Metallurgical Design of Flat Rolled Steels

This book outlines the basic principles of metallurgical design of flat rolled steels to obtain flat steel products with required metallurgical and mechanical properties. These principles establish the requirements for steel chemical composition and the process parameters, including steelmaking, reheating, hot rolling, annealing and cold rolling. Metallurgical Design of Flat Rolled Steels reviews the current theories and experimental works conducted in this area, and gives a comparative analysis of the obtained results in application to a large variety of steels produced around the world.
This guide presents essential material in a fashion that permits rapid application to practical problems while providing the structure and understanding necessary for long-term growth. It first explains how the components fit and work together to make a successful experimental design, then analyzes each component in detail, presenting the various approaches in the form of menus of different strategies and options. Then the text illustrates equations developed by various researchers and compares them in both table and graphic forms.
Written in a clear and concise manner, the material is presented using a modular or "building block" approach so readers get to see how the entire structure fits together and learn the essential techniques and terminology necessary to develop more complex designs and analyses.

Vladimir B. Ginzburg

Microstructural characteristics of metals. Chemical compositions of steels. Physical properties of steels. Current classification of steels. Basic metallurgical features of primary and secondary steelmaking. Basic metallurgical features of casting and reheating. Hot and cold rolling mills for manufacturing of flat rolled products. Heat transfer during hot rolling. Basic principles of macroscopic plasticity in steels. Current theories of flat rolling. Equations for resistance. Structural changes in plain carbon steels. Solubility and precipitation of microalloy carbides and nitrides. Structural changes in microalloyed steels. Strengthening mechanisms in steels. Thermomechanical treatment of steel. Mechanical properties of hot rolled carbon steels. Cold-forming and fatigue properties of steels.