-shaped workpiece (W) being currently conveyed is heated so as to be maintained at the quenching temperature by a second heating coil (2B), which is electrically connected to a second high-frequency power supply (4) and has a constant output.

Provided is a heat treatment apparatus (1), including: a conveying device (10), which is configured to convey a rod-shaped workpiece (W) at a predetermined velocity along an axial direction of the workpiece (W); and a heating device (2) including a heating coil (3) configured to inductively heat the workpiece (W) being conveyed to a quenching temperature, wherein the heating coil (3) includes a first heating section (3A) and a second heating section (3B), which are coupled to each other in series along the axial direction of the workpiece (W), and is electrically connected to a single high-frequency power supply (4), and wherein a coil pitch (D2) of the second heating section (3B) arranged relatively on a front side in a conveying direction for the workpiece (W) is larger than a coil pitch (D1) of the first heating section (3A) arranged relatively on a rear side in the conveying direction.