EP1013351B1 - Kaltnachwalzverfahren für Stahlblech und Kaltnachwalzwerk - Google Patents

Kaltnachwalzverfahren für Stahlblech und Kaltnachwalzwerk Download PDF

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EP1013351B1
EP1013351B1 EP99310136A EP99310136A EP1013351B1 EP 1013351 B1 EP1013351 B1 EP 1013351B1 EP 99310136 A EP99310136 A EP 99310136A EP 99310136 A EP99310136 A EP 99310136A EP 1013351 B1 EP1013351 B1 EP 1013351B1
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Teruhiro C/O Chiba Works Saito
Hidenori c/o Chiba Works Miyake
Goro c/o Chiba Works Kawaguchi
Naoya c/o Chiba Works Sato
Makoto C/O Chiba Works Kobayashi
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B1/00—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations
    • B21B1/22—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling plates, strips, bands or sheets of indefinite length
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
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  • the present invention relates to a temper rolling method for steel plate and a to temper rolling mill according to the preambles of claim 1 and claim 6 respectively (see e.g. FR-A 00 46 423).
  • the present invention especially relates to a temper rolling method for a steel plate suitable for producing a can having a highly bright appearance, and to a temper rolling mill for carrying out the method.
  • Temper rolling of a steel plate requiring brightness before or after plating is usually effected by a dry rolling method using a rolling mill with two stands or more, each stand being allotted a different role.
  • the first stand mainly serves for adjusting the quality of the material (surface hardness and the like) and requires a dull roll having a strong grip force in order to ensure sufficient elongation.
  • This dull roll is usually a roll that has been marked by dull stripes with weakly directional (or generally strongly random) surface roughness produced by shot blasting, electro-spark machining or laser processing.
  • the surface roughness (Ra) is usually 0.5 ⁇ m or more.
  • a grinding processing roll comprises a so-called mirror bright roll for forming a specular surface appearance, and a so-called scratch bright roll for leaving grinding traces (with a surface roughness (Ra) of about 0.15 ⁇ m or more) behind. Some of the scratch bright rolls leave a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ⁇ m or more. However, the scratch bright roll is not used in the first stand, since it has been considered to be insufficient for ensuring sufficient elongation.
  • the steel plate is rolled with the scratch bright roll in the second stand of the rolling mill and thereafter for improving the brightness by alleviating the effect of the dull stripes formed in the preceding stand.
  • the steel plate is then rolled with the scratch bright roll, a mirror bright roll or a dull roll having a surface roughness corresponding to the required surface roughness of the steel plate.
  • a two stand operation is most advantageous with respect to the production cost.
  • a dull roll such as a shot blasted dull roll is used for the front stand and a bright roll is used for the final stand.
  • the present invention provides a temper rolling method for temper rolling a steel plate using a temper rolling mill provided with a plurality of roll stands, wherein at least the roll at the top front stand is a scratch bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less, and at least the roll at the last stand is a bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ⁇ m or less, and wherein the temper rolling is dry rolling and the steel plate contains 0.012 wt% or less of carbon (C).
  • a temper rolling method for temper rolling a steel plate using a temper rolling mill provided with a plurality of roll stands wherein at least the roll at the top front stand is a scratch bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less, and at least the roll at the last stand is a bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ⁇ m or less, and wherein the temper rolling is dry rolling and the steel plate contains 0.012 wt% or less of carbon (C
  • the temper rolling mill used in the method has two stands in which case the roll at the first stand is the scratch bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less, and the roll at the second stand is the bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ⁇ m or less.
  • the present invention provides a temper rolling mill for rolling a steel plate having a plurality of stands, wherein at least the roll at the top front stand is a scratch bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less, and wherein at least the roll at the last stand is a bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of between 0.15 and 0.3 ⁇ m.
  • the temper rolling mill is provided with two stands in which case the roll at the first stand is the scratch bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less, and the roll at the second stand is the bright roll having a surface roughness (Ra) of between 0.15 and 0.3 ⁇ m.
