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1. The document discusses various heat treatment processes for steels including annealing, normalizing, and hardening.
2. Annealing involves heating and slow cooling to soften steel by refining grain structure. Types include stress relief, spheroidizing, and full annealing.
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The document discusses various heat treatment processes including annealing, normalizing, hardening, tempering, and analyzing hardenability. Annealing involves heating material to relieve stresses and improve ductility. Normalizing is similar but involves faster cooling in air to refine grain structure. Hardening increases hardness through rapid quenching from austenitizing temperatures resulting in martensite formation. Tempering improves toughness of hardened steel by reheating to precipitate carbides. Hardenability is measured using the Jominy end quench test and indicates the depth of hardness achieved during quenching.
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- Normalizing also involves heating above the upper critical temperature, but the steel is air cooled to refine grain size while retaining some strength.
- Hardening greatly increases strength by heating steel to the austenitizing temperature then quenching in water or oil to form martensite.
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The document provides information about heat treatment processes for steels. It discusses various heat treatment types including softening treatments like annealing and normalizing, hardening treatments, and other processes like cyclic annealing, isothermal annealing, diffusion annealing, and sub-zero treatment. The objectives, processes, microstructure changes, advantages and applications are explained for each heat treatment type. Defects associated with hardening like steel being too soft, irregularly hard, distorted, and cracked are also outlined.
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1. Argon Protection Annealing Process Study & Application for Titanium Coil
Shiyaming Suhezhou lizhimin Liukun
Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd.
Abstract
Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. (Here after refers to
“YUNTI”) utilizes the Steckel Mill and 4-high Cold Mill
imported from Tippins Inc., USA. for Titanium coils
hot-rolling and cold-rolling. Complete production process of
Shot Blasting, Acid Pickling, Degreasing, Annealing, etc.
will be carried for Titanium Coil. This article presents
“Steel-Titanium” combination production process carried by
YUNTI. The product property and surface quality problems
have been gradually solved for cold-rolled Titanium coils
through continuous study, creative and improvement for the
Argon Protection Bell Annealing Process. It has been
achieved for process stable, quality under controlling,
commercial and batch production for cold-rolled Titanium
Coil.
Key Word
Titanium Coil, Hot Rolling, Cold Rolling, Annealing, Argon
Protection, Surface Cleanliness, Bonding
Preface
Most of the cold rolling titanium coils are pure titanium, the
production process and technical control are relatively
complicated. The titanium coils need annealing after cold
rolling, However, annealing for titanium coils under high
temperature has been a relatively complicated and difficult
process. Because titanium is chemically active, it is easy to
react with O,H,N, etc. elements in atmosphere under high
temperature, it results in a contaminant coat will be
generated on the surface, physics and chemical properties
will get worse, plasticity and and elasticity will be
decreased., the brittleness will be increased.
The present annealing process after cold rolling for titanium
coils is usually under vacuum circumstance, this process is
complicated, difficult to control, with high running cost. The
annealing process Yunti applied is under the protection
circumstance of inert gas, by electrical heating the inner bell,
the titanium coils in the inner bell under inert gas protection
are heated by radiation and convection,holding temperature
and annealing. In order to avoid the reaction with O、H、
N,etc. elements during entire annealing process, the positive
pressure of argon circulation will maintain in the inner bell
and the designed pressure is less than 10000Pa .
1 Production process flow chat of Yunti.
1.1 Process flow chat for titanium coils
production of Yunti
Yunti utilizes the Steckel Mill and 4-high Cold Mill
imported from Tippins Inc., USA. for Titanium coils
hot-rolling and cold-rolling from September 2007, then the
independent research and developed facilities of Shot
Blasting, Acid Pickling, Degreasing, Annealing, etc. has
been built to formed complete Titanium Coil hot rolling and
cold rolling production process. The process flow chat is as
shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1
Titanium coils production of Yunti take the lead in realizing
“Steel-Titanium” combination production process in China,
some processing equipments are utilized KISC’s existing
steel hot-rolling, cold-rolling, tempering, etc. facilities and
other new equipments of EB Melting Furnace, Shot Blasting,
Polish, Acid Pickling, Degreasing, Polish after Cold-rolling,
Straightening and Recoiling, Slitting, etc.are specific built
for titanium features.
