Abstract
Dual-phase steels are generally used in the car industry due to high tensile strength and good formability, which are obtained by a mixture of bainite and ferrite phases. This microstructure is achieved through slow rate coil cooling. However, the manufacturing of dual-phase steels introduces various challenges such as the instability of the cold rolling process. An important factor affecting this is the non-uniform coil cooling of a hot rolled strip. In coil cooling the cooling rates are not controlled and there are different thermal contacts during coil conveyance causing unequal cooling of the steel coil. Unequal cooling rates lead to non-uniform coil cooling, producing irregular phase transformations on different sides of the coil, which causes periodical variations of the phase fractions in the steel strip. Varying phase fractions cause thickness deviations in the strip during the cold rolling process. A three-dimensional transient heat transfer finite element model was developed and used for modeling the complete coil conveyance chain and coil field cooling of the coil on an industrial scale. A coupled phase transformation model is implemented as a subroutine into the finite element model for calculating the resulting phase fractions. It was found that the different thermal contacts during the coil conveyance produce uneven cooling rates causing length- and widthwise variations in the phase fractions. The heat transfer model is validated by comparing temperature profiles between the simulated and measured coil edges. The phase transformation model is fitted into experimental data and verification is carried out in industrial conditions by comparing the modeled phase fractions and test samples from a cooled and unwound steel coil.
Highlights
Dual-Phase (DP) steels are high-strength automotive steels
This study showed how significantly differing cooling rates influence strain gradient due to phase transformations
The phase transformation model parameters were obtained by fitting the model to the experimental dilatometry data
Summary
Dual-Phase (DP) steels are high-strength automotive steels. In this paper the coil cooling of Ferrite-Bainite Dual-Phase (FBDP) steel is studied. Cho et al [2] developed a thermo-mechanical Finite Element Method (FEM) -model coupled with a phase trans formation model to predict edge waves in a hot rolled plate during run-out table cooling. Karlberg [3] described the development of a thermo-mechanically coupled solution to predict coil cooling as well as axial, circumferen tial and effective stresses in the coil. He claimed excellent agreement between the measured and modeled cooling paths of coil cooling and introduced circumferential stresses within the coil. In this study validation is carried out comparing experimental measurements of an ongoing full-scale industrial process to modeled results of the FEM-model
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