A method for making an ordered magnetic alloy includes (a) providing a thermally conductive base having opposite first and second surfaces; (b) forming a thermal barrier layer on the first surface of the thermally conductive base; (c) forming a disordered magnetic alloy layer on the thermal barrier layer, the disordered magnetic alloy layer being made from a disordered alloy which contains a first metal selected from Fe, Co, and Ni, and a second metal selected from Pt and Pd; and (d) after step (c), applying a transient heat to the thermally conductive base to cause rapid thermal expansion of the thermally conductive base, which, in turn, causes generation of an in-plane tensile stress in the disordered magnetic alloy layer.

An apparatus, material and method for forming a brazing sheet has a composite braze liner layer of low melting point aluminum alloy and 4000 series braze liner. The low melting point layer of the composite braze liner facilitates low temperature brazing and decrease of the diffusion of magnesium from the core into the composite braze liner. The reduction of magnesium diffusion also lowers the formation of associated magnesium oxides at the braze joint interface that are resistant to removal by Nocolok flux, thereby facilitating the formation of good brazing joints through the use of low temperature controlled atmosphere brazing (CAB) and Nocolok flux. The apparatus also enables the production of brazing sheet materials with high strength and good corrosion property.

A composite armor plate is disclosed. The composite armor plate includes a first layer made from an ultra-high hardness, high strength alloy that is bonded to a second layer made from a high fracture toughness alloy that also may have high strength. The composite armor plate according to the present provides a gradient of strength, hardness, and toughness. The composite armor plate according to the invention may also include third and fourth layers of different alloys that provide combinations of hardness, strength, and fracture toughness that are intermediate of the hardness, strength, and fracture toughness provided by the first and second steel layers. A method of making the composite armor plate is also disclosed.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having: low high-frequency iron loss and high magnetic flux density; an inner layer and surface layers provided on both sides of the inner layer, the surface layers and the inner layer having specific chemical compositions; the thickness t of 0.01 mm to 0.35 mm; a multilayer ratio of ti to t of 0.10 to 0.70, t.sub.1 denoting a total thickness of the surface layers; a difference between [Si].sub.1 and [Si].sub.0 of 1.0 mass % to 4.5 mass % or less, [Si].sub.1 denoting a Si content in each of the surface layers and [Si].sub.0 denoting a Si content in the inner layer; and a difference between [Mn].sub.0 and [Mn].sub.1 of 0.01 mass % to 0.40 mass %, [Mn].sub.0 denoting a Mn content at a mid-thickness position t/2 and [Mn].sub.1 denoting an average Mn content in a region from a surface to a position at a depth of ( 1/10)t.

The method is for manufacturing a clad material (30), which includes: clad rolling for rolling and bonding a first metal plate (131) made of stainless steel, a second metal plate (132) made of Cu or a Cu alloy, and a third metal plate (133) made of stainless steel in a state in which the first metal plate, the second metal plate, and the third metal plate are stacked in this order. The clad rolling is performed with a pressure-bonding load of 4.4×10.sup.3 N/mm or more. The second layer is made of Cu or a Cu alloy. The third layer is made of stainless steel. The clad material has an overall thickness of 1 mm or less.

A roll-bonded clad metal sheet and a method for producing a roll-bonded clad metal sheet is provided. The roll-bonded clad sheet includes a metallic base material layer and a metallic cladding material layer which are joined to one another by a metallurgical bond. The metallic cladding material layer includes a nickel-based material whose chemical composition includes, in % by mass, a proportion of more than 50% of Ni and a proportion of 3.1% of Nb. The metallurgical bond is obtained by a thermomechanical rolling process including a first rolling phase for prerolling, a second rolling phase for final forming and a cooling time between the first rolling phase and the second rolling phase, wherein a final rolling temperature of the second rolling phase is set to a value equal to or less than 880° C.

An apparatus, material and method for forming a brazing sheet has a high strength core bonded with corrosion protection layer on the coolant side and/or layers on both airside and coolant side. The material enables heat exchanger components, such as tube, header, plate, etc., for applications, such as automotive heat exchangers, that require high fatigue life as well as high service life in a corrosive environment.

A method of creating a clad metal part is provided. The method includes explosion bonding a plate comprised of a base layer and an interlayer. The explosion bonded plate is then cut into bars which are roll bonded with a clad layer. Ultimately a part is fabricated from the roll bonded bar. The solution enables parts to have material combinations and resulting physical properties more optimal for an application than a single bonding process.

Provided is a steel sheet comprising a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer softened part and a second surface layer softened part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer softened part and second surface layer softened part have 10 μm or more average thicknesses and have average Vickers hardnesses of 0.90 time or less of the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and the first surface layer softened part has an average Vickers hardness of 1.05 times or more the average Vickers hardness of the second surface layer softened part.

Disclosed is a multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate, provided with an upper surface layer, a lower surface layer and at least one interlayer between the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer in the thickness direction of the steel plate, wherein the phase proportion of austenite in the microstructure of the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer is ≥95%, and the at least one interlayer comprises at least one first interlayer, with the phase proportion of martensite in the microstructure of the first interlayer being ≥85%. In addition, further disclosed is a method for manufacturing the multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate above, the method comprising the steps of: (1) preparing billets for various layers and assembling the billets; (2) rolling; (3) acid pickling and cold-rolling; (4) annealing, involving: controlling the annealing temperature to be 830-890° C., then cooling to 700-800° C. at a rate of 3-15° C./s, and then water-cooling until the steel plate temperature is below 100° C.; and (5) acid pickling the steel plate and then heating same to 180-240° C. for tempering, with the tempering time being 200-600 s. The multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate of the present invention has the characteristics of a high strength, a high formability and resistance to delayed cracking.