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Hot Rolled Carbon & Micro-Alloy Steel Plate Surface Bracking Near Roleld Edges

01/31/2014 12:05 AM

Want to understand from learned Metallurgist or experienced Steel rolling Mill persons the root cause and suggested remedial measure required for eliminating the "near edge surface cracks" observed at hot rolling of continuously cast steel slabs in plain Carbon and micro-alloyed steel plates .

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Re: Hot rolled Carbon & micro-alloy Steel Plate surface cracking near roleld edges

01/31/2014 12:10 AM
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01/31/2014 6:04 AM

I am not a professional in steel rolling but I try to give you a logical answer.

Question: why a steel piece can crack when deformed ?

Answer: when its deformation leads to strains over the acceptable plasticity limit without cracks.

Question: what influences this limit ?

Answer: the steel piece temperature there where the cracks appear: it is too low!

Question: what shall I do to avoid cracks ?

Answer: keep temperature high enough to have a plasticity limit high enough.

Question: why do the cracks appear at the corners or near to?

Answer: because corners are cooled on 2 sides - air on side and roll on the top or bottom being cooled more than the middle or the core their plasticity limit is lower thus the cracks. When passing between the rolls the metal is stressed in 2 directions axial and transverse depending which one is more important the cracks can have different directions normal to the flow lines.

I do not know if this is the real reason but qualitatively it seems to be logical.

This does not mean you should avoid to contact "professionals", if you do please inform me if my reasoning is correct or has flaws, I would appreciate.

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01/31/2014 9:39 AM

Mr. SK Hegde

This is Ron again. In attempting to recieve the maximum yeild of a roll we do not allow enough drop off(cut off) of the edges. I realize management wants the maximum yeild but observation of our rolled plate indicates the cold edges of the plate as it goes thru the hot leveller. This causes edge cracking. All of our test samples are taken on the ends of the plate between the N/S edges of the plate and the centerline of the plate, not on the exact end of the plates. We need to roll the plates slightly longer and wider to end the edge cracking. I realize this loweres product yeild, but if the rework cost more we are not as profitable and we do not deliver to the customer in a timely manner.

(edit): All the above as far as test samples is the samples do not truly represent the performance (tensile/yeild) of the plate edges.

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01/31/2014 4:42 PM

AND HERES PROOF, THIS IS JUST OUT OF THE HOT LEVELER.

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