Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a seamless steel pipe capable of suppressing a nonuniform wall thickness produced in a pressing down direction of a mandrel mill as well as a nonuniform wall thickness produced at positions displaced from the pressing down direction, comprising the steps of rolling a seamless steel pipe in a production line comprising the mandrel mill (11) having a plurality of stands (111 to 115) with hole type rolls continuously disposed with the pressing down directions thereof differentiated from each other, measuring the wall thickness of the rolled steel pipe (14) in a circumferential direction, and based on the measured results, individually controlling the both side closed amounts of the hole type roll at least in the pair of final pressing down stands (114, 115) of the mandrel (11) so that the nonuniform wall thickness becomes minimum.
Abstract:
A rolling control method for a mandrel mill, a rolling control device, a control program, and a seamless tube. In the method, the press-down position of a first hole type rolling roll disposed on a finish stand (#i) is displaced outward when a raw tube (S) is rolled on the finish stand (#i) among stands forming the mandrel mill (M). Also, the press-down position of a second hole type rolling roll disposed on an upstream side stand (#(i-2)) is displaced outward when a raw tube is rolled on the upstream side stand (#(i-2)) with the same press-down direction as the finish stand (#i) positioned nearest the finish stand (#i). Accordingly, when the seamless tube is manufactured by using the mandrel mill, a part or all of the end part of the raw tube can be accurately rolled to a specified thickness.
Abstract:
With a powdered lubricant composition by the invention, in addition to the blending of one of anhydrous, pentahydrate or decahydrate salt in sodium borate and one of sodium or calcium salt of fat acid, mixing calcium or lithium carbonate as an auxiliary lubricant can prevent sodium borate (Na 2 B 4 O 7 ), solidified as amorphous after a tube-making process, from moisture absorbance, drying and crystallization to thereby suppress the formation of Na 2 B 4 O 7 · 5H 2 O on inside surfaces of finished-product tubes, thus enabling to circumvent occurrence of the white scales. Concurrently, they provide good diffusivity toward the working surface of workpiece, thus enabling to prolong a life of the mandrel bar and to widely be adopted as the most suitable powdered lubricant for manufacturing seamless tubes by Mandrel Mill rolling.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot forming which makes it possible to provide lubricity at 80°C or more without being peeled or washed by the roll cooling water, and which is easily washed under 40°C without having water resistance. The lubricant composition for hot forming of the present invention comprises: a solid lubricant from 10 to 40% by mass; water-dispersible synthetic resin from 5 to 20 % by mass; inorganic acid amine salt from 0.5 to 5% by mass; and water from 45 to 80% by mass.
Abstract:
A detection device and a detection method for automatically detecting flaws occurring on a raw tube manufactured by rolling a hollow shell by using a mandrel mill. The flaw detection device (100) comprises a wall thickness gauge (1) disposed on the extension side of the mandrel (M) and measuring the wall thicknesses of the hollow shell (P) in a press-down direction on the stands (#1 to #5) of the mandrel, rolling load measuring devices (2) measuring rolling loads on the stands (#1 to #5), and an judgement device (3) for judging whether flaws are present or absent on the raw tube based on the measured wall thickness values of the hollow shell (P) in the press-down direction and the measured rolling load values on the stands. The judgement device (3) judges that flows occur on the raw tube when the measured wall thickness value of the hollow shell in the press-down direction on any of the stands (#1 to #5) partially varies a predetermined amount or more and the measured rolling load value of the hollow shell in the press-down direction on any of the stands (#1 to #5) partially varies a predetermined amount or more.
Abstract:
This invention provides a process for producing a seamless steel pipe that can produce a seamless steel pipe while effectively suppressing a failure of a mandrel bar to be withdrawn after stretch-rolling of a rolling material formed of a high alloy steel containing not less than 5% of Cr. In the production process, a seamless steel pipe comprising a high alloy steel containing not less than 5% of Cr is produced by stretch-rolling a rolling material (3) using a retained mandrel mill (1) for maintaining the speed of a mandrel bar (2) in an axial direction at a constant value while regulating the movement speed of the mandrel bar (2) by the retained mandrel mill (1) so as to satisfy a requirement represented by formula 0.15 ≤ Vb/{(Vi + Ve)/2} ≤ 0.70 wherein Vb represents the movement speed of the mandrel bar (2); Vi represents the speed of the rolling material (3) on the inlet side of the retained mandrel mill (1); and Ve represents the speed of the rolling material (3) on the outlet side of the retained mandrel mill (1).
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a seamless tube by applying drawing/rolling and fixed diameter rolling to a raw seamless tube, comprising the steps of obtaining, beforehand, the wall thickness varying portion of the seamless tube where the thickness of the seamless tube varies in the circumferential direction, and drawing/rolling the seamless tube so that the thickness of the drawn/rolled raw seamless tube at a portion corresponding to the wall thickness varying portion is differentiated from the thickness of the seamless tube at general portions other than that portion to suppress the occurrence of the thick wall varying portion in the seamless tube. Thus, the wall thickness of the seamless tube is prevented from being partially varied in the circumferential direction.