1.2 The key processing equipments of titanium
2. coils annealing of Yunti
Yunti uses independent research and developed
electric-heating argon-protection bell-type annealing furnace,
which consists of work base, inner bell, heating bell, cooling
bell, valve stand, control system, auxiliary system, etc.for
Titanium coils annealing.
Figure 2 Electric-heating annealing furnace of Yunti is as
shown in Figure 2.
1-Heating Bell, 2- Inner Bell, 3-Cooling Bell, 4-Work Base,
5-Convection Plate, 6-Convection Blower
1.3 The key equipments and process for
titanium coils annealing of Yunti
In Yunti, the annealing process of titanium coils is as
follows: put the titanium coils into annealinng furnace;
replace the atmosphere in furnace by inert gases, maintain
the positive pressure in furnace below 10000Pa, heat inner
bell at a certain heating speed till the temperature is higher
than re-crystallization temperature of titanium coil and
holding the temperature ; then cool the titanium coil under
positive pressure condition till discharging temperature and
discharge the coil.
The purpose for Re-crystallization annealing of cold-rolling
titanium coils is to eliminate work hardening in the rolling
process and to recover the features of plasticity. There
processes of recovery, re-crystallization, grain size growth
will be occurred during the heating course for Cold-rolling
titanium coils. . These processes are occurred under
certain temperature range, which varies from different
material and elongation amount. As shown in Figure 3 is a
typical diagram of Bell -type annealing process for titanium
coils .
Figure 3 typical diagram of Bell -type annealing process
for titanium coils
Heating speed, holding temperature and holding time should
be mainly controlled in the annealing process. Among them,
the most critical point is to control the temperature and
atmosphere inside the furnace so that the product could meet
the requirement of property and surface quality.
2 Analysis on main problems and
Countermeasures for annealing process of
cold-rolling titanium coils
Pure titanium has feature of chemically active and
significant deformation strengthening effect after cold
working and annealing will be needed after hot-rolling and
cold-rolling. Annealing temperature should be higher than
re-crystallization temperature. Because of its chemically
active feature, titanium is easy to react with some elements,
such as O, H and N, in the air under high temperature. The
reaction leads to form oxidation film, which makes physical
and chemical properties getting worse, not only the hardness
and brittleness increasing, but also the plasticity and
elasticity decreasing. . Particular, the strong absorbability of
industrial pure titanium under high temperature will cause
surface black marks after annealing by absorbing
cold-rolling residues, carbide and dust in the heating
atmosphere in the surface of titanium. These black marks
have strong influence on the surface quality of annealing
product. Besides, the bonding problem between layers will
happen during titanium annealing in coil condition.
Consequently, according to the feature of cold-rolling
titanium coils and bell-type annealing process, the critical
points for improving and controlling surface quality will be
surface cleanliness and bonding defects control. It became
the technical difficulty about how to control the surface
quality for titanium coil annealing process after cold rolling,
and the main subject of the study on annealing is to
continuously optimize the annealing process and improve
surface condition after cold-rolling.
3. 2.1 Study and Improvement on the Surface
Cleanliness after annealing for Cold Rolling
Titanium Coil
The key to improve the surface quality of titanium coils
after annealing is to study and optimize the annealing
process. With the increasing annealing temperature,
moisture, residual oil, dust and debris taken into furnace
with work base, inside wall of inner bell, pipelines of work
base and surface of titanium coils begin to volatilize and
then form carbides and compounds when annealing at the
protected atmosphere by inert gases. These volatiles,
carbides, and compounds have a serious influence on the
surface quality for titanium coils..
.
A large amount of practical research shows that different
temperature schedules and atmosphere regular will effect on
the generation of black marks and black stripes on the
Titanium surface. The adjustment for the annealing process
will significantly improve the surface condition for reducing
black marks and black stripes. After a large number of
experimental study, it proves the carbonation and
oxidization reaction with titanium base can be effectively
avoided by maintain the volatilizing components in residual
coolant to volatilize at lower annealing temperature . The
study on volatility of cold-rolling coolant greasing additives
shows that coolant residue can effective volatilize at around
350℃, In this case, holding under this temperature for a
period of time can effectively reduce the appearance of
black marks, and the longer holding time, the more
improvement, while the improvement will not be
significant over 6 hours holding. Therefore, the
temperature schedule of annealing process will be
determined by temperature holing 2~6 hours for
volatilization . The large flow argon purging of
100~120m3/h at initial stage and 16~24m3/h flow at the
warm up stage are utilized for atmosphere purging
schedule, , so as to rapidly and effectively clean up the
surface reside after degreasing for titanium coils.
