Grade 254 SMO™ stainless steel is used in the following areas

These are the products that perform well in halide solutions with chloride and bromide ions present. The SMO 254 grade demonstrates the effects of localised corrosion caused by pitting, crevices and stresses. SMO 254 is a low carbon elemental material. Due to the low carbon content there is a reduced chance of carbide precipitation during heat application during welding.

SMO 254 stainless steel is a high quality austenitic stainless steel. It is manufactured with twice the strength of 300 series stainless steel and a combination of impact toughness, resistance to chloride stress corrosion, cracking, pitting and crevice corrosion.

In the construction industry, carbon steel forged fittings are used for structural support and reinforcement.

Reliability - Steel's reliability makes it an excellent material for building homes that are fireproof, hurricane proof, tornado proof and earthquake proof compared to many other materials.

Forged steel fittings are pipe fittings made from carbon steel, where forged steel is an alloy of carbon and iron. Forged steel fittings have excellent resistance to atmospheric conditions and exceptional strength.

Carbon steel is an iron-carbon alloy that has a higher carbon content and a lower melting point than stainless steel. Carbon steel is similar in appearance and properties to stainless steel, but has a higher carbon content.

A. Hot metal pretreatment. To ensure the low-sulfur content of pipeline steel, hot metal pretreatment is required before steelmaking. This is a convenient and economical method to obtain low-sulfur hot metal. Usually, spraying, stirring and other hot metal desulfurization methods are used to spray calcium carbide, magnesium, or lime and other desulfurizing agents into torpedo tanks of molten iron tanks to reduce the sulfur in the molten iron from 300×10 -6 to below 50×10 -6. B. The converter top and bottom composite blowing. In addition to desulfurization, converter smelting also has dephosphorization tasks. Through top-bottom composite blowing, it can not only reduce phosphorus and sulfur, reduce the oxidizing atmosphere, but also reduce splashing and strengthen smelting. C. Refining outside the furnace. Pipeline steel is often refined outside the furnace, such as RH vacuum degassing, LF refining, ladle powder spraying, silicon calcium feeding, and rare earth wire, etc. Especially RH and calcium treatment has become indispensable technological measures for the production of high-grade pipeline steel. The application of vacuum degassing makes it possible to produce pure steel. Also, the accurate control of alloying elements in the vacuum treatment process can control the chemical composition within a narrow range, which can minimize the performance fluctuation of the steel pipe. For X80 and higher strength pipeline steel, performance fluctuation control is a very important issue. Vacuum treatment can reduce the hydrogen content, and the oxygen content of high-strength pipeline steel must be controlled at a lower level than traditional steel grades because high-strength steel is more sensitive to cracks. D. Continuous casting. In the production of pipeline steel continuous casting, how to prevent large-particle inclusion, component segregation, surface, and internal cracks are the main issues to improve the quality of the material. The secondary oxidation of molten steel from the ladle to the tundish and from the tundish to the mold should be prevented, and argon protection is generally used. Besides, when the continuous casting billet is above 1300°C, rapid water spray cooling should be avoided to avoid surface cracks. At the same time, continuous casting adopts electromagnetic stirring, light reduction technology, and preventing the flow of the mother liquor enriched in the liquid cavity, which has a great effect on reducing the segregation of alloy elements. E. Controlled cooling by drawing and rolling. To make full use of the effect of grain refinement and achieve the matching of strength and toughness, most pipeline steel is produced by controlled rolling. It recrystallizes through deformation in the high-temperature austenite zone and the low-temperature austenite un-recrystallized zone. The deformation of (r+a) enriched nuclei, and the deformation of the (r+a) two-phase region to achieve the best refinement effect. Steel microalloying, rolling process, and grain refinement are closely related. It is not enough to use the general post-rolling cooling for pipeline steel above X70. It is necessary to use controlled cooling to adjust the ferrite crystal Grain size, bainite type, and proportion, number of carbonitride precipitates, and particle size distribution.

1) The storage site or warehouse of steel should be in a clean place with unobstructed drainage, far away from factories and mines that produce harmful gases or dust. Weeds and all debris should be removed on the field, and the steel should be kept clean; 2) Do not stack with acid, alkali, salt, cement, and other corrosive materials in the warehouse. Different types of steel should be stacked separately to prevent confusion and contact corrosion; 3) Large section steel, rails, steel plates, large-diameter steel pipes, forgings, etc. can be stacked in the open; 4) Small and medium-sized steel bars, wire rods, steel bars, medium-diameter steel pipes, steel wires, and wire ropes, etc., can be stored in a well-ventilated material shed, but must be topped and bottomed; 5) Some small steels, thin steel plates, steel strips, silicon steel sheets, small-caliber or thin-walled steel pipes, various cold-rolled and cold-drawn steels, and high-priced and easily corrosive metal products can be stored in the warehouse; 6) The warehouse should be selected according to geographical conditions. Generally, an ordinary closed warehouse is used, that is, a warehouse with a roof, a wall, tight doors and windows, and a ventilation device; 7) The warehouse is required to be ventilated on sunny days, shut down to prevent moisture on rainy days, and always maintain a suitable storage environment.

