Cold Roll Cladding of Carbon Steels

Cladding of steel is mainly carried out by hot rolling. This process is very labor-intensive and, therefore, expensive. Cold plating has been used successfully to produce bimetals and could also be an alternative manufacturing process for cladded carbon steel composites. So far, however, only thin narrow IF-steels sheets were successfully cold plated. Different pretreatments and process windows have been used to successfully produce a cold roll-cladded composite of various steel grades on a cold rolling test facility. While joining two similar steels was relatively easy, the combination of different steel alloy compositions was more difficult. Higher necessary forces and edge cracks complicated the experiments. A slight warming of the sheets before joining had a positive effect on the production of the composite. From today's perspective, the required high rolling forces do not allow scaling up to large-scale production.