METHOD FOR PIERCE-ROLLING BY MANNESMANN PIERCER

摘要

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of defects such as cracks and spills and to manufacture seamless steel tubes with high productivity by heating a billet at a temp. lower than a boundary temp. of a dual phase region and pierce- rolling the billet by specifying an average deformation speed. CONSTITUTION:A martensitic stainless steel billet containing, by wt., 0.12-0.30% C and 11-14% Cr is heated at a temp. at least 30 deg.C lower than a boundary temp. between an austenitic single phase region and a ferrite-austenite dual phase region alpha+beta in the equilibrium diagram. Then, an average deformation speed having a condition shown by the equation is set to be =1.3sec-1 and the billet is pierce-rolled by a Mannesmann piercer. Thus, stainless steel seamless tubes are obtained with the high yield.