1. Ferritic stainless steel having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.020% or less, Si: 3.0% or less, Mn: 3.0% or less, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 10% to 25%, N: 0.020% or less, Nb: 0.005% to 0.15%, Al: 0.3% or more and less than 1.0% , Ti: 5\xd7(C %+N %) to 0.5%, Mo: 0.1% or less, W: 0.1% or less, Cu: 0.55% to 2.0%, B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%, Ni: 0.05% to 1.0%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, where C % and N % in the expression 5\xd7(C %+N %) respectively represent the contents (mass %) of the chemical elements C and N, wherein the ferritic stainless steel exhibits a weight gain by oxidation of less than 50 gm2.
2. The ferritic stainless steel according to claim 1, the steel having the chemical composition further containing, by mass %, one or more selected from the group consisting of REM: 0.001% to 0.08%, Zr: 0.01% to 0.5%, V: 0.01% to 0.5%, and Co: 0.01% to 0.5%.
3. The ferritic stainless steel according to claim 1, the steel having the chemical composition further containing, by mass %, one or more selected from the group consisting of Ca: 0.0005% to 0.0030% and Mg: 0.0002% to 0.0020%.
4. The ferritic stainless steel according to claim 2, the steel having the chemical composition further containing, by mass %, one or more selected from the group consisting of Ca: 0.0005% to 0.0030% and Mg: 0.0002% to 0.0020%.
5. The ferritic stainless steel according to claim 1, wherein the steel exhibits a thermal fatigue cycle number for failure of 900 or more.
6. The ferritic stainless steel according to claim 1, wherein the steel exhibits a cycle number for breakage in a high temperature fatigue test of more than 15\xd7105.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An interface between a data tier and a client tier of a computing system, comprising:
an interface software component; and
a set of services associated with a data source in the data tier, the services and data source being automatically determined a user of the client tier by the interface component from the user’s identity.
2. The interface of claim 1, wherein the interface software component includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
an artificial intelligence, including:
a rules base; and
an inferencing engine capable operating on the rules base to perform the automatic determination.
3. The interface of claim 1, wherein the interface software component includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
a plurality of lookup tables.
4. The interface of claim 1, wherein the interface comprises a service oriented architecture.
5. The interface of claim 1, wherein the interface software component comprises a plurality of master data pages through which the user interacts.
6. A computer-implemented method for interfacing a data tier and a client tier of a computing system, comprising:
identifying the user of a client;
automatically determining from the user identity a data source and a set of services associated with the data source; and
associating the client with the automatically determined data source and services.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the automatic determination includes inferencing on a plurality of rules to determine the data source and services.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the automatic determination includes consulting a look-up table to determine the data source and services.
9. A computer-readable, program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method for interfacing a data tier and a client tier of a computing system, the method comprising:
identifying the user of a client;
automatically determining from the user identity a data source and a set of services associated with the data source; and
associating the client with the automatically determined data source and services.
10. The computer-readable, program storage device of claim 9, wherein the automatic determination includes inferencing on a plurality of rules to determine the data source and services.
11. The computer-readable, program storage device of claim 9, wherein the automatic determination includes consulting a look-up table to determine the data source and services.
12. A computing system, comprising:
a processor;
a bus system;
a storage, in which resides:
a client that may communicate over the bus system;
a plurality of data sources accessible over the bus system;
a plurality of services that may be invoked and operate over the bus system; and
an interface software component that, when invoked by the processor over the bus system, performs a method including:
identifying the user of a client;
automatically determining from the user identity a data source and a set of services associated with the data source; and
associating the client with the automatically determined data source and services.
13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the interface software component includes:
an interface component; and
a set of services associated with a data source in the data tier, the services and data source being automatically determined a user of the client tier by the interface component from the user’s identity.
14. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the interface software component further includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
an artificial intelligence, including:
a rules base; and
an inferencing engine capable operating on the rules base to perform the automatic determination.
15. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the interface software component further includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
a plurality of lookup tables.
16. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the automatic determination includes inferencing on a plurality of rules to determine the data source and services.
17. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the automatic determination includes consulting a look-up table to determine the data source and services.
18. A computing system, comprising:
a plurality of data sources;
a plurality of clients;
a plurality of services; and
an interface between the data sources and the clients capable of:
identifying the user of a client;
automatically determining from the user identity a data source and a set of services associated with the data source; and
associating the client with the automatically determined data source and services.
19. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the interface software component includes:
an interface component; and
a set of services associated with a data source in the data tier, the services and data source being automatically determined a user of the client tier by the interface component from the user’s identity.
20. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the interface software component further includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
an artificial intelligence, including:
a rules base; and
an inferencing engine capable operating on the rules base to perform the automatic determination.
21. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the interface software component further includes:
a plurality of master data pages; and
a plurality of lookup tables.
22. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the automatic determination includes inferencing on a plurality of rules to determine the data source and services.
23. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the automatic determination includes consulting a look-up table to determine the data source and services.