Tenaris offers hot induction bends using a process that improves mechanical properties. HIB followed by off-line full quenching in a tank plus tempering produces a more homogeneous product. Traditional HIB gives place to less homogenous microstructures among the different portions of the final bend.
Tenaris offers hot induction bends using a process that improves mechanical properties. HIB followed by off-line full quenching in a tank plus tempering produces a more homogeneous product. Traditional HIB gives place to less homogenous microstructures among the different portions of the final bend.
Tenaris offers hot induction bends using a process that improves mechanical properties. HIB followed by off-line full quenching in a tank plus tempering produces a more homogeneous product. Traditional HIB gives place to less homogenous microstructures among the different portions of the final bend.
Tenaris offers hot induction bends using a process that improves mechanical properties.
Background behaviour as a function of Tenaris’s characterization
Bends for Line Pipe projects the chemical composition, program analyzed as-bent can be produced using two grain size, deformation samples and tempering different manufacturing temperature and strain level. curves. The results showed processes. In the traditional Data collected during the microstructures that were more method, Hot Induction hot tensile tests helped to than 50% ferrite, revealing the Bending (HIB) is followed by define the set up parameters low quenching efficiency of the Stress Relieving (SR). With the of the trials performed and on-line water cooling. second process, HIB is followed increased understanding of by off-line full quenching in a how the process affects bends Hot deformability test tank plus tempering (Q&T). metallurgy. performed on different steels Although the traditional showed a very common Tenaris’s industrial ▼
method is fast and less Results yielding mechanism.
experience with bends expensive, Q&T produces a The traditional process gives produced by HIB followed more homogeneous product. place to less homogeneous Results of these trials were by off-line full Q&T microstructures among the compared to Tenaris’s shows uniform mechanical Aim different portions of the industrial experience with properties and no Two years ago, Tenaris, final bend (tangent lengths, bends produced by HIB corrosion failures. working with European transition zones and bend followed by off-line full benders, started a full body), as well as between the Q&T. Bends produced with characterization program to different characteristic axes this process showed uniform compare the quality achieved (extrados, intrados, upper and mechanical properties (tensile using both manufacturing bottom neutral axes). and charpy) and no corrosion processes. The program failures (HIC and FPBT). covered seamless pipe in X60 The different thermomechanical and X65 steel grades with processes that each portion Conclusions a dimensional range from of the pipe undergoes lead The off-line full Q&T method 168.3 (6-5/8”) to 508 mm to different expected final produces more homogenous (20”) OD and 8 (0.315”) to 30 properties in terms of yield bend properties, which can lead mm (1.180”) WT. The most strength, charpy, hardness and to better performance. important parameters of the corrosion resistance. HIB were explored (bending Based on the analysis, Tenaris temperature, strain rate, Even when the process encourages customers to chemical composition, on-line parameters are properly consider the reasons why quenching and stress relieving controlled, the transition the off-line full Q&T is conditions). zones undergo different the preferred process for thermomechanical deformation demanding applications, such Special interrupted hot tensile than the bend body, and as high steel grades, heavy tests on mother pipes were failures are often located in wall thicknesses, low design also performed to characterize these areas. temperatures and sour service. the hot deformability ARGENTINA KOREA César Remacha Leandro Ramos cremacha@tenaris.com lramos@tenaris.com (54) 11 4018 3212 tel (82) 2798 3385 tel (54) 11 4018 1256 fax (82) 2798 3392 fax BOLIVIA MEXICO Richard Mariaca Pedro Franco rmariaca@tenaris.com pfranco@tenaris.com (591) 3312 0603 tel (52) 229 89 1616 tel (591) 3312 0602 fax (52) 229 89 1115 fax BRAZIL NIGERIA Nicolau Bernardo Sergio Ferreira nbernardo@tenaris.com sferreira@tenaris.com (55) 12 3644 9110 tel (234) 8489 6775 tel (55) 12 3644 9027 fax (234) 8461 1859 fax CANADA NORWAY Doug Ripley Arnt Oxaas dripley@tenaris.com aoxaas@tenaris.com (1) 403 767 0204 tel (47) 51 44 3440 tel (1) 403 767 0299 fax (47) 51 44 3441 fax CASPIAN SEA PERU Jacques Attie Patricio Wehncke jattie@tenaris.com pwehncke@tenaris.com 7 32 9242 7053 tel (51) 1 445 8877 tel 7 32 9242 7054 fax (51) 1 242 4719 fax CHINA ROMANIA Liu Jinghua Philix Manuel Pavesi jliu@tenaris.com mpavesi@dalmine.it (86) 10 8459 7821 tel (39) 0 35 560 4209 tel (86) 10 6437 6746 fax (39) 0 35 561 048 fax COLOMBIA RUSSIA Marcelo González Pondal Olga Volkova mgonzalezpondal@tenaris.com ovolkova@tenaris.com (571) 321 1010 tel (7) 495 937 7713 tel (571) 321 1103 fax (7) 495 937 7713 fax ECUADOR SINGAPORE Francisco Torraco Seow Why Lee ftorraco@tenaris.com swlee@tenaris.com (593) 2298 6240 tel (65) 6395 9032 tel (593) 2298 6250 fax (65) 6222 4090 fax EGYPT UAE Hesham Reda Jorge Barroso hreda@tenaris.com jbarroso@tenaris.com (20) 2 528 3701 tel (971) 4 272 5394 tel (20) 2 528 3704 fax (971) 4 272 5392 fax FRANCE UK Velio Sibilla Patrick Szantyr vsibillanarvaez@tenaris.com pszantyr@tenaris.com (33 1) 4757 1212 tel (44) 20 7291 0202 tel (33 1) 4757 1081 fax (44) 20 7291 0201 fax ITALY USA Manuel Pavesi Luiz Oliveira mpavesi@dalmine.it loliveira@tenaris.com (39) 035 560 4209 tel (713) 767 4415 tel (39) 035 561 048 fax (281) 582 5644 fax JAPAN VENEZUELA Onishi Susumu César González sonishi@nkktubes.co.jp cgonzalez@tenaris.com (81) 44 328 3440 tel (58) 212 918 3152 tel (81) 44 328 3458 fax (58) 212 600 3937 fax