Determining the No-Recrystallization Conditions for Industrial Hot Strip Rolling of Steels Using Laboratory Simulations

Abstract

Avoiding recrystallization of austenite in hot strip rolling of steels is highly important for enhancing mechanical properties of hot rolled products, as well as for the products undergoing cold rolling and annealing or coating. Recrystallization can only be avoided if its incubation time is longer that the time intervals characteristic for a particular hot rolling process. The present work focuses on computation of incubation time tinc for static recrystallization using laboratory hot deformation data and on extrapolation the results to industrial conditions. The computations are done based on application of critical conditions for initiation of dynamic recrystallization to the static case. No-recrystallization temperature in hot strip rolling is determined by setting tinc equal to interpass time. Simulations allow for prediction of the onset of austenite static or metadynamic recrystallization after individual rolling passes during industrial hot rolling and evaluation of the effects of strip thickness, rolling speeds, etc.