Hot rolling of steel / William L. Roberts.

History of hot rolling - Types of hot-rolled products - Casting practices - The reheating of ingots - Conditioning semi-finished products - The basic principles of rolling and pass design - Blooming, slabbing and billet mills - Reheat furnaces - Bar and rod mills - Structural mills - The rolling of rails, wheels and rings - Tube mills - Plate mills - Hot-strip mills - Mill drives - Mill rolls and bearings - The cooling of mill rolls - The cooling and descling of workpieces - Mathematical models of hot, flat rolling - The behavior of steels during deformation at elevated temperatures - Controlled rolling or the thermomechanical treatment of steel - Frictional effects in hot rolling - Nonuniform deformation in hot rolling - Heat treatments for hot-rolled products - The instrumentation and computer control of hot mills - The further processing of hot-rolled products.