JP5258530B2 - How to clean hot slab surface - Google Patents

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a hot slab cutting surface layer cleaning method, and in particular, a slab hot cleaning that does not cause quality deterioration of the surface and surface layer of a hot slab, improving slab yield and reducing cutting blade wear. That is what we are trying to achieve.

  The continuous casting equipment continuously manufactures slabs with a length of around 10m from molten steel and sends them to the next hot rolling line as rolling material. In this hot rolling line, the slab is usually heated in a heating furnace and then subjected to hot rolling. In this case, if the slab produced by continuous casting is charged as high as possible, preferably at a temperature of 800 ° C. or higher, into the heating furnace of the hot rolling line, the burden on the heating furnace is reduced, and the fuel is reduced. The basic unit can be reduced. Such an operation method is called direct feed rolling or direct hot charge roll (DHCR), and has been widely attempted recently.

  However, slabs have inclusion defects that occur in the casting stage. In particular, inclusion defects existing up to several millimeters below the surface of the slab are lined up on the surface of the steel sheet in the subsequent rolling or plating processes. Generate a state defect. Such inclusion defects originate from deoxidation products such as mold powder and alumina used during continuous casting, and inclusions having a size of about several hundred microns are said to cause defects.

  For this reason, slabs produced by casting equipment are conventionally either hot or cold after being cooled, and the entire surface of the slab surface is subjected to hot-cut or scarfing (scarfing). It has been common practice to perform surface grinding with a grinder.

  However, the hot scurfer is a method in which the slab surface layer is melted with high heat and scraped off while the melt is blown away, so that the slab surface layer is locally heated. As a result, the concentration of specific elements such as phosphorus (P) and nickel (Ni) in the slab surface layer portion or the decarburization of the surface layer portion is caused, which causes a problem that the surface layer quality of the slab deteriorates.

  In addition, cold scurfers for slabs that have been sharded have the advantage that the slab temperature does not change, so the depth of cutting does not fluctuate, and the degree of heating of the slab surface layer is low, so the concentration of the specific elements described above Although there is an advantage that it is difficult to occur, there has been a problem that energy loss due to slab cooling is severe.

  Regardless of whether the hot scurfer or cold scurfer is used, if the entire surface of the slab surface is cleaned by scurfers (welding), irregularities with a slab height of about 2 mm may be generated on the slab surface. Many. This is due to the fact that the flammable gas outlet from the nozzle of the skater is divided. Scarfers for eliminating such undulations have been developed, but it is not sufficient in terms of smoothing the surface to be welded after cleaning. This undulation is said to cause new surface defects of the hot-rolled steel sheet in the hot rolling process.

On the other hand, the maintenance by the grinder has a disadvantage that the cutting efficiency is remarkably small as compared with the scarf because the grinder's surface layer removing ability (care ability) is low. In addition, since there are missing or attached grindstones that cause surface flaws in steel products, it has only been used to remove gas cutting paste at the end of the slab for hot slabs.
As described above, in the conventional general care method, there is a possibility that a defect causing a new surface flaw may occur in the skin or surface layer portion of the slab after care.

In order to solve the above problem, for example, Patent Document 1 proposes a slab care method in which the surface of a steel plate is ground with a cutting blade.
JP, 2004-181561, A As a surface cutting method of the hot steel materials using a cutting blade, two kinds of methods, a shaper method (cutting) and a cutting method by a milling machine, are proposed. The steel material in the hot state has a lower specific cutting resistance, which is the resistance at the time of cutting, than the steel material in the cold state, and particularly at 500 ° C. or higher, it is reduced to 2/3 to 1/2 in the cold state. Thus, the hot cutting can be easily performed, and the machinability (free-cutting property) is good, so that the surface roughness of the cutting surface is also good.

The characteristics when cutting steel in a high temperature state are as follows.
(1) The cutting power decreases as the specific cutting resistance decreases.
(2) Since the cutting is performed at a high temperature, wear of the blade edge proceeds.
(3) Even if the cutting edge wear progresses, the increase of cutting power and the deterioration of cutting surface roughness are small.
(4) Regardless of the progress of cutting edge wear, chips during cutting are discharged in a red hot state, or sparks are generated during cutting.
(5) Adherents are easily attached to the cutting edge.

