JP2626642B2 - Continuous hot rolling of billets - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hot rolling method for billets (slabs, blooms, billets and bars in semi-finished products), and to improve the quality of the hot rolling.
It relates to a new rolling method that greatly contributes to yield improvement. Hereinafter, a hot strip mill of a billet hot rolling mill will be described as an example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 1 shows a general arrangement of a conventional hot strip mill.

[0003] 1 is a No. 1 rough rolling mill, which is usually of a reversible type.
2 is a No. 2 rough rolling mill, which is often a one-way rolling mill. Reference numeral 3 denotes a cropper provided on the entry side of the finishing mill group 4 for cutting the leading end or the trailing end of the billet 8 or 9. 5 is a looper provided between finishing mills, 6 is a down coiler 7
Is a pinch roller provided on the entry side of. 10, 11,
Reference numerals 12 and 13 denote roller tables, respectively. The finishing mill group 4 is usually composed of 5 to 7 units, and the billet is simultaneously rolled across all the finishing mills. However, rolling is performed at intervals of one slab or one coil at the exit side. Therefore, the leading end plate and the trailing end trailing operation are performed for each slab, which causes many problems as described later in detail. This problem disappears if many slabs are combined into one long slab. This is currently not realized for the following reasons. If the slab is produced by blooming mill, because the size of the slab to build the largest possible slabs by bonding it since it is limited to the size of the steel ingot is 200
There is a need for a method of economically joining materials having a thickness of about mm in a short time, but this has not yet been realized due to difficulties.

On the other hand, in continuous casting, a slab that is practically infinitely long can be obtained, but the production of one strand of continuous casting is 1/3 to 1/4 of the production of a hot strip mill. Slabs must be supplied alternately from a continuous casting facility of .about.4 strands, and the continuous slab having a bent angle must be cut into an appropriate thickness and supplied to a hot strip mill.

[0005]

However, if the slab is made continuous, the following effects can be expected.

(1) Miniaturization and energy saving of equipment a) Since the continuity eliminates biting and trailing, it is not necessary to increase the work roll diameter for this reason because of biting performance (restriction Δh ≒ μ ^2. (D _W / 2) D _W : work roll diameter, μ: roll-material Masatsu coefficient).

B) Since the impact torque generated at the time of biting and trailing is eliminated, the diameter of the work roll can be reduced according to the drive system.

C) In hot rolling, oil lubrication has recently been aimed at extending the life of the rolls and reducing the rolling load and rolling power. However, oil must be drained in order to prevent biting failure when biting into the passing plate. At some time before threading, refueling must be interrupted and a complicated oil drainer must be provided. In the case of a continuous slab, these become unnecessary and sufficient oil lubrication can always be performed. For this reason, the rolling mill can be smaller.

For the reasons a), b) and c) described above, the working roll diameter can be significantly reduced, and the reinforcing roll diameter can be reduced due to the reduction of the rolling load by itself and the rolling load reduction effect by oil lubrication. Can be small. still,
It is also possible to reduce the number of stands and increase the equipment cost by increasing the reduction per stand without reducing the size.

Further, since the rolling power is substantially proportional to the square root of the diameter of the work roll, for example, the diameter of the work roll is set to 800 mm.
Assuming that it is 64% from the position of 512 mm, the rolling power is 20
% Savings and a drive power of 10,000 kW per stand is 20
00 kW can be saved.

In general, when the diameter of the work roll is reduced as described above, contrary to the above-described effects, the lateral rigidity of the work roll is reduced, and the axial deflection of the work roll due to a change in the rolling load or a change in the plate width is increased. There is a drawback that the sheet crown and shape (flatness) of the sheet are deteriorated. However, this is a roll bending which is effective for a known six-high rolling mill capable of moving an intermediate roll shaft and a four-high rolling mill capable of moving a work roll shaft. (Work roll or intermediate roll).

