Nippon Tungsten Co., Ltd.

Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.

Kenji Okamura

Masahiro Yamauchi

Jun Kurobe

Hiroshi Asada

Shigeya Sakaguchi

Shigeru Matsuo

Shigeo Matsubara

Shuichi Teramoto

Yasunao Kai

Shingo Mukae

Shouji Inoue

Provided is an electrode () which has a double structure including Cu or a Cu alloy as an electrode body () and a core material () made of W, Mo, a W-based alloy, or a Mo-based alloy embedded in a surface of the electrode body () which is abutted against a material to be welded, the core material () being formed by using W, Mo, the W-based alloy, or the Mo-based alloy which is in the form of a fibrous structure extended by sintering, swaging, and annealing in an electrode axis direction, the fibrous structure having a horizontal cross-sectional average particle diameter of 50 &#x3bc;m or more and an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more. The electrode () can be used as an inexpensive electrode obtained by suppressing particle dropping/attrition and defects in electrodes for spot welding, in which heat and pressure are applied repeatedly, stably enhancing durability.

Electrode for spot welding

Disclosed is a fire-resistant lead-free shield material having high shielding ability against nuclear or electromagnetic radiation, and excellent bending workability and handling performance. The shield material comprises a composite material consisting of an organic material and a metal or metal compound having a nuclear or electromagnetic radiation-shielding ability. The composite material is formed into a given shape, such as a plate shape, and wrapped with a cloth-like sheet formed of glass fibers, metal fibers or carbon fibers. Alternatively, the shield material comprises a shielding element consisting of an elastic polymeric organic compound and a particle having a nuclear or electromagnetic radiation-shielding ability, such a heavy metal or ferrite. The shield material also includes either one of a film made of polyethylene, nylon, polyester or metal, a wire mesh formed of nylon fiber or metal fiber, and a plate- or rod-shaped member having a surface formed with a protrusion, which is compression-bonded onto or in the vicinity of a surface of the shielding element, or inside the shielding element.

Shield material

A composite material which comprises an elastomer or vulcanized rubber and particles of a high-density material, such as tungsten, evenly dispersed therein, wherein the contents of the elastomer or vulcanized rubber and the high-density particles are 35 to 50 vol. % and 50 to 65 vol. %, respectively, based on the whole composite material, and the high-density particles have a particle composition comprising 60 to 80 vol. % coarse particles having a particle diameter of 10 to 100 &#x3bc;m, 10 to 20 vol. % medium particles having a particle diameter of 3 to 6 &#x3bc;m, and 10 to 20 vol. % fine particles having a particle diameter of 1 to 2 &#x3bc;m, the spaces among the coarse particles being filled with the medium particles and fine particles. The composite material is excellent in flexibility and processability and is suitable for use as a radiation-shielding sheet material, weight member, vibration-damping material, balancing member, radiating material, and shot material.

High-density composite material

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Kenji Okamura