A systematic study is conducted on a 17% Cr dual stabilized ferritic stainless steel (FSS) to the evolution of texture during hot rolling and its effect ridging resistance after cold annealing. Hot 4-high laboratory mill with finishing temperatures in range 1000–810 °C cover microtexture under both conventional conditions when using low temperatures. Subsequently, hot-rolled coils are rolled an...

The paper presents a valid model and a solution method named population-based extremal optimization algorithm (PEOA) to solve the hot rolling scheduling problem (HRSP). Firstly, the problem is formulated as a prize-collecting vehicle problem (PCVRP), which considers two major requirements: (a) selecting a subset of slabs from manufacturing slabs to be processed; (b) determining the optimal prod...