Extensive application of TMCP steel plates to ship hulls: 40 kgf/mm2 class high yield stress steel

Tensile behavior of high performance structural steel T-stub joints

“…The concept of TMCP combines controlled hot rolling with accelerated cooling to control the microstructure of the materials [15]. The microstructure provides the 'fingerprints' of a steel product that determines its properties.…”

Effects of Welding on the Tensile Performance of High Strength Steel T-stub Joints

“…This NSS is a type of advanced low alloy structural steel plate product manufactured by the Thermal-Mechanical Controlled Process (TMCP). The concept of TMCP combines controlled hot rolling with accelerated cooling to control the microstructure [16]. The goal of TMCP is to produce cost-efficient steel strips and plates with properties required for a specific application.…”

Impact of welding on the strength of high performance steel T-stub joints

“…In the first phase, 16mm thick TMCP-S385 and RQT-S690 steel plates with minimum yield strengths of 385MPa and 690MPa respectively are examined. TMCP is an advanced thermo-mechanical process to produce low carbon plate steels "microalloyed" with Ti, Nb and V. The production concept of TMCP is to combine controlled hot rolling with accelerated cooling to generate a bainite and ferrite dominating microstructure [16]. By using the merits of grain refinement, precipitation hardening and low amount of transformation hardening, the TMCP enables the production of as-rolled steels (i.e.…”