Our Annual Young Member's Paper competition offers a valuable prize and opportunity for an overseas visit. Here are some previous winning entries:
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Below is a list of the addresses and presentations made, please click on any row to download a PDF version of the address.
| Speaker |
Company |
Subject |
Size |
| Mark Nickerson |
Corus - BBM Technical Dept |
Bulge and Bite rolling at the Bloom & Billet Mill |
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| Mark's winning Young Member's Paper describes a novel rolling technique to reduce 'fishtailing' when rolling semi-finished products, which gives dramatic yield improvements. |
| Mr Andrew Wilson |
Corus - Long Products Div |
The Development of the Pre-Cambering Process for Ultra Long Rails at the Medium Section Mill |
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| Young Member's Paper Winner 2010.
This paper aims to describe the current understanding of cooling distortion of
rails and pre-cambering strategies gained over the last three years, which has
led to a world-class performance at the Medium Section Mill (MSM). At the
start of the commissioning process for rail in 2006, very little was known about
pre-cambering rails over 80m in length and previously used parabola type
pre-camber shapes proved to be unsuccessful. Very little information has
been published on the subject of cooling distortion and therefore a new theory
to explain the behaviour of ultra long rails upon cooling had to be deduced
from first principles. |
| Dr Fredric Montfort |
Corus - Scunthorpe, UK |
Development of Bainitic Rail Steel |
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| Bainitic steels are being considered as possible candidates to replace the traditional pearlitic rail
steels, as carbide free bainites developed for rail applications have shown increased ductility and
toughness compared with pearlitic rails. This paper reviews (a) the basic principles of steel
metallurgy, (b) the importance of heat treatments that lead to the formation of pearlitic and bainitic
rail steels and (c) the characteristics of rail bainitic microstructures and their mechanical
properties. The manufacturing process of bainitic rail steel is described, including steelmaking,
casting, rolling and rail finishing. Finally, the value of bainitic rail steel, which is a differentiated
product, is also outlined. |
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| Mr Neil P Hardy |
Corus, Scunthorpe |
Increasing Rolling Rates on Special Plates |
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| During thermomechanical controlled rolling hold periods cause delays, if these can be
reduced then the throughput can be increased. The Technology Developments section of the
Plates Technical department at Scunthorpe Plate Mill conducted a project to investigate how
the roughing mill de-scaling sprays could be used to increase the cooling rates of normalised
rolled (NR) and thermo mechanically controlled rolled (TMCR) products during the hold
period. |
| Chris Lisle |
Corus - Steelmaking Technical Dept. |
The Development of Rare Earth Particle Dispersed Steels |
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| The desirable properties of strength and toughness have traditionally been achieved in
steel by promoting a fine-grained microstructure through control of the austenite-toferrite
phase transformation such that the nucleation of ferrite crystals takes place at
the boundaries of fine austenite grains. A new development by Corus looks to achieve
an alternative method of refinement, using a high-density dispersion of fine rare earth
sulphide particles to nucleate ferrite inside the austenite grains. An introduction to
rare earth elements is given in this paper and the history of the development of their
use is outlined. Details of the experimental work done by Corus are described, leading
to a discussion on how a full-scale production trial might proceed, and the value of
such a development to Corus as a company. |
| Dr. K.L. Lee |
Corus - Rods Technical Dept. |
Benefits of Boron treatment in medium carbon steel |
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| This paper aims to illustrate the influence of (unprotected) boron addition on the
tensile strength, microstructure and drawability of medium carbon steel produced at
Scunthorpe Rod Mill (SRM). The addition of boron has been found to provide significant
improvements in the as-rolled rod tensile properties and microstructure. These
improvements are due to boron initially combining with the free nitrogen, which improved
the ductility, followed by the excess boron providing a marked increase in pearlite
hardenability. This results in a microstructure containing a much lower fraction of ferrite
and a finer pearlite than the conventional plain carbon steel. Customers’ feedback on the
performance of boron treated grades has been very encouraging. They have reported that
the boron treated steel showed superior drawability and mechanical properties compared
to the conventional plain carbon steel during conversion to helical wire for bedding and
seating applications. |