The features (1) to (5) described above are phenomena that are not observed in the cutting of cold material, and are inherent to the cutting of hot material. The boundary temperature at which such a phenomenon appears is not clear, but the experimental results show that the above-mentioned characteristics start to be observed when the steel surface temperature is about 400 ° C., and is particularly noticeable at 500 ° C. or higher.
Thus, in the surface cutting of the hot steel material by the cutting blade, since the high-temperature material is cut, the thermal load on the cutting edge is large, and the wear of the cutting edge is promoted compared to the cold cutting. Further, the chipping (chip) of the blade is likely to occur due to thermal shock, and the blade life becomes a problem.

Patent document 1 is mentioned as a prior art regarding the cutting of such high temperature hot steel materials.
JP 2004-181561 A

When cutting the surface of a hot slab using the above-described high-temperature hot steel material cutting technology, if the slab width is large, the cutting area is divided in the width direction, for example, as shown in FIG. Divided and cut individually. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a rotary cutting tool (cutter body), 2 is a cutting tip, and 3 is a hot slab.
In this case, in order to minimize the cutting amount, the cutting allowance is determined in consideration of the waviness height of the steel sheet surface. However, when the waviness height differs in the divided cutting areas, as shown in FIG. In addition, a step 4 occurs in the dividing line.
When the hot slab 3 having such a step 4 is subjected to a hot rolling process, there is a possibility that a defect 5 called “overlap” as shown in FIG.

In order to solve the above problem, it is conceivable to determine the cutting allowance corresponding to the maximum waviness height in consideration of the waviness height over the entire surface of the steel sheet, and to cut the entire surface by that amount.
However, in this case, a cutting area having a low undulation height is cut excessively, resulting in a decrease in yield of the slab material. Further, since the amount of cutting increases, the cutting power and therefore the amount of electricity increase accordingly, leading to an increase in cutting cost. Furthermore, since the cutting depth is increased for the tool tip, not only the tool life is shortened, but also the frequency of cutting edge replacement is increased, resulting in an increase in tool cost and a decrease in equipment operation rate.

  In general, in face milling, the cutting edge of the tool tip attached to the outer periphery of the rotary cutting tool is in contact with the hot slab surface even in a non-cutting state as shown in FIG. This has shortened the tool life.

  The present invention has been developed in view of the above-described circumstances, and does not cause an unnecessary decrease in the yield of the hot slab when cutting the surface of the hot slab, and can effectively extend the tool life. The purpose is to propose a method for surface treatment of interslabs.

As a result of intensive studies to solve the above problems, the inventors have obtained the following knowledge.
Conventionally, the rotary cutting tool (cutter body) has three drive axes in the x, y, and z directions, and the rotary cutting tool surface can only move in a direction parallel to the surface of the workpiece (hot slab). It was.
Therefore, as the drive axis of the rotary cutting tool, two rotation axes are added, and five axes are used. The rotary cutting tool can be rotated not only in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled, but also in the direction perpendicular to the cutting direction. When cutting was attempted by tilting the cutting tool in various directions, it was found that the intended purpose is advantageously achieved by appropriately controlling the tilt direction.
The present invention is based on the above findings.

That is, the gist configuration of the present invention is as follows.
1. About the hot slab cut to a predetermined length after continuous casting, part or all of the surface layer part of one surface or two or more surfaces of the front surface, back surface, and side surfaces or a plurality of cutting blades. When performing surface care with a milling surface cutting machine with tools,
Provided on the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool with a shielding member that cuts off the radiant heat from the surface of the hot slab at an interval from the bottom surface of the cutting tool,
A cutting method for a hot slab cutting surface layer, wherein the rotary cutting tool is driven to rotate about a cutting direction of the material to be rolled and / or an axis inclined in a direction perpendicular to the cutting direction. .

2. 2. The hot slab according to claim 1, wherein the milling surface layer cutting device has a portal gantry structure in which a rotary cutting tool can move in five axes including three swivel axes in three linear orthogonal directions. Cutting surface care method.

3. 3. The method for cleaning a hot slab cutting surface layer according to 1 or 2 above, wherein the cutting blade arranged around the rotary cutting tool is a rotary cutting tip.