2.2 Stabilize the Utilities Conditions and
Enhance the Equipments Maintenance to
Reduce the Furnace Shutdown
The study on annealing process shows that there are much
more black marks and stripes appearance in case the furnace
are unscheduled shut down during the heating process and
resume the operation comparing with normal annealing. The
unscheduled shutdown will change pre-set heating-up
speed and corresponding purging atmosphere for cleaning .
Besides, the longer duration time of shutdown, the more
temperature drop than expected, it will cause shrinkage
rapidly between layers of titanium coils and lead to bonding
finally. Thus, it will be helpful for enhancing the
maintenance and inspection of equipments to reduce failure
and shutdown for the furnace.
2.3 Reduce the Surface Residues of Cold-rolling
Titanium Coils
As what has mentioned above, the residues of rolling
coolant except ash content shall be volatile as much
possible during the annealing process. Due to the conflict
feature of rolling lubrication of rolling coolant and
annealing cleanliness , annealing volatility will be taken
into consideration subject to rolling lubrication.
To get better surface cleanliness after annealing, firstly try to
remove the coolant on the coil surface at the cold-rolling
mill. Thus, the coolant purging system of cold-rolling mill
was improved for titanium coils rolling. It adopted
continuous higher pressure and larger flow rate for purge
system to achieve the min. residual coolant, the residues will
be cleaned to a maximum limit by degreasing line. Secondly
aiming at rolling coolant technical characteristic, adjust
coolant application parameters and source the optimum
mixing ratio by technical test and comparison to satisfy both
lubrication and surface quality requirement for different
rolling product sizes.
Table #1: Coolant concentration and Rolling Size
Correspondence Table
Total Draft
Product
Thickness (mm)
50~55% 60~70% 70~75% 75~80%
Before
80%
1.80≤h≤3.00 1.9~2.1% 2.1~2.5%
1.00≤h≤1.60 2.1~2.5%
0.60≤h≤0.90 2.5~2.7%
h≤0.50
2.5~2.7% 2.6~2.9%
2.9~
3.4%
2.4 The Surface Topography Improvements for
Cold-rolling Titanium Coils.
At earlier stage for the production of titanium coils, the
finished surface Work Rolls with roughness around Ra
4. 0.4μm are used for cold-rolling. The gaps between layers
of rolling titanium coils are smaller and it is not beneficial
for contacts between Titanium basis and not to facilitate the
volatilization of residues on the surface of titanium coils.
After Continuous studying and developing, the textured
surface Work Rolls with 1.2~2.0μm roughness machined
on laser texturing machine have been adapted for
cold-rolling by KISC. .The surface cleanliness has been
significantly improved and the bonding has been largely
reduced after annealing for coils comparing with the
application of Ra 0.4μm surface Work Roll. Therefore, the
Work Roll surface roughness application standards are
generated at Yunti for different rolling mill and product sizes
of titanium coil.
3 Bonding Prevention and Control for Cold
Rolling & Annealing
Bonding is always a quality problem along with annealing
process of titanium coils and it is a specific defect when coil
annealing by bell-type furnace. It is strain stripe with curve
shape and mostly appears crescent shape. It is easy to
generate tearing deformation and protruding during
uncoiling and lead to crescent, horseshoe or arc shape
Gravure are occurred after tempering. Mostly, the scrapped
or inferior quality product have been produced due to work
hardening lower plasticity and worse punching performance
at the bonding areas for titanium coils.
3.1The Main Reasons for Bonding Occurrence
Titanium has feature of chemically active and strong
absorption and it will be more chemically active under high
temperature when annealing with coiled titanium. Bonding
between layers will be easily occurred under the effects of
high temperature and stress and result in surface damage
of titanium coils during uncoiling and even failure for
uncoiling. During cooling procedure for the bell-type
annealing process, very high radial heat compressive stress
will be applied between layers and it makes layers press
against each other after few hours of temperature over
500 ℃. Then, bonding generates under the variable radial
heat compressive stress.
Serious bonding of titanium coils is showed in Figure 4 and
Figure 5..
Figure 4
Figure 5
The temperature varies from coil to coil for different
location in the bell-type annealing furnace as well as the
temperature also varies for same coil at different areas.
