Thin Section Casting Program: Volume 4. Static Cast Product Bending, Straightening, and Rolling. Final Report.

摘要

Statically cast 1/2'', 3/4'', and 1'' thick steel slabs were subjected to hot rolling in a laboratory reversing mill and to simulated coiling-uncoiling on a three-point bender-unbender. Tensile properties and microstructures of hot bands thinner than 0.15'' produced from the statically cast slabs were found to be independent of initial slab thickness and similar to those from conventionally cast 8''-10'' thick slabs. Cold rolled and batch annealed product from the statically cast slabs had mechanical properties equivalent to those of conventionally processed deep-drawing quality steel. Overall, the results of this task indicated that 1/2''-1'' thick steel sections produced in a twin belt caster can be coiled and uncoiled in a hot coiler box downstream of the caster without generating any cracks in the product, and that the total range of hot and cold rolled sheet and strip products with qualities equivalent to those of conventionally produced can be obtained from the 1/2''-1'' thick sections. This report is the fifth of a six volume set on thin section casting.