(2) Improvement of Quality and Yield In the conventional rolling method, no tension is applied to the steel slab at the end of the strip passing through the finishing mill, and the tension is applied to the other portions.
The thickness and width of the sheet change, and the front and rear ends have no tension, so that the sheet is likely to bend, which lowers the yield quality. This can be solved by continuity. Furthermore, in order to minimize the difference between the no tension at the time of threading and butt removal, the tension had to be as low as possible during normal rolling, but this was not necessary due to continuation, and by applying appropriate tension It is possible to reduce the rolling load, apply thinner material under high pressure, and, if necessary, consciously control the tension and use it for controlling the sheet width.

Although continuity has a great economic effect as described above, it has been extremely difficult to realize. Continuity in a cold strip mill (cold strip mill) has already been realized. This is achieved by joining the tail end of the preceding coil and the tip of the succeeding coil by welding to achieve continuity.However, since the plate is thin and at room temperature, a strip looper is provided between the rolling mill and the welding machine. The reason is that the welding machine can successfully perform welding in a stopped state while supplying the slab to the rolling machine from the looper and continuing the rolling. On the other hand, in hot rolling equipment, the slab thickness is about 200 mm, and the thickness is 30 to 50 mm even on the entrance side of the finishing mill, and it is difficult to form a loop. Only a little time is available. By the way, in the cold state, the rolling time of one coil is 3 to 5 minutes, and in the hot state, the rolling time of one slab is at most 1 minute. Therefore, if the welding method is used to achieve continuity, it cannot be realized unless welding is completed in a few seconds by a traveling welding machine.

[0014] However, in the "joining and continuous rolling method of heated material" proposed in JP-A-48-67159 as a conventional continuous hot rolling method, the heating material during rough rolling is approached to the rough rolling mill entrance. While following the progress of the tail, the surroundings of the contact surface are joined by electrolysis or pressure welding while the head of the subsequent unit material is brought into contact, and this joining method is successively performed to perform continuous rolling.

[0015] However, the electrolysis requires a time of a unit of minute, for example, the material advances at a speed of 30 m / min, and even if the welding time is 1 minute, the welding machine itself needs to move about 30 m together with the material. It has difficulties in terms of space and mechanical structure. On the other hand, JP-A-51-59748
According to the method of hot rolling of billets proposed in
When the slab is successively and continuously hot-rolled, the angle at which the sheared end face generated when the slab is sheared in the width direction at the front end and the rear end in the longitudinal direction intersects the slab is set to a predetermined angle (20 ° to 20 °).
85 °), the sheared surface is descaled, and the two billets are pressed against each other by rolling while pressing against the rear end face of the preceding billet that has been sheared at the same angle. These are sequentially joined.

However, in this method, it is necessary to perform shearing so that the angle at which the sheared end face intersects the slab is 20 ° to 85 °. Offline work before inserting the furnace or heating furnace. In addition, it is difficult to perform shearing with a high degree of precision in shearing at an angle.
In this method, the billet is bitten into the rolling roll while pressing both sheared end faces, but it is difficult to set the pushing force and the rolling reduction.

An object of the present invention is to continuously join the ends of a plurality of traveling hot slabs and perform hot rolling, and to scale the joint surfaces at the ends of the preceding and following hot slabs. there suppressing the occurrence, and a short time to provide a continuous hot rolling method for performing a secure joint.

[0018]

Means for Solving the Problems Continuous hot working of the billet of the present invention
The rolling method is to run ahead after being rolled by the rough rolling mill.
The end of the hot billet that travels behind the rear end of the hot billet
A first step of clamping the parts in close proximity to each other,
These clamped hot running billets
The rear end and the front end of the hot slab that travels backward are
In the hot slab traveling direction from above and below the hot slab
To shear almost vertically and to join the shear plane at the same time.
And a rear end portion of the preceding hot slab and the following
Each cut piece cut from the tip of the hot steel slab
A third step of rejecting off the runway of the piece;
The fourth step of hot rolling the hot slab in a finishing mill, and
Fifth, the hot-rolled hot billet is wound by a winder.
And the step of performing the second step, the hot billet
Following the traveling of the hot billet so as to substantially coincide with the traveling speed of the hot billet.
It is characterized by performing while obeying.

