METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEAMLESS TUBE FORMED OF TITANIUM MATERIAL

摘要

A method of manufacturing a seamless tube formed of a titanium material, such as pure titanium or titanium alloys, by the use of the Mannesmann's method. At first, an ingot formed of the titanium material is processed under the conditions that a heating temperature is 850 to 1,250 .degree.C, the final temperature being 600 to 1,100 .degree.C, and a working degree being 50 % or more to be turned into a solid billet. The resulting solid billet is subjected to a piercing within a temperature range of .beta. transus - 100 to 1,250 .degree.C to be turned into a hollow piece. In this piercing process, inclined rolls of a piercer are descaled. The resulting hollow piece is in case of need regulated a size thereof subjected to an elongating to be turned into a hollow shell. Subsequently, the resulting hollow shell is subjected to a reducing (reducing conditions: temperature at an inlet side of the mill is 600 to 1,100 .degree.C and a reduction of outside diameter is 80 % or more) by means of a reducer mill or to a sizing (sizing conditions: temperature at an inlet side of the mill is 550 to 1,150 .degree.C and a reduction of outside diameter is 3 to 15 %) by means of a sizer mill.