Ironmaking & Steelmaking Vol. 51, No. 6, out now

Hot metal pretreatment, crushing mechanism analysis and iron sintering are among the topics discussed.

This issue contains the following articles, which are available to members via My IOM3.

Contemporaneous causality among price indices of ten major steel products
Bingzi Jin, Xiaojie Xu
pp. 515–526
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241249361

Crushing mechanism analysis of sintered ore and study of particle size distribution pattern after crushing
Peng Tang, Bo Dai, Zhiwei Zhou, Wenbo Ma
pp. 527–545
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241248987

Effect of boron on microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-killed high-strength low-alloy steel
Fei Huang, Jing Li, Ruoyu Zang
pp. 546–555
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241248247

Application of the Fuller–Thompson equation in sinter blend design to increase sinter productivity
Alex Purnell, Devin Sapsford, Sam L. Evans, Chris Kooij, Phillippe Wauters
pp. 556–570
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241248255

Phase transformation and microstructural evolution of coating layer of Al–Si coated 22MnB5 steel during thermal diffusion
Bin Chen, Yiqiang Hao, Xia Chen, Xian Li, Zhuo Deng
pp. 571–578
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241247941

A novel soft sensing modelling approach for sulphur content estimation in hot metal pretreatment process
Zhifang Shi, Wu Lv, Guohui Mei
pp. 579–596
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241247383

Precipitate behaviour of large-sized Nb(C, N) in micro-alloyed steel
Yutang Li, Nianfu Liu, Lu Zhang, Zifei Wang, Bin Liu, Jianxun Fu
pp. 597–608
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241247385

Partial differential equation modelling of the solid–liquid phase process in iron sintering and interface control with backstepping method
Jinchao Chen, Yushan Jiang, Zengxin Kang, Zhaoxia Wu
pp. 609–621
DOI: 10.1177/03019233241247392