4 . A cooling medium is supplied to the gap between the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool and the shielding member and / or the gap between the shielding member and the hot slab surface from the rotation center of the cutting tool or near the center. The cutting type surface layer cleaning method for a hot slab as described in any one of 1 to 3 above.

5 . A spiral groove is provided on the surface of the shielding member opposite to the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool to increase the surface area of the shielding member and to supply a cooling medium supplied from or near the rotation center of the cutting tool. 5. The hot slab cutting type surface layer care method according to any one of the above 1 to 4 , wherein the hot slab is discharged from the center of the tool toward the outer periphery through a groove.

6 . 6. The hot slab cutting type surface layer cleaning method according to any one of 1 to 5 , wherein the shielding member has a surface coating of a heat-resistant hard material on a surface thereof.

According to the present invention, by cutting the rotary cutting tool in a direction perpendicular to the cutting direction of the material to be rolled, the excess cutting of the hot slab can be reduced, and the yield of the hot slab can be improved. it can.
In addition, according to the present invention, the cutting edge of the tool tip can be effectively cooled by cutting the rotary cutting tool forwardly in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled, thereby extending the tool life. Can be achieved.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, the rotational cutting tool is appropriately tilted in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled and the direction perpendicular to the cutting direction, thereby achieving both improvement in slab yield and extension of the tool life. be able to.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 4 shows the flow of the slab from the continuous casting line to the heating furnace of the hot rolling line in the present invention.
FIG. 5 shows the flow of a conventional slab. As shown in FIG. 5, conventionally, when the slab surface is maintained in a hot state, it has been performed by hot scarfer or grinder grinding. However, it is difficult to obtain a good slab surface property by such a method. Is as described above. Therefore, in order to obtain a good slab surface, after cooling to cold, care was taken and sent to the next hot rolling line.

On the other hand, in this invention, as shown in FIG. 4, after cutting out the slab manufactured by the continuous casting line to predetermined length, it is a heating furnace of the hot rolling line of the next process with a hot state. Transport to. If it is determined that the slab needs to be cleaned during the transfer process, the surface of the slab in the hot state at an appropriate place such as on the transfer roller table or a dedicated surface layer maintenance area, At least a defective portion on the back surface and the side surface is cut in an as-cast state using a surface layer cutting device composed of a rotary cutting tool having a large number of cutting blades that are rotated by the driving force of an electric motor.
In the present invention, as in the prior art, surface care according to the present invention may be performed after cleaning by hot scurfer or grinder grinding.

By the way, in the present invention, when the surface of the hot slab is cleaned using the rotary cutting tool,
(1) While tilting (forward tilt) in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled,
(2) While tilting in the direction perpendicular to the cutting direction of the material to be rolled (the direction perpendicular to the cutting direction)
(3) While tilting in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled and the direction perpendicular to the cutting,
Cutting can be performed.
Hereinafter, each of the cases (1) to (3) will be described.

(1) When cutting while the rotary cutting tool is tilted (forwardly tilted) in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled This cutting method is advantageous for improving the cooling ability of the tool tip edge and thus extending the tool life. .
That is, as shown in FIG. 6, if the rotary cutting tool is inclined (forwardly inclined) in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled, it is in contact with the hot slab surface other than the blade engaged in grinding. Since the thermal load from the high temperature slab is relieved, the tool life is extended accordingly.
Note that, in the method of cutting the rotary cutting tool by inclining (forwardly tilting) in the cutting direction, the cutting width becomes narrow, so it is preferable to subdivide the cutting area in the slab width direction as necessary.

(2) When cutting while the rotary cutting tool is inclined in the direction perpendicular to the cutting of the material to be rolled, this cutting method is advantageous for improving the yield of the slab.
That is, for example, when the cutting area of the slab is divided into two in the width direction and each cutting is performed individually, as shown in FIG. 7, the amount of undulation differs in each cutting area, and as a result, the thickness of the edge portion in the width direction is different. Differently, it is assumed that the edge of the m area on the left side of the drawing is thicker than the edge of the n area on the right side.
In such a case, as shown in FIG. 7, the rotating cutting tool is tilted in the direction perpendicular to the cutting so that the undulation can be eliminated and the stepped line does not occur in each of the cutting areas of m and n. Cutting is done.