However, there is always a highest point and a lowest point
of temperature called hot point and cold point during
heating and cooling stages for each heat. Usually, hot
point is located at the edge of coil while cold point at the
inner part of coil's center zone. Because every stage of
annealing process is proceeded under certain temperature
range, the temperature difference between hot point and
cold point (usually ΔT) should be controlled in a
certain temperature range during the annealing process in
order to control annealing process, bonding and the final
properties of products.
Experimental studies found that there is close
relationship for coil' surface roughness and annealing
schedule with bonding: bonding is more occurrence
with smaller surface roughness, higher annealing
temperature, longer annealing temperature and faster
cooling speed. Aiming at this feature, cooling with heating
bell is carried on after heating stage finished, achieving
5. slow cooling to prevent bonding, the duration of slow
cooling is related to the coil charging amount and usually
it is about 2 hours. , then use normal cooling to
discharging temperature with cooling bell. Inert gases
are used during entire process of slow cooling and normal
cooling with cooling bell to protect titanium coils. Open the
inner bell till the temperature cooled down to below 80℃
and discharge the titanium coil Prolong cooling time as
much as possible to avoid bonding caused by radial thermal
comprehensive stress because of too rapid cooling..
Besides, thickness and shape deviation (flatness) of cold
rolling titanium coils will lead to stress concentration
between layers of titanium coils caused by coiling tension
and partial higher concentration of radial thermal
comprehensive stress, which will result in locally
bonding . Thus, in order to achieve higher thickness
accuracy and better strip flatness to reduce bonding
occurrence, it has been cautiously optimized for profile of
cold-rolling rolls, cold-rolling process and lubricating
process.
Therefore, corresponding measures have been developed
according to internal and external factors for titanium coil
bonding occurrence:
1) The external factors and measures to reduce annealing
bonding:
a) Control roll surface roughness to achieve as much as
possible coarse titanium coils surface by laser texturing
the surface of rolls;
b) Get the minimum deviation of cross profile
accuracy and flatness for titanium coils by roll profile
and rolling process controlling;
c) Take as small as possible coiling tension for
titanium coils before annealing.
2) The internal factors and measures to reduce annealing
bonding:
a) Lower annealing temperature as much as possible;
b) Prolong cooling time as much as possible;
c) Stabilize the running of equipments to avoid
failure and furnace shut down during in the
annealing process.
The feature of the bell-type furnace is that the temperature
of coils in the furnace is nonuniformity for different areas .
Temperature uniformity will be improved by prolong the
cooling time and the chance of bonding occurrence will be
less. While it is also pursuit goal to shorten annealing time,
improve the output, reduce the energy consumption and
lower costs. Therefore, it is the principle to determine the
cold-rolling and annealing process for shortening annealing
time, improving the output, reducing energy consumption as
much as possible subject to guarantee the product properties
uniformity and preventing bonding occurrence.
4 The Results after Cold-rolling & Annealing
4.1 Mechanical property chart before and
after annealing
Sample
Condition
Sampling
Direction
ReL/
RP0.2 MPa
Rm
MPa
A %
Yield-Stren
gth ratio
After cold
Rolled
Longitudinal 565 613 17.6 1.08
Transverse 565 636 9.4 1.13
After Cold
Rolled &
Annealing
Longitudinal 300 390 30 1.3
Transverse 355 400 28 1.13
Cold-rolling and annealing process of YUNTI has
accommodated the production of cold-rolling titanium coils
gradually by the improvement of technology and process.
appearance quality has significant improvement, and black
spots rate is descending obviously(from 80.95% to about
2%) and reflectivity of most titanium coils reaches above
75%. Besides, there are no marks of azotization and
oxidation and hydrogen embrittlement as well as bonding.
Steckel Mill and 4-high Cold Rolling Mill for steel-rolling
are used for titanium coils hot rolling and cold rolling at
Yunti, the annealing process technology and facilities have
being continuously improved. The quality of the titanium
coils can satisfy the requirement of market, The product has
been widely used for welding piping, plate heat exchanger.
It also acknowledged and widely used for varies industrial
areas. It has gained good social and economic benefits in
China.
The cold rolled titanium coils and plates produced by EB
melting and the unique original creative processing
technologies of Steckel mill for hot rolling, 4-high Cold Mill
for cold rolling and annealing shares the superior quality
and lower costs in Yunti. Most of the titanium plates in the
near future will be replaced by titanium coils. Titanium will
have higher performance-to-price ratio and its substitution
6. effect to other materials will be more obvious, which will
promote the titanium market, extend the field of application
and increase the titanium consumption.
