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The Effects of Cooling Mode on the Properties of Ti–Nb Microalloyed High-strength Hot-rolled Steels

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The industrial trials of two cooling modes, i e, water cooling in forepart + air cooling in later part (WAC) and air cooling in forepart + water cooling in later part (AWC), were carried out for a Ti-Nb microalloyed steel. The average cooling rates and coiling temperature were the same for two modes. The continuous cooling transformation (CCT) curve of the tested steel was drawn. The effects of the cooling mode on the microstructure, precipitates, and properties of the steels were investigated. Results show that the strength of the steel in the WAC mode is significantly larger than that in the AWC mode, mainly because the smaller the grain size, the more and finer the grain precipitates. Therefore, when the average cooling rate is constant, the fast cooling in the forepart is an effective method to increase the strength of steels. However, the increase in the strength is accompanied by the decrease in toughness, so that the toughness of the steel should be considered when changing the cooling mode.

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Key Laboratory for Ferrous Metallurgy and Resources Utilization of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China

    Min Zhu  (朱敏), Guang Xu  (徐光), Mingxing Zhou & Haijiang Hu

  2. Research and Development Center of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp, Wuhan, 430080, China

    Min Zhu  (朱敏)

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Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51274154), the National High-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2012AA03A504), Research and Development Center of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp

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Zhu, M., Xu, G., Zhou, M. et al. The Effects of Cooling Mode on the Properties of Ti–Nb Microalloyed High-strength Hot-rolled Steels. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 34, 692–697 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-019-2105-z

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