Abstract: A process for granulating slag melts, glass melts, ceramic melts, metal melts and melts of metal alloys, particularly blast furnace slag melts, the melt being shaped into at least one thin, liquid melt stream moving freely in a predetermined direction and which, by meeting at a predetermined incidence angle with a stream of fine-grained, solid particles and/or gas, particularly inert gas, flowing substantially freely in a substantially uniform direction at a high rate of flow in relation to the melt stream or melt streams, being converted at least partly into a substantially fine-grained granulate having a fan-shaped distribution over at least part of the opposite angle to the incidence angle.

Abstract: A steel strip displaying high strength and formability properties is fabricated by coiling a steel strip which has been previously processed through a hot-strip mill from an initial steel having a very low amount of alloying compounds and having a temperature of between 750.degree. and 900.degree. C., the coiled steel strip being maintained at a temperature of between 800.degree. and 650.degree. C. for a period of at least one minute, and thereafter cooled to a temperature of below 450.degree. C., the cooling being accomplished at a rate exceeding 10.degree. C./second.

Abstract: A method and arrangement for testing the serviceability and for setting and calibrating a test apparatus for the non-destructive electrical and/or magnetic testing of metallic blanks, particularly steel slabs, for defects, such as surface or below-surface cracks, laps, shrinkholes, blowholes or the like, comprising inspecting means capable of detecting defects such as these and mounted for displacement relative to the surface of the blank to be tested, test plate simulating a defective metallic blank being brought up to the test apparatus in a position in which they are in substantial alignment with the surface of the blank to be tested, the inspecting means of the test apparatus being tested by the test plates for working order and calibrated.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing metal blanks, in particular steel slabs, which at least in a predetermined surface area have substantially no defects such as cracks, seams, bubbles, scabs, or the like, at least the surface portion to be made free of defects being systematically and substantially completely scanned by means of at least one inspecting device which detects such defects at and closely beneath the surface as regards location and depth and a working means being controlled by means of the recorded defects, which by scarfing, grinding, milling, planning and/or another cutting machine and/or local material melt deposition and/or material replacement or the like removes the defects detected, the defects being recorded with their depth for surface sub-areas whose width transversely of the working means is substantially equal or less than the smallest working width of the working means and the working depth of the working means being controlled in accordance with the maximum defect depth recorded for

Abstract: A process for refining iron melts by blowing oxygen onto the surface of the iron melt, the quantity or concentration of the stream of oxygen being kept constant for most of the blowing time and being reduced in one or more stages towards the end of the blowing time without any significant increase in the total blowing time.