Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2002
Using an IF-steel, the application of ferritic rolling in the thin slab direct rolling technology has been studied with the objective of producing thin hot rolled strip with good deep-drawing properties. The effect of the main processing parameters has been simulated in the case of the production of two types of finished products: "soft" hot strip (completely recrystallized during coiling), "hard" strip (obtained with low finishing and coiling temperatures and subsequently annealed).