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Effect of Temper Rolling on Tensile Properties of Low-Si AI-Killed Sheet Steel MA Qing-long l
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WANG Dong-cheng' ,
LIU Hong-min",
LU Hai-rning''
O. Education Ministry Engineering Research Center of Rolling Equipment and Complete Technology, State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University. Qinhuangdao 066004, Hebei , China; 2. Cold Strip Factory of Lingyuan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd, Lingyuan 122500. Liaoning. China) Abstract: The tensile properties of steel after temper rollingare affected by the reduction; low-Si Al-killed sheet steel was taken to study the effect of temper rolling on the tensile properties. The results indicate that the yield strength first decreases with the increase of reduction. and then increases. The relationship between the yield strength and the reduction can be expressed using quadratic function. The tensile strength increases with the increase of the reduction, while the total elongation decreases with the increase of the reduction. and the relationship between them and the reduction can be expressed using power function. Under the same condition, the results also indicate that the yield strength and tensile strength of steels across the rolling direction are all larger than those along the rolling direction; there is no obvious distinction between the total elongation along the rolling direction and that across the rolling direction. Key words: temper rolling; yield strength; tensile strength; total elongation
The essential of temper rolling is a cold rolling process to annealed strip steel with slight reduction (0 - 3 %). The purpose is to improve the flatness, make the strip steel get a certain surface roughness and smoothness, improve the mechanical properties, and erase the yield point ios'". The reduction of temper rolling has significant effects[2-4] , therefore, the preset of reduction is restricted not only by the flatness and surface roughness of strip steel, but also by the mechanical properties. Little effort has been devoted to the relationship between the temper rolling reduction and the tensile properties, and most of them focus on qualitative analysis[5-7]. Low-Si Al-killed sheet steel is taken to study the relationship between the temper rolling reduction and tensile properties of strip steel in this article, which is the main product of Lingyuan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd, to get the relationship between the reduction and the tensile properties such as yield strength, tensile strength, and total elongation
by regression analysis, and to conclude the mathematical model, which can guide the preset of temper rolling reduction.
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Experimental Procedure
The low-Si Al-killed steel used in this study is 195LD, which is obtained from Cold Strip Factory of Lingyuan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd. Its chemical compositions are given in Table 1 (in mass percent). The experiment is performed by WDWI020 electronic tensile machine of Yanshan University, and the load speed is 1 mm/min. The range of test samples reductions is 0 - 3 %, the thickness value of steel is 1. 0 mm , and the gauge length is 50 mrn, To compare, the test samples are cut along the rolling direction (lengthwTable 1 wCC) ~O.
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with different reductions. The samples before and after the tensile experiment are shown in Fig. 1.
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Contrast of samples before and after the tensile experiment
appears. That is same for the variation of the transverse yield strength along with the change of the reduction. The results also indicate that the yield strength of transverse direction is larger than that of lengthways direction for about 25 MPa in the same condition. By regression analysis, the relationships between the yield strength and the reduction of lengthways direction and transverse direction can be expressed as Eqn. (1) and Eqn. (2) , (1:=252.96-27. 48E+13. 36E2 (1) rfi=277. 57-25. 99€+12. 35€2 (2) where, (1: is the lengthways yield strength, rfi is the transverse yield strength, and e is the temper rolling reduction. The first term on the right hand side of Eqn, (1) is 252. 96, which is quite close to the average yield strength of the lengthways direction (258. 62 MPa) without temper rolling. Similarly, the first term on the right hand side of Eqn, (2) is 277.57, which is quite close to the average yield strength of the tran-
Results and Discussion Yield strength
A notable influence of the reduction on the mechanical properties of the strip steel is to change the yield strength; an appropriate reduction can erase the yield point jog, and avoid to appear slip line during machining again[8]. The variation of the lengthways yield strength and transverse yield strength along with the reduction is shown in Fig. 2. When the value of temper rolling reduction is less than 1 %, the lengthways yield strength decreases with the increase of reduction; it decreases by about 12 MPa when the reduction is 1. 0 %, and the yield strength reaches minimal value here. The reason why the yield strength decreases is that the dislocation breaks the bondage of caldwell air mass. When the value of reduction is larger than 1 %, the yield strength increases with the increase of reduction; it is because the dislocation pinning increases gradually with the increase of reduction, and work hardening
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Tensile strength The tensile strength of lengthways direction and transverse direction under different reductions is plotted in Fig. 3. The tensile strength always increases with the increase of reduction; it increases by about 25 MPa when the reduction increases to 3 %. The tensile strength of the transverse direction is larger than that of the lengthways direction for about 4 MPa in the same condition. The relationships between the tensile strength and the reduction of lengthways direction and transverse direction are obtained as Eqn, (4) and Eqn. (5), (4) e1b = 332.08+ 10. 43eo. 77 (5) ~=336. 95+10. 15eo. 84 where, C1b is the lengthways tensile strength, and ~ is the transverse tensile strength.
sverse direction (279. 32 MPa) without temper rolling. Therefore, the relationship between the yield strength and the reduction of 195LD can be expressed as Eqn, (3) . C1. =C1~ K\e+ K 2e 2 (3) where, C1. is the yield strength of strip steel after temper rolling; C1~ is the yield strength of strip steel without temper rolling, and K\ and K 2 are constants. The yield strength of strip steel can reach minimum when the right reduction is adopted, which is relative to the chemical constitution, smelting manner, hot rolling condition, and reduction of cold rolling. Here, the yield strength reach minimum
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The first term on the right hand side of Eqn, (4) is 332. 08, which is quite close to the average tensile strength (332.74 MPa) of lengthways direction; similarly, the first term on the right hand side of Eqn, (5) is 336. 95, which is quite close to the average tensile strength (337.68 MPa) of transverse direction. Thus, the relationship between the tensile strength and the reduction can be expressed as Eqn. (6) , C1b=C1~+KgeK4 (6) where, C1b is the tensile strength after temper rolling; C1~ is the tensile strength without temper rolling, and Kg and K 4 are constants.
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Total elongation The total elongation of lengthways direction and transverse direction decreases with the increase of reduction; it decreases by about 3. 5 % when the reduction increases to 3% (Fig. 4). There is no obvious difference between the lengthways total elongation and the transverse total elongation. The rela-
tionship between the total elongation and the reduction of lengthways direction and transverse direction can be expressed as Eqn. (7) and Eqn. (8) , 8x = 35. 93-1. 36eo. 8\ (7) o. 88 (8) s, = 35. 89 -1. 43e where, 8x is the lengthways total elongation, and s, is the transverse total elongation. The first term on the right hand side of Eqn. (7) is 35. 93, which is quit close to the average lengthways total elongation (36.23%) of strip steel. Similarly, the first term on the right hand side of Eqn. (8) is 35. 89, which is quite close to the average transverse total elongation (35. 14 %) of strip steel. Thus, the relationship between the total elongation and the reduction of strip steel 195LD can be expressed as Eqn. (9), 8=8o + K s e K6 (9) where, 8 is the total elongation by temper rolling, 80 is the total elongation without temper rolling, and K, and K 6 are constants.
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2. 4 Contrast of experimental results and the calculated data The tensile properties under different reductions are forecasted using the formulas, and by contrasting with the experimental data, the results are Table 2
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Conclusions
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