A cooling device for cooling a metallic item and a method for operating the cooling device. Such cooling devices having a plurality of cooling bars arranged in parallel in groups for applying a coolant to the metallic item are known in the prior art. In order to be able to set a desired distribution function of the coolant over the width of the metallic item as precisely as possible, the cooling device provides that similar application regions in at least two cooling bars within a group are each formed differently with respect to their contour and/or with respect to their surface area.

An embodiment of the present invention provides wear-resistant steel having excellent hardness and impact toughness and a method for producing same, wherein the wear-resistant steel comprises: 0.29-0.37 wt % of carbon (C), 0.1-0.7 wt % of silicon (Si), 0.6-1.6 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.05 wt % or less of phosphorus (P), 0.02 wt % or less of sulfur (S), 0.07 wt % or less of aluminum (Al), 0.1-1.5 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.01-0.8 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.01-0.08 wt % of vanadium (V), 50 ppm or less of boron (B), and 0.02 wt % or less of cobalt (Co); further comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of 0.5 wt % or less of nickel (Ni), 0.5 wt % or less of copper (Cu), 0.02 wt % or less of titanium (Ti), 0.05 wt % or less of niobium (Nb), and 2-100 ppm of calcium (Ca); and comprises the remainder of Fe and other inevitable impurities.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of high-efficiency, high-precision and high-performance laser bending of metal sheets, and relates to a line-shape spot laser bending method for metal sheets. The present invention uses a multimode laser scanning mirror or a single piezoelectric deformable mirror to convert laser Gaussian distributed point spots to uniformly distributed line-shape spot, and meanwhile, loads the spots in a bending line area and bends metal sheets so that the temperature field in the bending line of the metal sheet is distributed uniformly to achieve the purposes of reducing warpage deformation, enhancing bending angle consistency and increasing the bending efficiency.

A cooling apparatus for cooling a metallic material has at least one cooling beam with a plurality of coolant application elements for applying the metallic material with a coolant. Each coolant application element has an outlet opening with a cross-sectional area for discharging the coolant. In order to be able to adapt such known cooling apparatuses even more precisely to different temperature distributions across the width of the metallic material to be cooled the density of the cross-sectional areas of the outlet openings of the coolant application elements in the width direction y of the cooling beam be distributed or dimensioned according to the amount of the slope of the distribution of the temperature T(y) of the metallic material across its width before the inlet under the cooling beam.

A continuous induction heat treating apparatus is provided including a conveyor path defining an axis for a workpiece to be conveyed through the apparatus. The apparatus includes an induction heating station positioned along the conveyor path and operable to induce heating in the workpiece as the workpiece is conveyed through the induction heating station. A quenching station is positioned in a downstream direction from the induction heating station. The quenching station is coupled to a water supply and includes a plurality of sprayers in fluid communication with the water supply and operable to spray water toward the axis for quenching the workpiece as the workpiece is conveyed through the quenching station. The apparatus further includes a quench adjustment mechanism including an actuator coupled to at least a first one of the plurality of sprayers for re-positioning a point of intersection defined between the first sprayer and the axis.

Cooling equipment comprising: a plurality of injection units in a continuous annealing furnace including heating zone, soaking zone, and cooling zone through which strip-shaped steel sheet is sequentially fed, the injection units arranged in cooling zone in row along feed direction of steel sheet and injecting, from injection nozzles, cooling gas containing hydrogen, onto steel sheet; and hydrogen concentration adjustment unit adjusts hydrogen concentration of cooling gas such that hydrogen concentration distribution is formed in which, in a space of the cooling zone where plurality of injection units are disposed, hydrogen concentration at upstream region is higher than hydrogen concentration at downstream region; plurality of injection nozzles arranged along feed direction of steel sheet, and each of injection nozzles extending toward steel sheet; and injection nozzles positioned at both sides in array direction inclined to slope toward a center of the array direction on progression toward tips of injection nozzles.

A process for reducing film boiling by keeping the quenchant pressure above the vapor pressure of the liquid quenchant, and/or using a controlled quenchant renewal to more uniformly cool the surface of part at the initial moment of contact and apparatuses to conduct the pressure and controlled quenchant renewal are disclosed. It is believed that these processes will improve the heat treating of parts with intricate geometries to provide predictable part distortion. The applicability of the method to gun barrels, tubes, round rings, and hollow axles is explained.

An on-line intelligent control method for the cooling characteristics of a quenching liquid in heat treatment production includes the steps of: step 1: subjecting a workpiece to thermal insulation; step 2: measuring the cooling characteristics and the heat transfer coefficient of a quenching liquid followed by correction; step 3: starting cooling; step 4: then changing the internal circulation rate; and step 5: removing the workpiece. This scheme can effectively avoid the problem that the cooling of a workpiece in industrial production deviates from the ideal cooling characteristics of a quenching liquid obtained in a laboratory.

An object-processing method applies a specific process to an object to be processed by connecting a power source to the object to be processed.

A device to cool a steel material having undergone hot rolling mills, the device including: a conveying mechanism which conveys the steel material while accelerating the steel material; a water cooling mechanism which cools the steel material while the conveying mechanism conveys the steel material; and a control unit which controls the conveying mechanism and the water cooling mechanism to cause the cooling of the steel material to satisfy Formula (1) below, wherein a water cooling time decrease rate in Formula (1) below is decided based on a length of a water cooling zone where the water cooling mechanism is provided and a time t.sub.c(0) required to cool a leading end portion of the steel material down to a target temperature,

t.sub.c(x)=t.sub.c(0).Math.xFormula (1),

where x: a conveyance-direction position in the steel material relative to the leading end portion of the steel material serving as a reference point, and t.sub.c(x): a time required to cool a portion at the position x of the steel material down to the target temperature.