Nippon Steel Research Laboratories, Futtsu, 28 Feb 94, and Advanced Materials andTechnology Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, 15 Jun 94

摘要

Visits were paid to two of Nippon's Steels premier research laboratories: SteelResearch and Advance Materials and Technology Research. The main focus of the visits were titanium, titanium-aluminide, and carbon-based materials development at Nippon Steel, all areas in which Nippon Steel is trying to develop new products and markets. In particular, Nippon Steel has been somewhat successful in marketing Ti as a structural and functional material in new non-aerospace markets such as construction and consumer goods. They have also placed emphasis on the automotive markets, but so far have met only limited success. Their penetration into the high performance aerospace Ti alloys markets have been very limited. Research and development efforts in new self-lubricating materials and functionally gradient materials technologies are also reviewed. (MM).