Development of Tailored Structure and Tensile Properties of Thermomechanical Treated Micro Alloyed Low Carbon Dual Phase Steel — Oak Academic Publishing
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Development of Tailored Structure and Tensile Properties of Thermomechanical Treated Micro Alloyed Low Carbon Dual Phase Steel
Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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EZZ Steel, Cairo, Egypt
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Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
1 Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
2 EZZ Steel, Cairo, Egypt
3 Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
4 Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Direct hot rolled dual phase steel production represents a challenging route, compared with cold rolled and intercritical annealing process, due to complex and sophisticated control of the hot strip mill processing parameters. Instead, high technology compact slab production plant offers economic advantages, adequate control and prompt use of the advanced thermomechanical controlled rolling. The current work aims to obtain different structures and tensile properties by physical simulation of direct hot rolled niobium micro alloyed dual phase low carbon steel by varying the metallurgical temperatures of hot strip mill plant. This starts with adaptation of the chemical analysis of a low carbon content to fall far from the undesired peritectic region to avoid slab cracking during casting. Thermodynamic and kinetics calculations by Thermo-Calc 2020 and JMat pro software are used to define the transformation’s temperatures Ae1 and Ae3 as well as processing temperatures; namely of reheating, finishing rolling, step cooling and coiling temperatures. The results show that the increase of finishing rolling temperature from 780 ° C to 840 ° C or decreasing either of step cooling duration at ferrite bay from 7 to 4 seconds, enhances yield and tensile strengths, all due to more martensite volume fraction formation. The yield and tensile strengths also increase with decreasing coiling temperature from 330 ° C to 180 ° C, which is explained due to the increase of dislocation densities resulted from the sudden shape change during martensite formation at the lower coiling temperature in additional to the self-tempering of martensite formed at higher coiling temperatures which soften the dual phase steel.
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