Abstract:
Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet, made from a steel sheet containing Si and/or Mn, having excellent exfoliation resistance during heavy machining. When a steel sheet containing 0.01% to 0.18% C, 0.02% to 2.0% Si, 1.0% to 3.0% Mn, 0.001% to 1.0% Al, 0.005% to 0.060% P, and 0.01% or less S on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, is annealed and galvanized in a continuous galvanizing line, a temperature region with a furnace temperature of A° C. to B° C. (600≦A≦780 and 800≦B≦900) is performed at an atmosphere dew-point temperature of −5° C. or higher in a heating process.
Abstract:
A high-strength galvanized steel sheet whose base steel is a high-strength steel sheet contains Si, Mn, and B and has good coating adhesiveness. A base steel sheet containing Si, Mn, and B is oxidized at a heating temperature of steel sheet T that satisfies the formula, and then subjected to reduction-annealing and galvanizing T≧58.65×[Si]+29440×[B]−13.59×[O2]+548.1 [Si]: amount of Si in the steel on a mass percent basis [B]: amount of B in the steel on a mass percent basis [O2]: O2 concentration on a volume percent basis in an atmosphere at oxidizing treatment.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for making a metal product with improved surface characteristics. The method provides for treating the metal product through a method including: heating the metal product; exposing the outer surface of the metal product to a controlled environment; and oxidising the outer surface of the metal product. The heating may take the metal product to an elevated temperature, the elevated temperature of the metal product being at least 725° C. The method further includes a controlled environment around the metal product which is controlled with respect to the atmosphere around the metal product, and in particular the nitrogen and/or oxygen and/or hydrogen content thereof. The result is a more consistent surface for elongate metal products, having a more consistent colour to the surface, a more durable and hard wearing surface and/or a surface which is not prone to flaking.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for avoiding surface defects, which are caused by zinc dust, on galvanized metal strip in continuous strip galvanization, in which metal strip which is to be galvanized and is heated in a continuous annealing furnace is moved through a furnace pipe in protective furnace gas and is immersed into a zinc bath, wherein the furnace pipe is provided with injection openings via which the front side and the rear side of the metal strip can be acted upon with protective furnace gas, and wherein extraction openings for extracting protective furnace gas loaded with zinc vapour are arranged adjacent to the injection openings. The apparatus according to the invention is characterized in that a multiplicity of the injection openings are configured and arranged in the furnace pipe in such a manner that the protective furnace gas streaming out of said injection openings is directed onto that surface of the metal strip which faces the respective injection opening with an angle of impact within the range of 70° to 110°, wherein the distance between the respective injection opening and at least one extraction opening assigned thereto is selected in such a manner that, at a predetermined or predeterminable flow velocity of the protective furnace gas emerging from the respective injection opening, an entraining of protective furnace gas, which occurs during movement of the metal strip, in the direction of the zinc bath is opposed.
Abstract:
A method for the manufacturing of high strength cold rolled steel sheets includes continuously annealing a cold rolled steel sheet that has a composition containing C: 0.05-0.3% mass, Si: 0.6-3.0% mass, Mn: 1.0-3.0% mass, P: ≦0.1% mass, S: ≦0.02% mass, Al: 0.01-1% mass, N: ≦0.01% mass, and Fe and inevitable impurities: balance, in a manner such that the cold rolled steel sheet is heated in a furnace using an oxidizing burner to a steel sheet temperature of ≧700° C., then soak-annealed in a reducing atmosphere furnace at 750-900° C., then cooled so the average cooling rate between 500° C. and 100° C. is ≧50° C./s. High-Si cold rolled steel sheets with high strength and good phosphatability while containing Si≧0.6% are obtained without controlling conditions so as to increase the dew point in the reducing atmosphere in the soaking furnace or to increase the vapor hydrogen partial pressure ratio.
Abstract:
A method for producing a steel component with a metallic anti-corrosion coating from a sheet steel product comprising at least 0.4% by weight Mn is disclosed. The sheet steel product is annealed in a continuous furnace under an annealing atmosphere containing up to 25% by volume H2, 0.1% to 10% by volume NH3, H2O, N2, and process-related impurities as the remainder, at a dew point between −50° C. and −5° C. at a temperature of 400 to 1100° C. for 5 to 600 s. The annealed sheet steel product has a 5 to 200 μm thick nitration layer with a particle size finer than the particle size of the inner core layer. Once coated with a metallic protective layer, a blank is separated from the annealed sheet steel product, heated to an austenitising temperature of 780 to 950° C., hot-formed, and cooled so that a hardened structure forms.
Abstract:
The invention deals with a process for manufacturing a hot-dip galvanized or galvannealed steel sheet having a TRIP microstructure, said process comprising the steps consisting in: -providing a steel sheet whose composition comprises, by weight: 0.01≦C≦0.22%, 0.50≦Mn≦2.0%, 0.2≦Si≦2.0%, 0.005≦Al≦2.0%, Mo
Abstract:
Equipment and a method for preheating a continuously moving steel strip, in particular before feeding the same into a continuous annealing or hot-dip galvanizing furnace, involves the continuous movement of the steel strip in a preheating chamber including a preheating circuit having at least one preheating tube, the inner surface of which is in contact with externally-recovered burnt gases (e.g. from the furnace). A portion of the outer surface of the preheating tube is disposed directly opposite a surface of the strip in order to provide a first preheating mode by irradiating heat onto the strip and the walls of the chamber, and a second preheating mode, mainly by convection, of a gas constituting a controlled atmosphere in the preheating chamber.
Abstract:
A continuous annealing and pickling process of flat cold-rolled products, such as stainless steel strips, to obtain a high surface quality product at high production rates and with a low environmental impact. It comprises the following steps: heating, up to a temperature comprised in the range 650-1050° C., in an atmosphere with an oxygen content comprised in the range from 0.5 to 12%; heating for a time comprised from 10 to 200 sec up to a temperature comprised in the range from 650 to 1200° C. in presence of oxidizing agents and/or inert agents; cooling down to temperatures comprised in the range from 650° C. to ambient temperature in presence of oxidizing agents and/or inert agents; thermochemical or electrolytic descaling and finally possible pickling and/or passivation, by means of the use of pickling baths consisting of mineral acid solutions.
Abstract:
An installation for the plasma processing of a continuous material (1) includes an evacuatable discharge chamber (3a, 3b) and a device for setting a gas atmosphere in the discharge chamber (3a, 3b). The device for setting a gas atmosphere includes a prechamber system (10, 11, 12) and a postchamber system (2), with sluice openings between the chambers (2, 3a, 3b, 10, 11, 12). The continuous material (1) is guided with low friction through the prechamber system (10, 11, 12) and the postchamber system (2). The device for setting a gas atmosphere includes a recovery system wherein gas can be recirculated from a postchamber (2a . . . 2k) into a prechamber (10, 11, 12) and/or postchamber (2a . . . 2k) having a higher pressure level so that processing is effected in a gas-saving manner.