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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a stainless steel seamless pipe for use as oil well piping that has a wall thickness surpassing 25.4 mm and exhibits high strength, toughness and corrosion resistance.SOLUTION: A stainless steel seamless pipe is obtained by hot rolling a steel material whose composition includes, by mass, 0.005-0.06% of C, 0.05-0.5% of Si, 0.2-1.8% of Mn, 15.5-18.0% of Cr, 1.5-5.0% of Ni, 0.02-0.2% of V, 0.002-0.05% of Al, 0.01-0.15% of N, and 0.006% or less of O, and additionally includes one or more of 1.0-3.5% of Mo, 3.0% or less of W, and 3.5% or less of Cu so as to satisfy [Cr+0.65Ni+0.60Mo+0.30W+0.55Cu-20C≥19.5] and [Cr+Mo+0.50W+0.30Si-43.5C-0.4Mn-Ni-0.3Cu-9N≥11.5]. On this occasion, hot rolling is carried out so as to achieve a total rolling reduction rate of 30% or more in the temperature range of 1100-900°C. After completion of the hot rolling, cooling is carried out, and a hardening-tempering treatment or tempering treatment is performed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive high strength steel that stably combines high strength of at least YS:120 ksi class and SSC excellent resistance.SOLUTION: A steel includes, by mass, 0.25-0.35% of C; 0.10-0.30% of Si; at most 0.80% of Mn; at most 0.010% of P; at most 0.003% of S; 0.003-0.1% of Al; at most 0.0040% of N; 0.5-0.7% of Cr; 0.5-1.0% of Mo; 0.05-0.8% of Cu; 0.015-0.030% of Ti; 0.005-0.025% of Nb; 0.05-0.10% of V; and 0.0005-0.0015% of B, and includes: a composition that contains P, Ti and N, which are regulated to satisfy P/Ti*
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple method for determining chemical conversion treatability of steel, and a method for producing steel excellent in chemical conversion treatability utilizing the same.SOLUTION: Target steel is immersed in a chemical solution (chemical conversion treatment solution), and the immersing potential of the steel is continuously measured from the start of immersion to measure the time required for the immersing potential of the steel to be the same as the natural immersing potential in the chemical solution. The obtained time is compared with the appropriate treatment time determined for performing the chemical conversion treatment of steel using a chemical solution (chemical conversion treatment solution) to be used, and when the obtained time is 2/3 or less of the appropriate treatment time, the steel is determined to be steel excellent in chemical conversion treatability. Further, when the method for determining the chemical conversion treatability of steel is used to determine the chemical conversion treatability of target steel, and the steel is determined to be steel poor in chemical conversion treatability, improvement treatment of the chemical conversion treatability is performed to form steel excellent in chemical conversion treatability. A preferred improvement treatment of chemical conversion treatability includes the treatment of applying cold rolling, a shot blast, pickling, polishing/grinding, and the like.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an electric resistance welded tube having very excellent welding quality by measuring the length of a narrow space part from a welding point to a V-converging position with high accuracy, and setting the welding heat input so that the length of the narrow space part becomes optimum. SOLUTION: The image of a part in a vicinity of a welding point 3 of a workpiece 10 is continuously picked up for the time of ≥10ms at the image pickup speed of ≤1/200 second by a high speed camera 6, the length of a narrow space part 4 from the welding point 3 to the V-converging position 7 is measured based on the picked-up image. The welding heat input of the electric resistance welding is adjusted so that the measured length L(mm) of the narrow space part satisfies the inequalities (1) 0.259t+0.013d-0.00548v-6.16