Thick-walled spiral steel pipe is a method of arc welding under the flux layer. It is formed by using the heat generated by the arc burning between the flux and the welding wire under the flux layer, the base metal, and the melted welding wire flux. During use, the principal stress direction of thick-walled spiral steel pipes, that is, the equivalent defect length in the axis direction of the steel pipe, is smaller than that of straight seam pipes; if the pipe length is L, the weld length is L/cos(θ). There has been a long-standing debate between spiral steel pipes and straight seam steel pipes. First, because the defects are parallel to the welds, for spiral steel pipes, the defects in the welds are "oblique defects". Secondly, pipeline steels are all rolled steel plates. , the impact toughness has large anisotropy, the CVN value along the rolling direction can be 3 times higher than the CVN value perpendicular to the rolling direction, the weld seam of spiral steel pipe is longer than that of straight seam pipe, especially compared with UOE steel pipe A more superior problem, with the development of spiral steel pipe manufacturing technology today, we should evaluate and compare comprehensively and correctly, and re-understand the problem of long spiral steel pipe welds. ​ The main stress on thick-walled spiral steel pipes is exactly perpendicular to the direction of the pipe's impact resistance. Spiral seam submerged arc welded steel pipes are formed by bending hot-rolled strip steel in a spiral shape, and the inner and outer seams are welded by automatic submerged arc welding. It is formed into a spiral seam steel pipe, and the spiral steel pipe staggers the direction of the pipe's impact resistance, turning the disadvantage of a long weld seam of the spiral steel pipe into an advantage. It can be widely used in the production of large-diameter steel pipes for the following reasons: 1) Because it is continuously bent and formed, the fixed length of the steel pipe is not limited; 2) As long as the forming angle is changed, steel pipes of various diameters can be produced from strip steel of the same width; 3) Easy to change size, suitable for the production of small batches and multiple varieties of steel pipes; 4) The welds are spirally distributed evenly over the entire circumference of the steel pipe, so the steel pipe has high dimensional accuracy and high strength.

The spiral seam submerged arc welded steel pipe is rotated and drilled and begins to enter the soft formation. Under the action of the three-cone wheel, the drill bit first produces elastic shear deformation of the formation and then is removed under the pressure of the three-cone wheel. In the simulation environment, soft soil is a homogeneous clay, and the formation and cracks in the soil are not considered. Horizontal directional drilling is performed in abrupt formations that are in random dynamic contact with the roller cone bit. Friction occurs when the cone comes into contact with the formation. The impact force causes the spiral seam submerged arc welded steel pipe to vibrate. When the tritone bit moves from soft to hard formations, it will inevitably produce large lateral vibrations and up-and-down vibrations. When the drilling speed is 0.008m/s and the drill bit rotation speed is 2 rad/s, the pseudo strain energy curve during the advancement of the roller cone bit mainly includes viscosity and elasticity. However, since the viscous term usually dominates, most of the energy converted into pseudo-strain energy is irreversible. The deformation energy of spiral seam submerged arc welded steel pipe is the main energy consumed to control hourglass deformation. If the pseudo strain energy is too high, it means that the strain energy controlling the hourglass deformation is too large, and the mesh should be refined or modified. To reduce excessive spurious strain energy. The pseudo strain energy mutation in this model mainly occurs when the drill bit enters the soft soil layer and the roller cone bit passes through the abrupt formation interface. The greater the hardness of the formation, the greater the pseudo strain energy of the drill bit entering the formation. Simulate the drilling process of spiral welded pipe in sudden formation and predict the changes in drill bit drilling trajectory.

Advantage of seamless steel pipe: a. Hot rolling can significantly reduce energy consumption and reduce costs. During hot rolling, the metal has high plasticity and low deformation resistance, which greatly reduces the energy consumption of metal deformation. b. Hot rolling can improve the process

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1. Make the structure and composition of the steel pipe uniform, which is especially important for the raw materials, because the rolling temperature and cooling rate of each section of the hot-rolled wire rod are different, resulting in inconsistent structure. At high temperatures, the atomic

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