摘要:
Railroad rails having improved wear resistance, are produced by controlled forced cooling from above the austenite transformation temperature, to produce rails having a fine pearlite metallurgical structure in the head portions (6) of the rails. Apparatus comprising a series of cooling headers (la, 1b) utilizing a liquid cooling medium, such as unheated (i.e. cold, or ambient temperature) water, alternating with a series of air zones (2a, 2b), is preferably arranged in line with the production rolling mill, to receive hot rails as they emerge from the mill, without the necessity of intervening reheating. A roller type restraint system (9) transports the rails through the cooling apparatus, while restraining them in the appropriate position. Each segment of the rail length is intermittently subjected to forced cooling by spray application of the liquid cooling medium, applied to the head portion (6) and the central portion of the base bottom (7) of the rail, with means being provided to prevent spray from impinging on the web and base tips of the rail: During the intervals between applications of forced cooling, heat soaks back from the web portion (4) of the rail, the operating parameters of the system being so arranged that the temperature of the rail remains essentially above the martensite formation temperature. A computerized control system discontinues the application of forced cooling, at a predetermined stop temperature, also above the martensite formation temperature. The apparatus and method are capable of producing rails having the desired fine pearlite structure in the head portion, on a consistent basis, notwithstanding wide variations in temperature between different rails, and different segments of the same rail, as they emerge from a conventional production rolling mill.
摘要:
A method of forming metal to produce structural steel sections, the method involving the step of hot rolling an elongate section in a universal rolling mill stand having a first pair of rolls located at right angles to a second pair of rolls. In order that the finished product can have oppositely disposed flanges (16,16) with side flanges (18,18) parallel to a web portion (14) of the section, the second pair of rolls (12,12) are located in such a position in relation to said first pair of rolls (10,10) that the side flanges (18,18) of the product are rolled between end portions of the first pair of rolls (10,10) and the respective flanks of the second pair of rolls (12,12).