A flexible and compact continuous annealing line, having the possibility to adapt very quickly the annealing parameters to the grades and/or formats to be produced, should reduce yield losses due to transient parts of the coils compared to conventional continuous annealing. Such a compact...

This project was dedicated to the development of submodels to predict the different phase transformations during each step of continuous annealing cycles or galvanising cycles, that means during the soaking, the primary cooling, and the overageing section. The validation of these microstructural...

This project has studied the effect of steel composition and processing parameters in order to develop a soft deep drawing quality which combines the following characteristics: high n-value ( 0.22), low ageing sensitivity (AI < 20MPa), sufficient bake hardening (BH2 > 35MPa) and good deep drawability (high r-value). The work was divided...</20mpa),>