Low-carbon steel is widely used for household appliance and automotive panel steel because of its excellent plasticity.Unfortunately,yield point phenomena easily appear in the low-carbon steel produced by a continuous...Low-carbon steel is widely used for household appliance and automotive panel steel because of its excellent plasticity.Unfortunately,yield point phenomena easily appear in the low-carbon steel produced by a continuous annealing process and cause degradation to the surface quality during processing.The effect of the coiling temperature(600-750℃)and annealing temperature(740-820℃)on the yield point behavior is studied.Tensile tests show that coiling temperature has a greater effect on yield point elongation(YPE)and aging index(AI)than the annealing temperature.Microstructure observations show that coiling temperature at 750℃would make the micron-sized carbides appearing at the grain boundary disappear and a number of dispersed nanoscale carbides precipitate in grain interior,corresponding to the highest solid solution carbon content in the matrix of 750℃coiled sample.The experimental results suggest that AI rather than YPE has a positive relationship with the solid solution carbon content of the low-carbon steel.And YPE has a positive relationship with the upper/lower yield strength.展开更多
Direct strip casting(DSC)is one of the cutting-edge technologies for the steel industry in the twenty-first century.Under the background of carbon peak and carbon neutrality,DSC technology has a bright future of appli...Direct strip casting(DSC)is one of the cutting-edge technologies for the steel industry in the twenty-first century.Under the background of carbon peak and carbon neutrality,DSC technology has a bright future of applications as it requires less production time and space with reduced energy consumption.Owing to its sub-rapid cooling rate during solidification and low reduction during hot rolling,DSC process exhibits a series of unique physical metallurgy characteristics.The process characteristics of DSC process and the microstructural evolution during the thermomechanical processing of low-carbon microalloyed steel are reviewed.The effects of hot rolling,cooling,coiling temperatures and microalloying elements on the microstructure and mechanical properties are then discussed.Finally,the future development orientations of DSC technology are suggested to fully utilize its unique features for the enhancement of its competitiveness and for the promotion of carbon neutrality of the steel industry.展开更多
基金This work was financially supported by the Joint Fund of Iron and Steel Research(No.U1660103)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51574162)+2 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFE0306102)3DAP measurements were made in the Instrumental Analysis and Research Center at Shanghai UniversityThe authors would like to express sincere thanks for their support.
文摘Low-carbon steel is widely used for household appliance and automotive panel steel because of its excellent plasticity.Unfortunately,yield point phenomena easily appear in the low-carbon steel produced by a continuous annealing process and cause degradation to the surface quality during processing.The effect of the coiling temperature(600-750℃)and annealing temperature(740-820℃)on the yield point behavior is studied.Tensile tests show that coiling temperature has a greater effect on yield point elongation(YPE)and aging index(AI)than the annealing temperature.Microstructure observations show that coiling temperature at 750℃would make the micron-sized carbides appearing at the grain boundary disappear and a number of dispersed nanoscale carbides precipitate in grain interior,corresponding to the highest solid solution carbon content in the matrix of 750℃coiled sample.The experimental results suggest that AI rather than YPE has a positive relationship with the solid solution carbon content of the low-carbon steel.And YPE has a positive relationship with the upper/lower yield strength.
文摘Direct strip casting(DSC)is one of the cutting-edge technologies for the steel industry in the twenty-first century.Under the background of carbon peak and carbon neutrality,DSC technology has a bright future of applications as it requires less production time and space with reduced energy consumption.Owing to its sub-rapid cooling rate during solidification and low reduction during hot rolling,DSC process exhibits a series of unique physical metallurgy characteristics.The process characteristics of DSC process and the microstructural evolution during the thermomechanical processing of low-carbon microalloyed steel are reviewed.The effects of hot rolling,cooling,coiling temperatures and microalloying elements on the microstructure and mechanical properties are then discussed.Finally,the future development orientations of DSC technology are suggested to fully utilize its unique features for the enhancement of its competitiveness and for the promotion of carbon neutrality of the steel industry.
