20 Years of Experience in Thin Slab Casting and Rolling State of the Art and Future Developments

Abstract:

Industrial thin slab casting and direct rolling processing started in 1989 with the world’s first CSP® plant at Crawfordsville (USA). Since this time CSP® and competing thin slab casting and direct rolling concepts have been developed to a standard process for hot strip production. Typical features of the CSP® process are the homogeneous structural and mechanical properties all along the strip. Direct hot rolling of thin slabs may be followed by a well defined cooling pattern to produce fine-grained HSLA steel or multiphase hot strip on the runout table. The product range covers low carbon as well as medium and high carbon steel grades comprising IF-, HSLA-, API-, electrical- and multiphase steel grades. CSP® processed thin hot strip is used for non-exposed parts and may substitute cold rolled strip. Hot strip from thin slab can be easily further processed to cold rolled and/or surface treated strip. Today process and material developments e.g. go for energy saving, rise in productivity, advanced surface requirements, HSLA and multiphase steel grades combining higher strength and ductility as well as multiphase steel grades for hot dip galvanizing.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 638-642)
• Pages: 3610-3615
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.638-642.3610
• Online since: January 2010
• Authors: Christian Klinkenberg, C. Bilgen, T. Boecher, J. Schlüter
• Keywords: CSP^®, Direct Rolling, DP Steel, Microalloyed, Segregation, Thin Slab Casting

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