The choice of annealing and normalizing
Normalizing is to heat the steel pipe (such as seamless pipe and welded steel tube) to 30~50 degrees above Ac3 or Accm, and cool it at a cooling rate slightly higher than annealing after heat preservation. Annealing is to heat the steel pipe to a temperature of Ac3+30~50 degrees or Ac1+30~50 degrees or below Ac1, and generally cool slowly with the furnace temperature. The purpose of normalizing and annealing: 1. Reduce hardness, increase plasticity, improve cutting and pressure processing performance; 2. Refine grains, improve mechanical properties, and prepare for the next process; 3. Eliminate internal stress caused by cold and hot processing. Annealing and normalizing belong to the same type of heat treatment. In actual production, the selection of annealing and normalizing is mainly considered from the following three aspects. 1. Considering machinability The cutting performance of steel pipes, including hardness, chip brittleness, surface roughness and wear on tools, etc. Generall...