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production method of a high strength stainless steel pipe that is for imparting a stable product quality to a high Cr based seamless steel pipe in which hardening and temper treatments are performed; and a heat treatment equipment line of the high strength stainless steel pipe.SOLUTION: In online heat treatment equipment of a seamless steel pipe, low temperature cooling equipment 4 in which cooling can be performed to at most 20°C is disposed in one end or a part of a heat treatment carrier line 3 disposed between hardening equipment 2 and a temper heating furnace 5, in a heat treatment of a steel pipe including Cr of at least 14%, hardening cooling to at least 50°C is performed, continuously cooling to at least 20°C is performed, then a temper treatment is performed, and a stable quality high strength stainless steel pipe is produced.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thick-walled high-strength seamless steel pipe having excellent sour resistance.SOLUTION: The steel pipe is obtained by subjecting a raw steel pipe to quenching and tempering to regulate the treated steel pipe so as to have a yield strength exceeding 450 MPa and at least the outermost surface or innermost surface of the pipe so as to have Vickers hardness HV5, which can be measured at a load of 5 kgf (testing force, 49 N), of 250 HV5 or less. This regulation is accomplished by subjecting the steel pipe which has been quenched to working processing in which the surface layer of the steel pipe is ground by 0.3 mm or more in depth, in the thickness direction, from the surface. Alternatively, the regulation is attained by conducting the quenching in such a manner that the raw steel pipe is held in the air atmosphere at an elevated temperature not lower than the Ac3 transformation point for 120 seconds or longer and thereafter the steel pipe is water-cooled in a nucleate boiling state or is water-cooled first in a film boiling state and then in a nucleate boiling state. With such quenching, it is possible to obtain a steel pipe in which each surface layer has hardness reduced to the value of 250 HV5 or below and which has an M-shaped hardness distribution in which a position where the hardness is maximum is present at a position on the way to the center of the wall thickness from the surface, or to obtain a steel pipe that has a U-shaped or flat hardness distribution in which the hardness of the surface layers is highest but not higher than the value of 250 HV5. Thus, the obtained steel pipe has significantly improved sour resistance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high workability and high strength steel pipe having excellent chemical treatment property, and to provide a method for producing the same. SOLUTION: When a steel plate comprising, by mass, ≥0.05% C, >0.7% Si and ≥0.8% Mn is used as a mother plate, and is worked into a pipe shape, the total of the absolute values of surface strain in the circumferential direction respectively applied in each step of the working is controlled to ≥5% by nominal strain. In this way, even if a welded steel pipe is produced using a steel plate comprising >0.7% Si, the steel pipe having satisfactory chemical treatment property is obtained without performing mechanical grinding, chemical pickling treatment or the like. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a working method of a high-strength member having a higher Si-content than 0.7 mass%. SOLUTION: Working process is applied to a high-strength steel material containing ≥0.05 mass% C, >0.7 mass% Si and ≥0.8 mass% Mn, to form a member with a predetermined shape, wherein working amount is adjusted such that sum of absolute values of surface strains in a predetermined direction respectively imparted in each process of working is 5% or more in a nominal strain. Even when Si is contained in an amount of >0.7 mass%, the member is made to have a remarkably improved chemical conversion property without specifically carrying out mechanical grinding, chemical pickling processing or the like. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low alloy high strength seamless steel pipe for an oil well having excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance and its manufacturing method.SOLUTION: A seamless steel pipe contains a composition comprising, by mass%, C:0.15 to 0.50%, Si:0.1 to 1.0%, Mn:0.3 to 1.0%, P:0.015% or less, S:0.005% or less, Al:0.01 to 0.10%, N:0.01% or less, Cr:0.1 to 1.7%, Mo:0.4 to 1.1%, V:0.01 to 0.12%, Nb:0.01 to 0.08%, Ti:0.005 to 0.03% and B:0.0005 to 0.0030% and has each segregation degree of Mn, Mo and Cr in a segregation part of 1.5 or less. A manufacturing method of the seamless steel pipe includes applying, to the seamless steel pipe, segregation lowering treatment for heating the seamless steel pipe at T (°C) in range of 1100°C to 1300°C and maintaining for a definite period of time and then cooling it, and thereafter, applying hardening treatment one or more times and then tempering treatment.