  • Brightness, especially brightness after plating, of the steel plate is markedly improved when the steel plate is rolled using a scratch bright roll, even if the surface roughness is comparable to that obtained by other rolling methods. It is conjectured that, since the scratch bright roll leaves unidirectional grinding traces, only a few concave portions called dull bits, which are considered to be a main cause of deterioration of brightness, are formed.
  • the extremely low carbon steel is often excessively elongated when rolled with a dull roll at the top front stand resulting in excess hardness. Or, the elongation may be out of the control limit even though the hardness is not in excess, thereby requiring a quality test to be carried out prior to shipping. On the contrary, when a scratch bright roll is used in place of the dull roll, such excess elongation can be avoided.
  • the steel plates to be subjected to the temper rolling method according to the present invention are limited to those containing 0.012 wt% or less of carbon (C), because a desired hardness cannot be attained by elongation using the scratch bright roll at the top front stand when the steel plate contains more than 0.012% of C. More preferably, the steel plate contains 0.0080 wt% or less of carbon.
  • the preferred lower limit for the carbon content is 0.0010 wt%, as lower contents may cause excess elongation.
  • FIG. 1 shows a graph indicating the relationship between the C content and the elongation of temper rolled steel plate as a result of studies made by the inventors of the present invention.
  • Scratch bright rolls with a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.6 ⁇ m, scratch bright rolls with a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.15 ⁇ m, and shot blasted dull rolls with a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.6 ⁇ m were used as the first stand for obtaining the curves denoted by SB 0.6, SB 0.15 and SB 0.6, respectively, in FIG. 1.
  • Each temper rolling mill comprised two stands, and a scratch bright roll with a surface roughness of 0.2 ⁇ m was used at the second stand. An elongation of 1.6% ⁇ 0.2% was obtained with respect to the steel plate containing 0.002 wt% of C under the rolling condition used.
  • the steel plate preferably contains either 0.02 wt% of titanium (Ti) or 0.1 wt% of niobium (Nb), or both of them, in order to ensure softness and machinability. Lower limits of 0.005 wt% and 0.002 wt% are recommended with respect to Ti and Nb.
  • Aluminum (Al) may be present in an amount of 0.15 wt% or less for deoxidation and stabilization of nitrogen (N).
  • Si silicon
  • Mn manganese
  • P phosphorous
  • S sulfur
  • More preferable contents of Si, P and S are 0.05 wt% or less, 0.02 wt% or less and 0.02 wt% or less, respectively.
  • Calcium (Ca) may be added if desired and the balance is Fe and incidental element and impurities.
  • the top roll is a scratch bright roll with a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.2 ⁇ m or less. Brightness before or after plating becomes poor when a dull roll or a scratch bright roll with a surface roughness (Ra) of more than 1.2 ⁇ m is used.
  • the preferred lower limit of the surface roughness (Ra) is 0.20 ⁇ m or more. When the surface roughness (Ra) is less than 0.20 ⁇ m, elongation (hardness) tends to be insufficiently developed.
  • the more preferable surface roughness (Ra) is in the range of 0.5 to 1.0 ⁇ m.
  • chromium (Cr) plating may be effected in view of wear resistance.
  • At least the roll at the last stand should be a bright roll with a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.5 ⁇ m or less for ensuring a given level or more of brightness.
  • a mirror bright roll or a scratch bright roll may be used depending on the target surface roughness.
  • a desired brightness including after plating
  • the surface roughness is preferably lower than the surface roughness of the roll at the final stand.
  • the effect of the present invention is markedly exhibited using a roll with a surface roughness (Ra) range of about 0.15 to 0.3 ⁇ m which is used according to the apparatus of the present invention, where requirements for brightness have not been satisfied using a conventional roll.
  • plating with Cr may be applied to the surface to improve wear resistance.
  • Bright rolls are preferably used for the rolls of the stands intermediate the top front and last stands.
  • a roll having a surface roughness within the range of the surface roughness of the front and last stands is especially suitable for the rolls to be used in the stands other than the front and last stands for ensuring a required brightness. More preferably, the surface roughness of each roll is gradually made finer in the order of from the front roll to the succeeding rolls.
  • a dry rolling that requires no lubrication of the steel plate is used for the temper rolling.
