Overheating Steel in an Annealing Furnace

Annealing furnaces are used to heat steel in order to change its microstructure and mechanical properties. The steel strips passing through such furnaces must be heated evenly, otherwise defects in the product may occur. Such defects commonly occur near the edges of the steel. Annealing furnaces hav...

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Main Authors: Taylor, S W, Wang, S
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Summary:Annealing furnaces are used to heat steel in order to change its microstructure and mechanical properties. The steel strips passing through such furnaces must be heated evenly, otherwise defects in the product may occur. Such defects commonly occur near the edges of the steel. Annealing furnaces have a high throughput and much thermal inertia so the occurrence of defects can potentially result in a large quantity of wasted product. Thus it is important to have a good mathematical model of this edge heating in order to explain how it occurs and to know what measures to take to avoid it. In this talk, we discuss such a model.
ISSN:0094-243X
DOI:10.1063/1.3241369