This cutting method can prevent the level difference in the dividing line, which has been a concern in the past, and hence the “overlap” defect after hot rolling. In addition to the cutting surface having good surface properties, the hot slab with high surface quality and hot rolling can be used. The yield of the steel sheet can be improved.
In this method, if the dividing surface is increased according to the amount of waviness in the slab width direction, the step in the dividing line can be eliminated, and at the same time, the cutting amount can be further reduced, thereby reducing wasteful cutting energy. At the same time, the slab yield can be further improved. In addition, since the amount of cutting is reduced, the tool life is extended.

(3) When cutting while the rotary cutting tool is tilted in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled and in the direction perpendicular to the cutting direction In this case, both effects described in (1) and (2) above should be achieved. Can do.
That is, in (1) above, the tool life can be prevented from being deteriorated due to the thermal load, and in (2), the improvement of the slab yield and the extension of the tool life by reducing the cutting amount can be achieved.

As described above, in order to perform cutting while tilting the rotary cutting tool freely in the cutting direction of the material to be rolled and / or in the direction perpendicular to the cutting, the drive shaft is in the x, y, and z directions as in the prior art. This is not possible with a 3-axis machine.
Therefore, in the present invention, it is important to use a milling surface cutting machine having a portal gantry structure in which two pivot axes are added to the above three axes and can be moved by five axes as the drive axis of the rotary cutting tool. is there.

Next, FIG. 8 shows an overall view of the rotary cutting tool of the milling surface cutting apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 1 indicates the entire rotary cutting tool, and 2 is a cutting tip mounted on the circumference of the rotary cutting tool 1. This shows a case where a round chip cutting chip of a formula is installed.
As shown in FIG. 8, each cutting blade attached around the rotary cutting tool (cutter body) 1 is a rotary cutting tip 2 and the cylindrical edge of each cutting tip is an all-round cutting blade. . The rotary cutting tip 2 is attached to a rotating shaft incorporated on the periphery of the cutter body 1, and this rotating shaft has no drive system. Then, the rotary cutting tip 2 and the rotary tip rotating shaft are attached to the cutter body 1 at an angle such that the rotary cutting tip rolls by the cutting reaction force with respect to the cutting surface as shown in FIG. ing. Therefore, although the cutter body 1 is forcibly rotated by the drive system of the machine tool spindle, the rotary tip 2 mounted on the circumference of the cutter body 1 rotates according to the rotation of the cutter body 1 by the cutting reaction force. That is, driven rotation (hereinafter referred to as free rotation) is performed. Thus, by attaching the rotary tip 2 to the cutter body 1 so as to be driven and rotated by the cutting reaction force, the blade of the rotary tip 2 has a negative rake angle with respect to the cutting surface. In order to rotate the cutting tip more smoothly, it is preferable that the spindle has sufficient rotational slidability.

  In the present invention, the cutter body is rotated at a high speed, generally at a peripheral speed of 200 m / min or more, and the cutting tip is in contact with the hot work material or close to it. Since the time is short, the problem of heat transfer and radiant heat from the high-temperature work material to the chip is not large.

  As described above, when a rotary cutting tip is used as the cutting tip, the cutting edge can be constantly updated, so that the thermal load from the high-temperature hot work material is reduced. Cutting edge wear, which is likely to be accelerated, can be greatly reduced.

  Here, from the viewpoint of heat resistance and abrasion resistance, it is preferable to use a rotary cutting tip having a hardness of HRA of 50 or more, preferably 90 or more. Chips made of steel alloy, super heat-resistant alloy and ceramic, and those with a special coating on the chip surface can be mentioned.