That is, according to the above configuration, when the ends of a plurality of traveling hot slabs are continuously joined and hot rolling is performed, the ends of the preceding and following hot slabs are sheared. At the same time, the cutting surfaces of the steel slabs to be joined together are joined to each other, so that the joining surfaces of the preceding and following hot slabs are exposed to the open air for a short time, and the occurrence of scale on the joining surfaces is suppressed. Therefore, the hot steel slab can be reliably joined in a short time.

[0020]

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a hot strip mill according to the present invention. Unexplained numbers are the same as in the apparatus of FIG. FIG. 2 shows a case where the billet is made continuous at the entrance of the finishing mill. The continuation of the billet is to arrange a device capable of joining the preceding and succeeding billets in a short time at the entrance of the finishing mill, and to move a short distance following the strip traveling speed ( 2.5 m if 5 seconds including cutting, joining, etc.).

Next, a method of strip joining in a short time will be described. Methods for joining billets include welding brazing, forging, rolling, and mechanical joining. (1) Joining must be performed in a short time (within several seconds) (problem of scale generation). (2) During the rolling in the finishing mill in the post-process, the joining must have such a strength that the joining does not come off.

Incidentally, the hot-rolled strip has a temperature of 1000 to 1100 ° C. at the joining position.
Even if it is heated because it has a degree, it is sufficient to raise the temperature from this temperature level state, and there is an effective aspect that bonding can be performed at this temperature level, and it is possible to make the most of this property is important. Therefore, the present invention focuses on the above properties.

That is, the vertical cross section of the rear end of the preceding steel slab and the vertical cross section of the front end of the succeeding strip are both 1000-1.
If the temperature is 100 ° C., by pressing them, both ends are joined by diffusion. However, the problem here is the shape of the cross-section, the occurrence of scale, and various shapes before joining, and both ends of the rear end and the front end where the temperature is reduced. with simultaneously or a short time difference part satisfactorily cut, continuous behavior is not passed that pressing between junction easily cross-sectional shape and are allowed to appear warmer surface and the scale of the cut surface generation is small.
Here, if only diffusion is used, attention must be paid to the atmosphere, and the bonding time cannot be settled within several seconds.

Therefore, according to the present invention, (1) bonding is possible in the atmosphere.

(2) The present invention proposes a joining method having a feature that the joining time is short (within a few seconds: a necessary condition for the continuation), and enables continuous hot rolling of a billet.

That is, in this joining method, the rear end of the preceding slab, which is a hot slab, and the front end of the succeeding slab are sheared in a two-stage stack.
They are joined at the same time. The pressing force for joining the hot slabs is preferably as small as possible to minimize the swelling of the joint, but a value that has sufficient joining strength to withstand even after rolling after joining must be selected. . Although the test results with the equivalent joint strength and 5 to 10 kg / mm ² in the base material at a surface pressure of, for after the continuous rolling cut again in the present invention, the value is not necessary, 5 to 10 kg / mm ² or less Good.

Therefore, for example, the bonding strength is set to 0.1 k in terms of surface pressure.
Assuming g / mm ^{2 to 5} kg / mm ² , the pressing force of a slab of 30 mm thickness × 1500 mm is 4500 kg to 225,000 kg.

According to the above method, in a short time within several seconds,
In addition, it can be joined in the atmosphere and the strength is close to the base material strip strength, and the continuous hot rolling of the steel slab, which is the object of the present invention, becomes possible.

FIGS. 3 and 4 show an embodiment of an apparatus for joining hot slabs.

