Intercritical Thermomechanical Treatments Applied to the Steel Heavy Plates

Abstract

This paperwork shows the laboratory experiments made on X60 and X65 steels with several intercritical thermomechanical treatment applications. Two variants were used: "down-up" thermomechanical treatment with heating and rolling in the intercritical range and "up-down" thermomechanical treatment with preliminary complete austenitizing and rolling in the intercritic interval. High values of the strength characteristics and a good plasticity were obtained. A comparison was made with the obtained results of the classical thermal treatment application (normalizing).