Flat-Rolled Steel Processes

Advanced Technologies

Vladimir B. Ginzburg

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781420072921
• eBook ISBN: 9781420072938
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Throughout the last two decades, the flat-steel production industry has experienced great success with the introduction of new technologies and manufacturing advances for both hot and cold steel-rolling. These improvements are resulting in significantly reduced production costs and better product quality. Recent consolidation of the steel industry-

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Editor
• Contributors
• Section I: New Concepts and Modernization of Rolling Mills
• Chapter 1. A History of Minimills Producing Flat-Rolled Steel
• Chapter 2. Review of Casting and Rolling Lines with Thin- and Medium-Slab Casters
• Chapter 3. Methodology and Results of Major Hot Strip Mill Modernization Projects
• Chapter 4. Plate Mill Upgrades for High-Strength Products
• Chapter 5. Roughing Mill Work Rolls for Hot Strip Production
• Chapter 6. High-Speed Steel Rolls: The Last Frontier in Hot Steel Rolling
• Chapter 7. Tunnel Furnace Roll Options and Energy Considerations
• Chapter 8. Descaling of Hot-Rolled Strip
• Section II: Modeling of Flat Rolling Processes
• Chapter 9. Modeling for Reheat Furnace Practices
• Chapter 10. Improvement of Schedules for Hot Rolling of Thin Wide Strips
• Chapter 11. Width Variation Behavior during Hot Rolling
• Chapter 12. Parameter Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification in Rolling
• Chapter 13. Simulation for the Dynamic Behavior of Strips Running on Hot Run-Out Tables
• Chapter 14. Laminar Flow-Cooling of Wide Heavy-Thickness Strip in a Hot Rolling Mill
• Chapter 15. Consideration of Microstructure Evolution in Hot Strip Mill Automation
• Chapter 16. Novel Mathematical Models for Cold-Rolling Process
• Chapter 17. Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Cold-Rolling Lubricants and Its Mechanism in Nonconformal Rolling Contacts
• Section III: Measurement, Automation, and Process Control
• Chapter 18. Multivariable Hot Strip Mill Control
• Chapter 19. Finishing Mill Predictive Temperature Control
• Chapter 20. Digital Visual Inspection of Coils
• Chapter 21. Yield Improvement through Better Crop Optimization
• Chapter 22. State-of-the-Art, Noncontact Infrared, Laser, and Microwave Intelligent Sensors and Systems for Steel Mills
• Chapter 23. Cold-Rolling Mill Vibration and Its Impact on Productivity and Product Quality
• Chapter 24. IMPOC : An Online Material Properties Measurement System
• Chapter 25. Technologies for the Prediction and Control of Microstructural Changes and Mechanical Properties
• Chapter 26. Metallurgical, Modeling, and Software Engineering Issues in the Further Development of the Steel Mill Level 2 Models
• Section IV: Strip Profile and Flatness Control
• Chapter 27. Methods of Describing, Assessing, and Influencing Shape Deviations in Strips
• Chapter 28. Local Shape Defects in Cold Rolling: Simulation, Causes Identification, and Reduction
• Chapter 29. Fundamentals of Online Flatness Measuring Devices
• Chapter 30. Recent Developments in Strip-Profile Calculation
• Chapter 31. Hot Band Profile Irregularities Related to Thermal Contour of Work Rolls*
• Chapter 32. Analysis of the Transverse Temperature Distribution in the Hot Strip Mill of a Compact Strip Production Plant
• Chapter 33. Innovations in Shape Measurement and Control for Cold-Rolled Flat Strip Products
• Back cover