To improve the accuracy of temperature prediction of high carbon steel in ROT of hot-rolling mill, the influencing factors in temperature calculation such as transformation kinetics and enthalpy change were investigated using heat equation. The transf...
To improve the accuracy of temperature prediction of high carbon steel in ROT of hot-rolling mill, the influencing factors in temperature calculation such as transformation kinetics and enthalpy change were investigated using heat equation. The transformation kinetics was measured with dilatation curve and compared to the calculated one by current model. Enthalpy change was attempted to measure. It was successful at a specific temperature, but not measurable at the lower temperature due to an experimental limitation. Enthalpy change data from the model was compared to the one from the recently released thermodynamic database. It was proved that inaccurate evaluation of transformation kinetics is mainly responsible for incorrect temperature prediction, besides, reliability on thermodynamic quantities such as enthalpy change associated with the phase transformation needs to be improved for better temperature prediction. This study reveals that vigorous consideration of transformation kinetics and thermodynamic quantity will provide better accuracy in temperature prediction in particular high carbon steel.