Abstract:
Disclosed is an elongated metallic article having a curved section therein which has a first part formed on an outside part of the curved section, and a second part formed on an inside part of the curved section. The first part was initially deformed beyond a region of twin boundary deformation, but was thereafter returned to the region of twin boundary deformation. The second part was left deformed beyond the region of twin boundary deformation. When a compressive load is applied to the thus prepared article, and the first part and the second part are both compressed, the first part can deform more readily than the second part so that the article deforms into a more straight shape as its deformation progresses. Thus, the article may be made resistant to buckling in spite of the presence of the curved section.
Abstract:
The present concepts include a zero-porosity structure having a plurality of structural elements arranged to provide a negative Poisson's ratio and, further, a new mechanism to generate negative Poisson's ratio is single material, zero-porosity structure.
Abstract:
A method for refining the grain size of alloys which undergo ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase transformation and an alloy produced therefrom. By subjecting the alloy to a timed application of a strong magnetic field, the temperature of phase boundaries can be shifted enabling phase transformations at lower temperatures.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an iron, aluminum, chromium, carbon alloy and a method of producing the same, wherein the alloy has good room temperature ductility, excellent high temperature oxidation resistance and ductility. The alloy includes about 10 to 70 at.% iron, about 10 to 45 at.% aluminum, about 1 to 70 at.% chromium and about 0.9 to 15 at.% carbon. The invention is also directed to a material comprising a body-centered-cubic solid solution of this alloy, and a method for strengthening this material by the precipitation of body-centered-cubic particles within the solid solution, wherein the particles have substantially the same lattice parameters as the underlying solid solution. The ease of processing and excellent mechanical properties exhibited by the alloy, especially at high temperatures, allows it to be used in high temperature structural applications, such as a turbocharger component.
Abstract:
A hot rolled steel sheet with improved formability and producing method therefor, which can be easily produced with general hot strip mills, having less anisotropy of mechanical properties and final ferrite grain diameter of less than 2 µm that could not be achieved by the prior art. The hot rolled steel sheet comprises a ferrite phase as a primary phase, and has an average ferrite grain diameter of less than 2 µm, with the ferrite grains having an aspect ratio of less than 1.5. The hot rolled steel sheet is obtained by carried out a reduction process under a dynamic recrystallization conditions through reduction passes of not less than 5 stands in the hot finish rolling.
Abstract:
The present concepts include a zero-porosity structure having a plurality of structural elements arranged to provide a negative Poisson's ratio and, further, a new mechanism to generate negative Poisson's ratio is single material, zero-porosity structure. The present disclosure is directed to transformation of a sheet structure, or one or more subparts thereof, having a Positive Poisson's Ratio (PPR) to a Negative Poisson's Ratio (an "auxetic" structure) along one or more axes.