API X80 Grade Electric Resistance Welded Pipe （API X80级电阻焊管）.pdf

JFE TECHNICAL REPORT No. 18 (Mar. 2013) API X80  Grade  Electric  Resistance Welded  Pipe  with  Excellent  Low Temperature Toughness† NAKATA Hiroshi*1 KAMI Chikara*2 MATSUO Nobuyuki*3 Abstract: steel plates as the starting material have been developed, This paper introduces nature and characteristics of for example, bainitic steel produced by accelerated cool- the API X80 high frequency electric resistance welded ing technology using low carbon equivalent steel1–4). (HFW) pipe. Thick-walled high strength line pipes are to In developing high toughness line pipe products cov- be increasingly used for high pressure pipeline opera- ering comparatively small-diameter sizes with outer tion to improve the transportation efficiency for natural diameters of 26” (660 mm) and less, JFE Steel con- gas and oil. To improve the material properties of hot ducted a review of the steel composition and study of coil for X80, the effects of microstructure, chemical the hot rolling manufacturing conditions from the view- composition on strength and toughness were investi- point of reducing factors in the microstructure of the gated. Based on this study, JFE Steel has developed low steel coils used as the starting material which deteriorate carbon bainitic ferrite steel with fine precipitates and no toughness, with the aim of applying the high frequency coarse pearlite and martensite by applying