A control method for a roller quenching process of a heavy-piece weight and large-section ultra-heavy plate has a specific heat model, heat transfer coefficient model, temperature field model and correction model. Plate parameters inputted include thickness, length and carbon content, technological procedure, roller speed and acceleration. Measured parameters include tapping temperature, temperature after air cooling and temperature after self-tempering. The temperature field model is used. Specific heat model and the heat transfer coefficient model are invoked for calculating an air cooling stage, water cooling stage and self-tempering stage in sequence. Temperature fields are corrected through the correction model. Simulated results include a group of cooling curves and cooling speed curves at different thicknesses. Practical temperature drop curves and cooling speed curves are obtained in combination with actual production and part of actual debugging process is replaced by model calculation.

The present invention describes a method of dynamical adjustment for manufacturing a thermally treated steel sheet. The method includes: A. a control step, wherein at least one sensor detects a deviation happening during the thermal treatment, B. a calculation step performed when the deviation is detected during the thermal treatment such that a new thermal path TP.sub.target is determined to reach m.sub.target taking the deviation into account, such calculation step including: 1) a calculation substep, wherein at least two thermal path, TP.sub.x corresponding to one microstructure m.sub.x obtained at the end of TP.sub.x, are calculated based on TT and the microstructure m.sub.i of the steel sheet to reach m.sub.target, 2) a selection substep wherein one new thermal path TP.sub.target to reach m.sub.target is selected, TP.sub.target being chosen from said TP.sub.x and being selected such that m.sub.x is the closest to m.sub.target, C. a new thermal treatment step, wherein TP.sub.target is performed online on the steel sheet.

The present invention provides a method of dynamical adjustment for manufacturing a thermally treated steel sheet.

A system is provided for manufacturing a pipe bend, including: a securement structure including a securement device configured to secure a first end of a pipe and a pivot arm coupled to the securement device and configured to pivot about a pivot point to introduce a bend in the pipe; an induction ring configured to heat an annular band of a wall of the pipe; a first quenching ring configured to direct a first quenching fluid toward an outer surface of the heated annular band in the wall of the pipe; a second quenching ring configured to direct a second quenching fluid toward an inner surface of the heated annular band in the wall of the pipe; and a processor configured to control release of the first quenching fluid and the second quenching fluid such that the first quenching fluid reaches the outer surface and the second quenching fluid reaches the inner surface substantially concurrently.

A hot-shapable uncoated steel-plate workpiece is press hardened by first transporting the plate through a heating zone continuously or discontinuously and there heating the plate to an austenitizing temperature while blocking entry of oxygen into the heating zone. Then the heated plate is cooled in a cooling zone to a martensitizing temperature below the austenitizing temperature without contacting the heated plate with oxygen. Finally, immediately and without cooling of the cooled workpiece to a martensite start temperature, the cooled workpiece is deformed at least partially in a finishing press into a desired shape.

A method for cooling a steel strip, comprising jetting mist to a steel strip passing through a cooling installation such that an amount of mist jetted to the steel strip is smaller in an edge portion in a width direction of the steel strip than in a center portion, sucking at least part of mist jetted to the steel strip, and cooling the steel strip at a sheet-passing speed such that, during a period between start and end of cooling, a temperature of the steel strip is within a film boiling temperature range and a temperature of the edge portion in the width direction of the steel strip is equal to or higher than a temperature of the center portion in at least a range of or more from the upstream side in the sheet-passing direction of a total cooling length of the cooling installation.

The invention relates to the field of heat treatment of metals and may be used for hardening the railway transport automatic coupler parts. The hardening method includes induction heating of the automatic coupler and its subsequent cooling. The induction heating is performed within the automatic coupler part working surface area. The heated surface is cooled by water fed through openings in the coil body.

As sections of a rolled product (1) pass through a cooling path (2), they are initially cooled in a first cooling phase by front cooling devices (6). The sections are then not cooled in a subsequent second cooling phase. They are finally cooled again in a subsequent third cooling phase, by rear cooling devices (8) of the cooling path (2). A control device (10) of the cooling path receives in each case an initial energy value (EA) exhibited by the sections before they pass through the cooling path (2). The control device furthermore receives a target energy (E1*) and a target enthalpy (E2*). The control device (10) determines a first target cooling medium profile (K1*) on the basis of the initial energy value (EA) and the target energy (E1*). The control device controls the front cooling devices (6) in accordance with the first target cooling medium profile (K1*) while the respective section is passing through the front cooling devices (6). The control device (10) determines a second target cooling medium profile (K2) on the basis of an expected enthalpy for the respective section in the second cooling phase and the target enthalpy (E2*). The control device controls the rear cooling devices (8) in accordance with the second target cooling medium profile (K2*) while the respective section of the rolled product (1) is passing through the rear cooling devices (8).

The apparatus serves for inhomogeneous cooling of a flat object with a first main face and a second main face opposite the first main face. The flat object is cooled by a cooling device from the direction of the first main face. On the second main face, a heating device locally acts upon a first partial face in such a way that the flat object is subjected to heat at said first partial face relative to a second partial face adjoining said first partial face in such a way that said first partial face is cooled more slowly in comparison with the second partial face and, during the cooling process, the second main face of the flat object therefore has an inhomogeneous temperature distribution at least in a partial time period of the cooling.

A quench system includes an enclosure defining a quench chamber sized to receive hot castings, and bulk air fans in fluid communication with the quench chamber and configured to establish a bulk flow of cooling air that surrounds and extracts heat from the hot castings at a first cooling rate. The quench system also includes a pressurized cooling system in fluid communication with a plurality of nozzles within the quench chamber and configured to spray a plurality of a directed flows of cooling fluid onto the hot castings to extract heat at a second cooling rate. The quench system further includes a programmable controller configured to sequentially activate the bulk air fans to cool the casting at the first cooling rate for a first predetermined period of time, and then activate the pressurized cooling system to cool the casting at the second cooling rate for a second predetermined period of time.