In FIG. 3, the carriage 20 can run on rails 41 so that it can run according to the moving speed of the billet. The carriage 20 is provided with strip clamp devices 22 and 21 so as to fix and hold the vicinity of the rear end of the preceding slab 8 and the vicinity of the front end of the succeeding slab 9, respectively. And these strip clamp devices 22, 21
Is a detection device 62 for detecting the position of the rear end of the preceding billet 8.
And detecting device 61 for detecting the position of the tip of succeeding billet 9
, And the end portions of the respective steel pieces are clamped by the built-in hydraulic cylinder devices 22a, 21a. A shearing device including lower tool rests 23, 24 having a tool 42 and upper tool rests 25, 26 having a tool 43 is disposed between the strip clamp devices 21 and 22. 25 and 26 are hydraulic cylinder devices 2 respectively.
It is lowered by the operations of 5a and 26a, and cuts the rear end of the preceding steel slab 8 and the front end of the succeeding steel slab 9 by a predetermined dimension in the vertical direction. Further, a gantry 27 having a hydraulic cylinder device 27a that is operated in synchronization with the lowering of the upper turrets 25 and 26 is installed below the upper turrets 25 and 26, that is, below the billet. While applying a certain force to the steel piece when cutting the ends of the copper pieces 8 and 9 by the gantry 27, the gantry 27 is lowered with the lowering of the upper tool rests 25 and 26, so that the cutting of the steel slab is surely performed. It can be performed with high precision.

As shown in FIG. 4, a motor 31, a rack 32 and a pinion 33 are provided between the lower tool rests 23 and 24, and the rack engaged with the pinion 33 by the rotation of the motor 31. A crop processing device 30 is installed which moves in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the running direction of the billet as the 32 moves. Then, the rear end portion of the steel slab 8 and the front end portion of the steel slab 9 cut by the shearing device are removed to the outside from the running line of the steel slab so as not to hinder the next joining operation. In addition, the crop processing apparatus 30 also has a supply mechanism 45 for inserting a dissimilar insertion material 34 having a lower melting point than the billet base material between the cut surfaces of the billets 8 and 9 when the billet is joined. Is what it is.

Further, the ends of the billets 8 and 9 are cut into the bogie 20 by a shearing device, and the cut billets are removed by the next cropping device 30 to insert different kinds of cuts between the cut surfaces of both billets 8 and 9. Lumber 3
4 and 5, the succeeding steel piece 9 is fed in advance and the front cut surface of the steel piece 9 is pressed against and joined to the rear end cut surface of the preceding steel piece 8 as shown in FIGS. A pressing device 35 is provided. The pressing device 35 includes upper and lower pressing plates 51 and 52 for pressing the succeeding billet 9 from above and below, a hydraulic cylinder 36 for adjusting a gap between the pressing plates 51 and 52, and a moving member in the traveling direction of the billet to move the billet 8. It is composed of a hydraulic cylinder device 37 and a rail 47 capable of pressing the cutting end surface of the steel piece 9 against the rear end cutting surface.

As for the cutting method of the hot steel slab, as shown in FIG. 6, shearing may be carried out in two-stage laps so as to join them simultaneously.

Next, the operation of the continuous hot rolling apparatus having the above configuration will be described.

In FIG. 3, the trailing end of the preceding billet 8 and the leading end of the succeeding billet 9 are caused to follow the material speed so that the bogie 20 follows the material speed so as to be set at the cutting position. Stands 23, 24 and upper turret 2
The rear end of the preceding slab and the front end of the rear slab are cut simultaneously or within a short time interval by the shearing device constituted by the cutting devices 5 and 26. At this time, the upper tool post 25,
Below the base 26, there is provided a gantry 27 which descends with the lowering of the upper tool rests 25, 26 while holding the steel pieces 8, 9 with a certain vertical force when cutting.

The cut crop 28 shown by a two-dot chain line
29 is, for example, a motor 31, a rack 32,
Crop processing device 30 constituted by pinion 33 and the like
As a result, it is extruded in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the rolling strip traveling direction.

As for the cutting method, besides this embodiment, there is also a method of simultaneous shearing by shearing in a two-stage stack as shown in FIG.

