Jfe Steel Corporation

Rinya Kojo

Hideki Takahashi

Yoshikazu Yoshida

Yuzuru Kataoka

Ryo Matsuoka

Tomoo Horita

Tatsumi Kimura

Makoto Nakaseko

Mineyasu Takemasa

Atsushi Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Yuta Tamura

Hiromasa Hayashi

Satoshi Oro

Yohei Takanaga

Adhesive matter remaining at the end of a cuboid metal material is reliably removed in a relatively short time while suppressing the decrease in yield rate of the metal material. Distances of the upper surface and the lower surface of a cuboid metal material from a reference position are measured using a distance measurement device in the longitudinal direction of the slab including the longitudinal end of the slab. On the basis of the measurement results, the state of remaining of adhesive matter remaining on the upper and lower surfaces of the longitudinal end of the slab is comprehended. On the basis of the state of remaining of adhesive matter, the amount and position of cutting by a cutting tool is determined. Corner removing cutting is performed on the upper and lower surfaces of the longitudinal end of the slab using the cutting tool in accordance with the determined amount and position of cutting.

Method of cutting and removing adhesive matter at end of cuboid metal material and removal apparatus

A rail cooling device configured to forcibly cool a rail by jetting a coolant includes a porous plate nozzle including a plurality of nozzle holes configured to jet the coolant to an underside of the base of the rail to cool the underside of the base of the rail. Ends in a width direction of the porous plate nozzle correspond to ends of the underside of the base of the rail. Nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at the ends of the width direction are smaller than nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at a central part in the width direction, and a maximum value of a distance between centers of the nozzle holes at both ends in the width direction is 30% or more of a width of the underside of the base.

Rail cooling device

A rail cooling method for forcibly cooling a rail by jetting a coolant includes jetting the coolant to a foot back part of the rail from a porous plate nozzle in which a nozzle hole at an end in a width direction is smaller than a nozzle hole at a central part in the width direction and causes a cooling capacity for the end in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail to be lower than a cooling capacity for the central part in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail.

Rail cooling method and rail cooling device

A rail heat treatment device includes a cooling header, an oscillation mechanism, and a control system including: a storage unit that stores therein at least information required for a oscillation control; and a control unit that obtains a permissible range of required cooling time for a rail that satisfies a permissible range of hardness of the rail based on a correlation expression representing a correlation between the cooling time for the rail with the cooling header and the hardness of the rail after cooling, controls a stroke and a speed of relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header based on the permissible range of the required cooling time, and causes the oscillation mechanism to perform the relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header by the stroke and at the speed.

Rail heat treatment device and rail heat treatment method

A rail cooling method includes: calculating, based on a relation between temperatures and an amount of warp of the rail cooled to ambient temperature after the forced cooling, the temperatures including a cooling start temperature of the head, a cooling end temperature of the head, a cooling start temperature of the foot and a cooling end temperature of the foot, a target value or a target value range for each of the temperatures so that the amount of warp of the rail at ambient temperature falls within a permissive range; and setting a cooling condition in accordance with the target value or the target value range to perform the forced cooling on the head and the foot.

Rail cooling method

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Rinya Kojo