Exploiting Annealing Reactions for New Steel Grade Development. Overseas steel markets are demanding thinner and cheaper formable products. The proposed work aims to establish how the reactions that take place during annealing can be exploited to create new products to meet these needs. The processes of recrystallization texture development, which controls the ease with which the product can be drawn into shapes, precipitate dissolution, which impacts on surface quality, and creep, which can lea ....Exploiting Annealing Reactions for New Steel Grade Development. Overseas steel markets are demanding thinner and cheaper formable products. The proposed work aims to establish how the reactions that take place during annealing can be exploited to create new products to meet these needs. The processes of recrystallization texture development, which controls the ease with which the product can be drawn into shapes, precipitate dissolution, which impacts on surface quality, and creep, which can lead to annealing defects in thin products will be studied. The objective is use the knowledge generated to remove over-design of processing parameters and steel composition to develop new cost effective export grades.Read moreRead less
Effect of Chromium and Manganese on the Formations of Graphite and Carbide on the surface of Low Carbon Sheet Steels. Surface graphite and surface carbide are two surface defects observed in cold-rolled low carbon steel sheets after batch annealing under non-oxidising atmosphere. The surface defects detract from the appearance of the steel sheets and diminish the surface treatment potential of the sheets, causing significant and costly material losses. The aims of the project are to study the in ....Effect of Chromium and Manganese on the Formations of Graphite and Carbide on the surface of Low Carbon Sheet Steels. Surface graphite and surface carbide are two surface defects observed in cold-rolled low carbon steel sheets after batch annealing under non-oxidising atmosphere. The surface defects detract from the appearance of the steel sheets and diminish the surface treatment potential of the sheets, causing significant and costly material losses. The aims of the project are to study the inhibition of surface graphite formation by the additions of Chromium and Manganese and to study the mechanism of formation of surface carbide with the aim of developing an alloying / processing strategy which eliminates both the surface graphite and the surface carbide.Read moreRead less
Optimisation of Nanostructure in new Microalloyed Strip Cast Steels for Control of Properties. Australia is an internationally competitive producer of steel and stands to benefit from the improvements in steel design made possible by a more fundamental understanding of the relationship between steel nanostructure and steel properties and performance. Using targeted microalloying additions, this project aims to develop a new class of strip cast steels that can serve entirely new applications and ....Optimisation of Nanostructure in new Microalloyed Strip Cast Steels for Control of Properties. Australia is an internationally competitive producer of steel and stands to benefit from the improvements in steel design made possible by a more fundamental understanding of the relationship between steel nanostructure and steel properties and performance. Using targeted microalloying additions, this project aims to develop a new class of strip cast steels that can serve entirely new applications and so open up new market growth opportunities in Australia's manufacturing industry. This research falls under the national research priority 'Frontier Technologies for Transforming Australian Industry'.Read moreRead less