Abstract:
An Al—Si coated press hardening component, wherein the Al—Si coating comprises a low-Al content ferrite layer with an Al content of less than 5 wt % and a thickness of greater than 5 μm, and having a maximum bending angle of the Al—Si coated press hardening component is greater than 65°. The thickness of the tough low-Al content ferrite layer in the Al—Si coating after hot stamping, reaching 5-100 μm, by improving the hot stamping process, so that the formation or propagation of cracks on the surface or the coating is effectively prevented, and the bendability of the pre-coated steel after hot stamping is improved. At the same time, the hot stamping process of the present invention can take into account or optimize the microstructure of the steel substrate to further improve the bendability and tensile property of the whole material.
Abstract:
A bearing assembly, particularly refrigerant lubricated bearing assembly, having at least an inner ring and an outer ring, which are rotatable to each other. At least one bearing ring is made from a nitrogen-alloyed stainless steel having a nitrogen (N) content of more than 0.6 wt.-%. A method for manufacturing such a bearing ring is also provided.
Abstract:
A method of generating twin lamellas in a metal body includes the steps of introducing the metal body into a chamber, filling the chamber with a cooling medium having a temperature that will enable generation of twin lamellas in the metal body upon deformation thereof, and deforming the metal body while the latter is surrounded by the cooling medium. The cooling medium surrounds the metal body upon deformation of the latter is in a gaseous state. The present disclosure also relates to a device for generating twin lamellas in the metal body, the device including a chamber, a chamber inlet connected to a cooling medium source, and a deformation device arranged to deform the metal body. The deformation device is positioned inside the chamber so that the metal body will be surrounded by the cooling medium in a gaseous state while being deformed by the deformation device.
Abstract:
In various embodiments, electronic devices such as thin-film transistors incorporate electrodes featuring a conductor layer and, disposed below the conductor layer, a barrier layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a sintered magnet includes molding a green compact formed by compacting a magnet powder by press-molding the magnet powder, the green compact forming an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having Nd as the principal component and containing a rare earth element R, sintering the green compact by heating to a sintering temperature, so as to mold a sintered magnet, pressure molding the sintered magnet by heating to a temperature not exceeding the sintering temperature, so as to correct dimensions of the sintered magnet, and adjusting the texture of the sintered magnet by aging heat treatment using heated atmosphere produced when correcting the dimensions of the sintered magnet at a temperature not exceeding the temperature during the pressure molding.
Abstract:
A method of pulsed laser processing of solid surface for enhancing surface hydrophobicity is disclosed wherein the solid surface is covered with a transparent medium during laser processing and the laser beam incidents through the covering medium and irradiates the solid surface. Two effects are obtained simultaneously. One is the laser-induced texture formation directly under the laser irradiation. The other is the deposition of the laser-removed materials along the laser scan lines. Both effects introduce surface roughness on nanometer scales, and both enhance surface hydrophobicity, rendering superhydrophobicity on the surfaces of both the laser-irradiated solid and the covering medium. Because the beam scan line spacing can be larger than a single scan line width by multiple times, this method provides a high processing speed of square inch per minute and enables large area processing.
Abstract:
Metallic workpieces of diverse shapes having work surfaces which are deformed at the surface and adjacent sub-surface layers by surface impact from ultrasonic transducers employing freely axially moving impacting elements propelled and energized by a transducer oscillating surface vibrating periodically at an ultrasonic frequency. The impacting elements are propelled in a random aperiodic and controlled impact mode at different phases of the periodic oscillation cycles. The transducer may be portable and provides a series of mechanically interconnected stages having mechanical resonances harmonically related as a multiple of the primary ultrasonic frequency and have matched stage resistances under instantaneous loading when the impact elements are driven by the transducer oscillating surface into the surface of the workpiece. This mode of operation produces Q-factor amplification of the input ultrasonic power oscillator energy at the impact needles and high propulsion velocities making it possible to machine metallic workpiece bodies to greater depths for compressing the metal to increase compressive strength of the workpiece work surfaces to substantially the ultimate material strength. The impact machining is done at ambient temperatures.
Abstract:
Ball-and-roller bearing parts are alloyed with alloyed with 0.6% to 1.3% by weight of C, 0.3% to 3.0% by weight of Si, 0.2% to 1.5% by weight of Mn, 0.03% by weight or less of P, 0.03% by weight or less of S, 0.3% to 5.0% by weight of Cr, 0.1% to 3.0% by weight of Ni, 0.050% by weight or less of Al, 0.003% by weight or less of Ti, 0.0015% by weight or less of O, and 0.015% by weight or less of N with the remainder being made up of Fe and inevitable impurities. The part has a nitrogen-enriched layer. The austenite crystals of the steel have a grain size number of greater than 10.
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:
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.