  • An elongation of 3% or less is suitable, while an elongation of 1.5 ⁇ 1% is more preferable and an elongation of 1.5 ⁇ 0.5% is further preferable.
  • the target hardness may be 50 to 60 in HR30T.
  • Plating methods after the temper rolling are not especially designated.
  • Various plating methods generally used for plating steel plates for cans such as tin plating or chromium plating, or nickel (Ni) plating or a chromate processing on the surfaces after these plating treatments may be applied to the target steel plate according to the present invention.
  • Brightness was measured at an incident light angle of 20° using a gloss meter following JIS Z8741 in the present invention.
  • the temper rolling mill according to the present invention may be applied to a production line using the temper rolling alone, or it may installed at the outlet of a continuous annealing furnace.
  • the steel plate After subjecting the cold roll steel plate having each component shown in TABLE 1 to recrystallization annealing (continuous annealing), the steel plate was temper rolled with a temper rolling mill having two to three sands under the conditions shown in TABLE 2, and the conditions other than those shown in TABLE 2 are the same condition under which an elongation of 1.5 is obtained using the #1 stand SD 0.6 and #2 stand MB 0.5 shown in No. 1 of TABLE 2.
  • HR30T hardness
  • the present invention enables the production of a steel plate suitable for manufacturing, for example, cans merely by applying unidirectional rolling using a temper rolling mill provided with two to three stands at most.

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  1. Nachwalzverfahren zum Nachwalzen eines Stahlblechs mit Hilfe eines Nachwalzwerks, das mit mehreren Walzgerüsten versehen ist, wobei mindestens die Walze am oberen vorderen Gerüst eine Riefenglanzwalze ist, die eine Oberflächenrauheit (Ra) von 1,2 µm oder weniger hat, und zumindest die Walze im letzten Gerüst eine Glanzwalze ist, die eine Oberflächenrauheit (Ra) von 0,5 µm oder weniger hat, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Nachwalzen ein trockenes Walzen ist und dass das Stahlblech 0,012 Gewichtsprozent oder weniger an C enthält.
  2. Nachwalzverfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei das Nachwalzwerk ein Werk mit zwei Gerüsten ist.
  3. Nachwalzverfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei das Stahlblech zwischen 0,001 und 0,008 Gewichtsprozent Kohlenstoff enthält.
  4. Nachwalzverfahren nach Anspruch 1, 2 oder 3, wobei das Stahlblech zusätzlich zwischen 0,005 und 0,2 Gewichtsprozent Ti und/oder zwischen 0,002 und 0,1 Gewichtsprozent Nb enthält.
  5. Nachwalzverfahren nach irgendeinem vorhergehenden Anspruch, wobei das Stahlblech zusätzlich nicht mehr als 0,15 Gewichtsprozent Al, nicht mehr als 0,2 Gewichtsprozent Si, zwischen 0,1 und 0,5 Gewichtsprozent Mn, nicht mehr als 0,05 Gewichtsprozent P und nicht mehr als 0,03 Gewichtsprozent S enthält.
  6. Nachwalzwerk für Stahlblech, das mehrere Walzgerüste aufweist, wobei mindestens die Walze am oberen vorderen Gerüst eine Riefenglanzwalze ist, die eine Oberflächenrauheit (Ra) von 1,2 µm oder weniger hat, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass zumindest die Walze im letzten Gerüst eine Glanzwalze ist, die eine Oberflächenrauheit (Ra) zwischen 0,15 und 0,3 µm hat.
  7. Nachwalzwerk nach Anspruch 6, das ein Werk mit zwei Gerüsten ist.
  8. Nachwalzwerk nach Anspruch 6 oder 7, wobei die Riefenglanzwalze des vorderen Gerüsts eine Oberflächenrauheit von mindestens 0,20 µm hat.
  9. Nachwalzwerk nach Anspruch 8, wobei die Riefenglanzwalze des vorderen Gerüsts eine Oberflächenrauheit von 0,5 bis 1,0 µm hat.
  10. Nachwalzwerk nach irgendeinem der Ansprüche 6 bis 9, wobei die Glanzwalze des letzten Gerüsts eine Hochglanzwalze oder eine Riefenglanzwalze ist.
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