Papers by Keyword: Roll Wear

Abstract: The purpose of this work is to evaluate the performance of several wear models, either with different mathematical formulation or different definition of the unknown wear coefficients, on the prediction of the work-roll wear amplitude in Hot Strip Mills (HSM). To achieve this goal, a classical model calibration approach based on inverse optimization has been developed to calibrate these several wear models. A large industrial hot rolling database composed by roll wear amplitude measurements for both later finishing mill stands (F6 and F7) from ArcelorMittal Dofasco HSM was considered and a least-square cost function was applied to minimize the differences between both numerical and experimental results during the optimization process. The averaged roll wear gap between measurements and optimized numerical predictions was then used as a quantitative indicator to compare the performance between the wear models and identify the most suitable one for roll wear prediction. In addition, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach was developed based on the most suitable wear model. Thus, roll wear predictions obtained using the ANN were compared with the ones obtained using Classical calibration to evaluate the performance of both approaches.

Abstract: . For UCM cold rolling mill, the intermediate roll shifting can enhance the ability of mill for better flatness control, but it will increase the non-uniform distribution of pressure between rolls, as result of a reduced roll life. In order to improve the contact state among rolls in rolling processes and to slow down the roll wear, the distribution of pressure between rolls under different forms of roll bending control has been calculated and analyzed by the influence function method in this paper. For the purpose of obtaining comprehensive information, not only the distributions of pressure between rolls with traditional work roll symmetrical bending and intermediate roll symmetrical bending have been analyzed, but also the distributions of pressure between rolls with non-symmetrical roll bending have been analyzed. All the analyses show that the work roll non-symmetrical bending as well as the intermediate roll non-symmetrical bending can play an important role in the slowing down of roll wear.