Abstract:
A process for producing a ferritically rolled steel strip, in which liquid steel is cast in a continuous-casting machine (1) to form a slab and, utilizing the casting heat, is conveyed through a furnace device (7) undergoes preliminary rolling in a preliminary rolling device (10) and, in a final rolling device (14), is finishing-rolled to form the ferritic steel strip with a desired final thickness, in which process, in a completely continuous, an endless or a semi-endless process, the slab is rolled in the austenitic range in the preliminary rolling device (10) and, after rolling in the austenitic range, is cooled to a temperature at which the steel has a substantially ferritic structure, and the strip is rolled, in the final rolling device, at speeds which substantially correspond to the speed at which it enters the final rolling device (14) and the following thickness reduction stages, and in at least one stand of the final rolling device (14), the strip is ferritically rolled at a temperature of between 850° C. and 600° C., and after leaving the final rolling device (14), is cooled rapidly to a temperature below 500° C. in order substantially to avoid recrystallization.
Abstract:
Steel strips and methods for producing steel strips are provided. In an illustrated embodiment, a method includes continuously casting molten low carbon steel into a strip and hot rolling the cast strip within a temperature range such that the strip passes through the Ar3 transformation temperature from austenite to ferrite under strain during rolling, thereby producing a strip having a yield strength above 400 Mpa and an elongation in excess of 30%. The cast steel strip has desired microstructures.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for producing strips of homogenous structures and characteristics made of non-alloyed and low-alloyed steel by continuous hot rolling in several roll passes in the austenitic region and subsequently in the ferritic region, as well as coiling. The invention is characterised in that continuous-cast strip and/or strip rough rolled in the austenitic region, starting with a temperature T≧Ar3+30° C., with a total degree of deformation of eh≧30% is rolled in two or several roll passes in the austenitic region and in that the rolling stock is intensively cooled after every roll pass until the ferritic transformation has been completed, after which the rolling stock is end rolled to final thickness in the ferritic range in several passes with a total degree of deformation eh≧60%.
Abstract:
Method for the manufacture of a steel strip, wherein molten steel is cast into a slab, conveyed through a furnace, roughed in a roughing apparatus and finish-rolled in a finishing apparatus. The method comprises an endless or semi-endless process having either step a or step b, wherein a and b respectively comprise (a) manufacturing a ferritically rolled steel strip, wherein the slab is rolled in the roughing apparatus in the austenitic range and then cooled to a ferritic structure, and wherein the strip is rolled in the finishing apparatus at speeds essentially corresponding to the entry speed into the finishing apparatus, and (b) manufacturing an austenitically rolled steel strip, wherein the strip leaving the roughing apparatus is heated to the austenitic range and is rolled in the finishing apparatus and then cooled down to the ferritic range. In both step a and b, there is no material connection between the steel in the continuous casting machine and the steel being rolled in the finishing apparatus, and the strip is fed from the roughing apparatus to the finishing apparatus without intermediate storage. Additional steps include cutting the ferritically or austenitically rolled strip, after reaching the desired finished thickness, to portions of the desired length, and coiling the cut portions.
Abstract:
In the manufacture of steel strip or sheet, suitable for use as deep-drawing steel for the manufacture of can bodies by deep-drawing and ironing, a low-carbon steel is provided in the form of a slab, the slab is rolled in the austenitic region to reduce its thickness to a transfer thickness, the rolled slab is cooled having the transfer thickness into the ferritic region, and the rolled slab is rolled in the ferritic region to a finished thickness. To provide a steel having reduced tendency to "earing" in can body manufacture, the transfer thickness is less than 1.8 mm and the total thickness reduction in the ferritic region from the transfer thickness to the finished thickness is less than 90%.
Abstract:
A hot strip mill having a final reducing stand and runout cooling means downstream of the reducing stand includes an incubator capable of coiling and decoiling the hot strip. The incubator is located intermediate the runout cooling means. In a preferred form the final reducing stand is a hot reversing mill. A second incubator and/or a temper mill and/or a slitter may be positioned downstream of the first incubator. The method of rolling includes isothermally treating the strip within a predetermined time and temperature range in the incubator prior to subsequent processing. The subsequent processing may include any one or more of the following: further deformation by cold rolling, temper rolling or cooling at a desired heat loss rate.
Abstract:
In a ferritic stainless steel sheet, the arithmetic average roughness Ra is 0.2 μm or more and 1.2 μm or less. In addition, the dull pattern transfer rate on the steel sheet surface is 15% or more and 70% or less. Furthermore, micropits with a depth of 0.5 μm or more and an open area of 10 μm2 or more which are formed on the steel sheet surface have an existing density of 10.0 or less per 0.01 mm2 and an open area ratio of 1.0% or less. In addition, a film formed on the steel sheet surface is constituted from an oxide containing SiO2 as a main constituent, which oxide contains at least Si, N, Al, Mn, Cr, Fe, Nb, Ti and O as film-forming elements other than C, wherein the Si content is 10 at % or more, and the N content is 10 at % or less.
Abstract:
A process and device for producing a high-strength steel strip. In the process, liquid steel is cast in at least one continuous-casting machine (1) with one or more strands to form a slab and, utilizing the casting heat, is conveyed through a furnace device (7). The slab undergoes preliminary rolling in a preliminary rolling device (10) and, in a final rolling device (14), is finishing-rolled to form a steel strip with the desired final thickness. In a continuous, endless or semi-endless process, the slab undergoes preliminary rolling in, essentially, the austenitic range in the preliminary rolling device (10) and, in the final rolling device (14), is rolled in the austenitic range or, in at lest one stand of the final rolling device (14), is rolled in the two-phase austenitic-ferritic range, the austenitic or austenitic, ferritic rolled strip. After leaving the final rolling device (14), the strip is cooled rapidly to obtain the desired structure.
Abstract:
Process for producing a steel strip or sheet, in which liquid steel is cast in a continuous-casting machine to form a thin plate and, while making use of the casting heat, is fed through a furnace device, is roughed in a roughing stand to a pass-over thickness and is rerolled in a finishing rolling stand to form a steel strip or sheet of the desired final thickness, in which (a) to produce a ferritically rolled steel strip, the strip, the plate or a part thereof is fed without interruption at least from the furnace device, at speeds which essentially correspond to the speed of entry into the roughing stand and the following reductions in thickness, from the roughing stand to a processing device which is disposed downstream of the finishing rolling stand, the strip coming out of the roughing stand being cooled to a temperature at which the steel has an essentially ferritic structure; (b) to produce an austenitically rolled steel strip, the strip coming out of the roughing roll is brought to or held at a temperature in the austenitic range, and in the finishing rolling stand it is rolled to the final thickness essentially in the austenitic field and is then cooled, after this rolling, to the ferritic field.
Abstract:
Continuous casting machine for the casting of a thin slab with a thickness of less than 150 mm comprising a vacuum tundish having a first atmospheric chamber (7) and a second low pressure or vacuum chamber (1) hydraulically connected to the first chamber and purging means (11) for introducing a purging gas into the liquid steel after it has entered the first chamber but before it entered the second chamber.