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CONTACT
ShiYaming, general manager,mechanical engineer.
Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd.
Tugaung Town, Lufeng County, Chuxiong
Prefecture ,Yunnan Province,China.
Tel 086-0878-4831276
Fax 086-0878-4831286
Post code 651209
E-mail sym@ynkg.com kunsym@yahoo.cn
7. Mr. Shi yaming
Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd.
Booth #C
Argon Protection Annealing Process
Study & Application for Titanium Coil
8. Contents
Preface Production process
flow chat of Yunti
Analysis &Countermeasures
for annealing process Bonding Prevention
and Control for Cold
Rolling & Annealing
The Results after Cold-Rolling
& Annealing
0 1
2
3
4
9. Preface
Most of the cold rolling titanium coils are pure titanium, the
production process are very complex. Normally, the titanium
coils need annealing after cold rolling. However, annealing for
titanium coils under high temperature has been a very
complex and difficult issue. Because titanium is very active, it
will react with O,H,N in atmosphere very easily when it is
under high temperature, there will be a contaminant coat on its
surface, physics and chemical performance will be bad, plastic
behavior and degree of elasticity will reduce, the brittleness
will increase.
10. Preface
The present annealing process after cold rolling is
mostly under vacuum. The annealing process Yunti
applied is under the protection of inert gas, by
heating the internal bell to heat, keep worm, cooling
and annealing, in order to protect the reaction with
O、H、N, during annealing process, there is argon
circulation with a little bit positive pressure and the
designed pressure is less than 10000Pa inside the
bell.
11. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
1.1 Process flow chat for titanium coils production
Yunti utilizes the Twin Steckel Mill and 4-high Cold Mill
imported from Tippins Inc., USA. for Titanium coils hot-
rolling and cold-rolling from September 2007, then the
self-research machine for Shot Blasting, Acid Pickling,
Degreasing, Annealing, etc. will be carried for Titanium
Coil.
12. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
Titanium coils production of Yunti is the first one to
realize “Steel-Titanium” combination production
process in China, part of processing equipment using
KISC’s existing steel Hot-rolling mill , Cold-rolling mill,
Temper rolling mill, etc. and others using new
equipment for the particularity of Titanium.
24. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
1.2 The key equipment of titanium coils annealing
of Yunti
Yunti uses self-researched argon-protected
annealing furnace for Titanium coils.
26. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
1.3 Annealing Process of Titanium Coils In Yunti
In Yunti, the process of annealing is: firstly titanium coils
should be put into anneal furnace; secondly, the gases in
furnace should be replaced by argon, the pressure in furnace
should be kept positive and less than 10000Pa, then heat
titanium coils until the temperature is higher than
recrystallization at a certain heating rate of titanium coils and
make thermal insulation; finally, under positive pressure
condition, discharge titanium coils after they are cooled until
tapping temperature.
27. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
Cold-rolling titanium coils in heating will have
three different stages: recovery, recrystallization
and grain growth.
28. Annealing Process of Titanium Coils In Yunti
Improvement and adjustment on annealing process
29. 1.Production process flow chat of Yunti
Heating rate, holding temperature and
holding time should be mainly
controlled in the annealing process.
30. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
The bonding problem between layers
might also happen during annealing
the piles of titanium coils.
31. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
According to the feature of cold-rolling
titanium coils and Bell-type annealing
process, we should focus on the control
of surface cleanliness and bonding defect
to ensure surface quality.
32. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
When annealing in the inert gas atmosphere,
the volatiless have enormous influence on the
surface quality with the annealing
temperature increased.
33. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
It was found by a large numbers of experiment, that
trying to volatilize components in residual emulsion at
lower temperature as much as possible can prevent
oxidization reaction between volatiles and titanium at
higher temperature.
34. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
2.2 Reduce the Surface Residues of Cold-rolling
Titanium Coils
As mentioned above, the contaminant of emulsion
residue except ash should volatile as possible in the
annealing process. But because rolling lubrication of
rolled oil and annealing detergency conflict with each
other, getting better annealing volatility should be on the
premise of rolling lubrication.
35. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
To get better annealing surface cleanliness, try to
clean on the cold-rolling mill as much as possible to
have the least residue which will be cleaned to a
maximum limit by degreasing. Besides, Then the best
ratio need to be found based on rolling oil technical
characteristic. The specification of 4-high Cold Mill for
cold rolling as following.
36. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing
process
Coolant concentration and Rolling Product Size Correspondence
Deformation rate(%)
Product gauge(mm) 50~55% 60~70% 70~75% 75~80% Over 80%
1.80≤h≤3.00 1.9~2.1% 2.1~2.5%
1.00≤h≤1.60 2.1~2.5%
0.60≤h≤0.90 2.5~2.7%
h≤0.50
2.6~2.9% 2.9~3.4%
37. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
2.3 Make sure Maintenance of Equipment to Reduce faults
The study on annealing process showed that
discontinuous annealing interrupted by blowing out in
heating process would produce more black plots and
black tapes compared with normal annealing. Blowing
out will change scheduled heating-up rate.
38. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
Besides, longer time of blowing out could increase
cooling rate, which causes shrinkage rapidly
between layers of titanium coils and leads to
bonding finally. So, we should strengthen
examination and maintenance of equipment and
reduce fault and blowing out.
39. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
2.4 The Improvement of Surface Topography of Cold-
rolling Titanium Coil
Surface roughness of smooth cold rolling rollers is
about Ra 0.4μm.Since the gap between layers of
rolling titanium coils is very small. It is not easy for
titanium coils matrix to contact argon and volatilization
of residue on the surface of titanium coils.
40. 2. Analysis &Countermeasures for annealing process
Continuous study showed that using the cold
rolling rollers textured by KISC laser texturing
machine (their roughness is 1.2~2.0μm) would
improve cleanliness and reduce bonding.
41. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
It is easy to form bonding between layers of titanium
coil under the effect of temperature stress and cause
surface damage of titanium coils and even not to
uncoil. During cooling procedure in the cover-type
annealing process, very high radial heat compressive
stress might occur between layers. It would generate
bonding
42. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
Serious bonding of titanium coils is shown in below Figures.
Figure 1 Figure 2
43. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
3.1 The Main Reasons for Bonding Occurrence
The temperature at different positions of coils is
different. The temperature difference (called ∆T)
between hot point and cold point should be controlled in
order to control bonding.
44. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
Experimental studies found that the bonding has a
close relationship with coils' surface roughness,
and annealing schedules. It is easier to generate
bonding with higher annealing temperature, longer
annealing time, faster cooling rate and smaller
surface roughness.
45. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
Besides, the deviation of thickness and flatness of
cold rolling titanium coils would cause partial
concentration too big leading to local bonding. Thus,
the thickness accuracy and flatness should be
optimized to reduce bonding.
46. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
Therefore, corresponding measures are take to prevent
bonding from coming into being:
The external factors and measures to reduce annealing
bonding:
a. control surface roughness by laser texturing the
surface of rolls;
b. get the minimum thickness deviation and flatness;
c. take small tension of coils.
47. 3. Bonding Prevention and Control for
Cold Rolling & Annealing
The internal factors and measures to reduce annealing
bonding:
a. low annealing temperature;
b. long cooling time;
c. steady function of equipment to avoid fault and
blowing out in annealing process.
48. 4.The Results after Cold-Rolling & Annealing
4.1 Mechanical property chart before and after annealing
Sample Condition
Sampling
Direction
RP0.2
MPa
Rm
MPa
A 50
%
Yield
Strenghratio
After cold Rolled
Longitudinal 565 613 17.6 1.08
Transverse 565 636 9.4 1.13
After Annealing
Longitudinal 300 390 30.0 1.3
Transverse 355 400 28.0 1.13
49. 4.The Results after Cold-Rolling & Annealing
YUNTI has accommodated the production of cold-
rolling titanium coils gradually by the improvement of
technology and process. there are no marks of
oxidation and hydrogen embrittlement or bonding.
Therefore, the quality meet the requirement of
customer.
By EB melting and the original processing
technologies of twin steckel mill of hot rolling, cold
rolling and annealing in Yunti, the products-cold
rolled titanium coils have good quality and low cost.
52. 4.The Results after Cold-Rolling & Annealing
By improving the annealing process and
equipment, the quality of Yunti titanium coil satisfy
the requirement of market, the products have
been used on the welding pipe for desalination
equipment, electrochemical industry, plate heat
exchanger industry, Yunti has been widely
recognized by customer.