After the rear end of the preceding slab 8 and the front end of the succeeding slab 9 have been cut, the crops 28 and 29 are extruded, and the slab 9 is extruded.
Is slightly opened, and the billet 9 is fed out while being inserted in the strip traveling direction,
The vertical cross section of the front end of the succeeding steel slab is pressed and joined to the vertical cross section of the rear end of the preceding steel slab 8. The pressing device 35 feeds and presses the upper and lower pressing plates 51 and 52 of the billet 9 in the strip advancing direction by a separately installed cylinder 37 in a state where the pressing plates 51 and 52 are pulled by the cylinder 36. When the joining of the billets 8 and 9 is completed, the strip clamp device 22 and the pressing device 35 are released, and a series of connection work is completed.

Thereafter, the joined billet is guided to the finishing mill group 4 and continuously rolled as shown in FIG.

The above description shows one embodiment of the joint portion of the present invention, and therefore includes all those having the following functions. (1) Detectors 61, 62 for detecting the positions of the rear end of the preceding slab and the front end of the succeeding slab. (2) Strip clamp device 21, which fixes both ends before cutting and joining both ends. 22 (3) Cutting both ends in the clamped state, upper and lower turret 2
3, 24, 25, 26 (4) Crop processing device 30 for processing cut crops after cutting (5) To press the vertical cross section of the front end of the succeeding steel slab against the vertical cross section of the rear end of the preceding steel slab (6) A bogie 20 for performing cutting, joining and operations accompanying these while following the progress of the strip. (7) It is composed of other devices necessary for performing the above-mentioned work.

The slab thus joined needs to be cut before the winder. In this case, if a flying shear 14 is provided on the exit side of the pinch roller 6 as shown in FIG. 2, a constant tension is always applied to the exit of the finishing stand, and the fluctuation of the plate width due to the bending of the plate or the change in the tension is reduced. By the continuation, the operation looper 5 between the finishing stands shown in FIG. 1 is replaced by a fixed tension meter 16 as shown in FIG. 2, so that the equipment cost can be reduced and the maintainability can be improved.

[0042]

According to the present invention, when the ends of a plurality of traveling hot slabs are continuously joined and hot-rolled, the joining surfaces at the ends of the preceding and following hot slabs are formed. Since joining can be performed while suppressing generation of scale, it becomes possible to join the hot slabs reliably in a short time. Therefore, there is an effect that a hot rolling method of continuously rolling a plurality of traveling hot slabs can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an arrangement of a conventional hot strip mill.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an arrangement of a hot strip mill which enables continuous rolling to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is an overall view of a continuous strip joining apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a view taken in the direction of arrows VV in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of cutting a billet in the strip joining apparatus of FIG. 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

4: rolling mill, 8: preceding steel slab, 9: succeeding steel slab, 20: trolley, 21, 22: strip clamping device, 23, 24
... lower turret, 25, 26 ... upper turret, 30 ... crop processing device, 35 ... pressing device, 41, 47 ... rail.

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-51-130665 (JP, A) JP-A-58-112601 (JP, A) JP-A-57-137008 (JP, A)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A rear end portion of a hot slab which travels in advance after being rolled by a rough rolling mill and a front end portion of a hot slab which runs in a trailing direction are clamped in close proximity to each other. The first step,
A distal end portion of the hot steel slab travels with the trailing rear end portion of the hot steel slab travels with the prior are these clamps 2
In the hot slab traveling direction from above and below the hot slab
A second step of shearing substantially perpendicularly and simultaneously joining the sheared surfaces, and cutting each of the rear end of the preceding hot slab and the front end of the following hot slab. A third step of removing the cut pieces outside the track of the hot slab, a fourth step of hot rolling the joined hot slabs with a finishing mill, and the hot rolling And a fifth step of winding the hot billet by a winder, wherein the second step is carried out so that the hot steel billet substantially coincides with the traveling speed of the hot billet. A continuous hot rolling method for a steel slab, wherein the method is performed while following the running of the slab.