In the following, preferred conditions for smoothly rotating the rotary cutting tip with the cutting reaction force according to the present invention will be described.
-Peripheral speed of rotary cutting tool: 200-3000 mpm (preferably 1000-3000 mpm)
・ Rotational cutting tool forward speed: ~ 10 mpm
・ Rotary tip diameter: 15 to 25 mm
・ Feed amount of rotary tip: 0.2 to 1.0 mm
・ The number of rotary inserts: 8-14 / (periphery of rotary cutting tool: per 250-300 mm)

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 10, the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool, spaced from the cutting tool bottom, Ru provided a shielding member 6 for blocking radiant heat from the hot slab surface.
Such shielding member, resistance heat steel advantageously suited.
It is further advantageous to coat the surface of the shielding member with a heat resistant hard material coating.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, a cooling medium is supplied from the rotation center of the cutting tool or the vicinity of the center to the gap between the shielding member and the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool or the gap between the shielding member and the hot slab surface. It is preferable to further reduce the heat load from.

And it is preferable to provide a spiral groove in the surface of the shielding member on the side facing the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool.
This is because by providing such a spiral groove, the surface area of the shielding member can be increased, which advantageously contributes to an improvement in cooling performance. Further, it is possible to further improve the cooling performance by discharging the inside of the spiral groove from the rotation center of the cutting tool or the vicinity of the center toward the outer peripheral portion.
FIG. 11 shows an example of the spiral groove 7 provided on the surface of the shielding member 6, but it goes without saying that the shape of the spiral groove 7 is not limited to this.

It is the figure which showed the surface state of the slab at the time of dividing and cutting a cutting area in a slab width direction according to the conventional method. (a) is the figure which showed the level | step difference formed when the slab surface was divided-cut according to the conventional method, (b) is the figure which showed the overlap defect produced after performing hot rolling further. It is the figure which showed the state which moves by rotating a rotary cutting tool in parallel with the slab surface according to the conventional method. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the slab from the continuous casting line to the heating furnace of a hot rolling line in this invention. It is the figure which showed the flow of the slab from the conventional continuous casting line to the heating furnace of a hot rolling line. It is the figure which showed the state which inclines (rotates forward) a rotary cutting tool in the cutting direction of a hot slab, and cuts according to this invention. It is the figure which showed the state which inclines in a perpendicular direction of cutting of a hot slab, and performs cutting according to this invention. 1 is an overall view of a rotary cutting tool of a milling surface layer cutting device according to the present invention. It is a principal part detail drawing of FIG. It is the figure which showed the state which opened the space | interval from the cutting tool bottom face, and attached the shielding member to the bottom face of the rotary cutting tool. It is the figure which showed an example of the spiral groove provided in the surface of the shielding member.

Explanation of symbols

1 Rotary cutting tool (cutter body)
2 Cutting tips (rotary cutting tips)
3 Hot slab 4 Step difference 5 Overlap defect 6 Shielding member 7 Spiral groove

Claims (6)

About the hot slab cut to a predetermined length after continuous casting, part or all of the surface layer part of one surface or two or more surfaces of the front surface, back surface, and side surfaces or a plurality of cutting blades. When performing surface care with a milling surface cutting machine with tools,
Provided on the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool with a shielding member that cuts off the radiant heat from the surface of the hot slab at an interval from the bottom surface of the cutting tool,
A cutting method for a hot slab cutting surface layer, wherein the rotary cutting tool is driven to rotate about a cutting direction of the material to be rolled and / or an axis inclined in a direction perpendicular to the cutting direction. .   2. The hot slab according to claim 1, wherein the milling type surface layer cutting device has a portal gantry structure in which a rotary cutting tool can move in five axes obtained by adding two swivel axes to three axes perpendicular to a straight line. How to care for the cutting surface layer.   The cutting surface layer portion cleaning method for a hot slab according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a cutting blade disposed around the rotary cutting tool is a rotary cutting tip. A cooling medium is supplied to the gap between the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool and the shielding member and / or the gap between the shielding member and the hot slab surface from the rotation center of the cutting tool or near the center. The cutting-type surface layer care method of the hot slab in any one of Claims 1-3 . A spiral groove is provided on the surface of the shielding member opposite to the bottom surface of the rotary cutting tool to increase the surface area of the shielding member and to supply a cooling medium supplied from or near the rotation center of the cutting tool. The cutting surface layer cleaning method for a hot slab according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the hot slab is discharged from the tool central portion toward the outer peripheral portion through the groove. The shielding member is hot cutting type surface portion Caring for slab according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that it comprises a surface coating of refractory hard material to the surface.

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