2. Hot Rolling Mill
Fig. 16 – General layout of a large capacity hot strip mill (Sollac Fos sur Mer)

3. Dofasco #2 Hot Strip Mill
Runout Table
Finishing Mill
Reheat Furnaces
Coilers
Rougher
Slab
216 mm
Transfer Bar
~30 mm
Strip
mm thick
mm wide

4. Advanced Hot Mills

5. Gallatin Steel (CSP)

6. Thin Strip Casting

7. Figure 3.8 Walking beam furnace at SSAB, Domnarvet.
Reheating Furnaces
Figure 3.8 Walking beam furnace at SSAB, Domnarvet.
Figure 3.9 Evaporative cooling system on walking-beam furnace at SSAB, Domnarvet.

8. Reheating Furnaces
Figure 3.7 Sketches illustrating operation of a walking-beam furnace.

9. Figure 3.5 Heating time as a function of slab thickness.
Slab Reheating
Figure 3.5 Heating time as a function of slab thickness.
Figure 3.6 Furnace heating capacity as a function of slab thickness.

10. Rolling Stand

11. Mill Housing
Figure No. 2
MILL HOUSING

12. Mill Stand
Figure No. 3
Mill Stand Elevation

13. Strip Edge Drop
Figure 19 Elastic deformation of roll assembly under rolling condition.

14. Strip Shape
Shape Calculation
Diagram 7

15. Figure 12 Continuously Variable Crown (CVC)
CVC Crown Control
Figure 12 Continuously Variable Crown (CVC)

16. Pair Cross Mill
Figure 7.1 Construction of PC mill (Tsukamoto and Matsumoto).

17. Cold Mill Layout
Figure 1 Typical layout and material flow of a cold rolling mill.

18. Table 6.3 Design Characteristics of a Modern Pickling Line
Dimensions
Line speeds
Strip thickness: 1 to 6 mm
Strip width 1000 to 1850 mm
Coil OD maximum: 2200 mm
Coil ID entry: 620 to 850 mm
Coil ID exit: 600 mm
Coil weight: 39 tons
Threading: 20 to 60 m/min.
Entry speed: 600 m/min.
Speed in pickling: 220 m/min.
Exit speed: 350 m/min.
Acceleration time: 10 seconds.
Emergency stop: 5 seconds.
Line length: 200 meters.
Figure 6.11 Component of typical push-pull picking line (Rippin and Mattiusi).

19. Microstructure Evolution During Cold Rolling
Deformation
Work hardening

20. Figure 10 4-high reversing cold rolling and temper mill
Cold Rolling Mill
Figure 10 4-high reversing cold rolling and temper mill

21. Tandem Cold Mill
Figure 24 Main equipment of tandem cold mill.

22. Cleaning Line
Figure 23.1 Schematic arrangement of a typical electrolytic cleaning line.

23. Figure 23.12 Time-temperature cycles.
Batch Annealing
Figure Single-stck coil-annealing furnace with base, fan, inner cover and fan coils with convectors (Rao et al.)
Figure Time-temperature cycles.

24. Figure 23.76 Layout of the continuous annealing and processing line.
No. 1 payoff reel.
Rinse tank.
Side trimmer.
No. 2 payoff reel.
Entry looping tower.
Oiler.
Hot caustic tank.
Furnace.
No. 1 and No. 2 tension reels.
No. 1 brush scrubber.
Exit loop car.
Electronic tank.
Temper mill.
No. 2 brush scrubber.
Tension leveller.

25. Figure 24.3 Yield strength variation with elongation.
Temper Rolling
Figure 24.3 Yield strength variation with elongation.
Figure 24.2 Stress-strain curves: (a) box-annealed rimmed deep-drawing steel; (b)diagram illustrating offset method for determining yield strength.

26. Temper Mill
Figure Layout of temper and processing line (TPL( facility (Fujiwara et al.).