Development of Centrifugal Cast High Speed Steel Roll with High Wear Resistance for Pre-Finishing Stands of a Hot Rod-Wire Mill

摘要

The present study aims at developing high speed steel ( HSS ) as roll materials to replace traditional roll materials such as the alloy cast iron and powder metallurgical (PM) hard alloy, because lowcost alley cast iron rolls have poor wear resistance and the cost of high-quality PM hard alloy rolls is too high to be accepted by some users. By means of a centrifugal casting method, HSS rolls with excellent wear resistance have been developed. Its hardness is 65 ～ 67HRC, and its variation is smaller than 2HRC ; its impact toughness excels 15J/cm2. Using pre-finishing stands of a high-speed hot wire-rod rolling mill, the wear raze of HSS rolls per one thousand ton of steel is 0. 25mm. However, the manufacturing burden of HSS rolls is obviously lower than that of PM hard alloy rolls; it is only 30% of that of PM hard alloy rolls.