Application of artificial neural networks for predicting the impact of rolling dynamic compaction using dynamic cone penetrometer test results

Rolling dynamic compaction(RDC),which involves the towing of a noncircular module,is now widespread and accepted among many other soil compaction methods.However,to date,there is no accurate method for reliable prediction of the densification of soil and the extent of ground improvement by means of RDC.This study presents the application of artificial neural networks(ANNs) for a priori prediction of the effectiveness of RDC.The models are trained with in situ dynamic cone penetration(DCP) test data obtained from previous civil projects associated with the 4-sided impact roller.The predictions from the ANN models are in good agreement with the measured field data,as indicated by the model correlation coefficient of approximately 0.8.It is concluded that the ANN models developed in this study can be successfully employed to provide more accurate prediction of the performance of the RDC on a range of soil types.

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF A ROLLING HOOP WITH MASS UNBALANCE

The dynamical behavior of a rolling hoop with an unbalanced point mass under the influence of gravity is discussed.The whole process from rolling to hopping of the hoop is analyzed qualitatively.The conditions of slipping,hopping and touching down of the hoop are obtained.It is shown that the hoop cannot maintain a pure rolling before hopping up,and the slippage is unavoid- able.The hoop has neither vertical velocity nor vertical acceleration at the moment when the normal constraint force vanishes.The hopping motion of the hoop can occur only when the derivative of the vertical acceleration with respect to time is positive.It requires that the angular velocity of the hoop should be larger than a critical value,and the mass point should be located in the fourth quadrant of the hoop circle at the moment of hopping.The whole process of the pure rolling,rolling with slipping, hopping and falling motions of the hoop is shown in the phase plane,and the physical explanation of the hopping motion is given.

Numerical simulation of wheel wear evolution for heavy haul railway

The prediction of the wheel wear is a fundamental problem in heavy haul railway. A numerical methodology is introduced to simulate the wheel wear evolution of heavy haul freight car. The methodology includes the spatial coupling dynamics of vehicle and track, the three-dimensional rolling contact analysis of wheel-rail, the Specht's material wear model, and the strategy for reproducing the actual operation conditions of railway. The freight vehicle is treated as a full 3D rigid multi-body model. Every component is built detailedly and various contact interactions between parts are accurately simulated, taking into account the real clearances. The wheel-rail rolling contact calculation is carried out based on Hertz's theory and Kalker's FASTSIM algorithm. The track model is built based on field measurements. The material loss due to wear is evaluated according to the Specht's model in which the wear coefficient varies with the wear intensity. In order to exactly reproduce the actual operating conditions of railway,dynamic simulations are performed separately for all possible track conditions and running velocities in each iterative step.Dimensionless weight coefficients are introduced that determine the ratios of different cases and are obtained through site survey. For the wheel profile updating, an adaptive step strategy based on the wear depth is introduced, which can effectively improve the reliability and stability of numerical calculation. At last, the wear evolution laws are studied by the numerical model for different wheels of heavy haul freight vehicle running in curves. The results show that the wear of the front wheelset is more serious than that of the rear wheelset for one bogie, and the difference is more obvious for the outer wheels. The wear of the outer wheels is severer than that of the inner wheels. The wear of outer wheels mainly distributes near the flange and the root; while the wear of inner wheels mainly distributes around the nominal rolling circle. For the outer wheel of front wheelset of each bogie, the development of wear is gradually concentrated on the flange and the developing speed increases continually with the increase of traveled distance.

Characteristics of unsteady lubrication film in metal-forming process with dynamic roll gap

Based on the theory of unsteady hydrodynamic lubrication and relevant mathematic and physical methods, a basic model was developed to analyze the unsteady lubrication film thickness, pressure stress and friction stress in the work zone in strip rolling. The distribution of pressure stress and friction stress in the work zone was obtained. A numerical simulation was made on a 1850 cold rolling mill. The influence of back tension stress and reduction on the distribution of pressure stress and friction stress between the roll gaps was qualitatively analyzed by numerical simulation. The calculated results indicate that the higher the back tension, the lower the pressure stress and the friction stress in the work zone, and the largest friction stresses are obtained at the inlet and outlet edges. The pressure and friction gradients are rather small at high back tension. The pressure-sensitive lubricant viscosity increases exponentially with the increase of pressure. The unsteady lubrication phenomenon in the roll bite is successfully demonstrated.

Tandem Strip Mill's Multi-parameter Coupling Dynamic Modeling Based on the Thickness Control

The rolling process is determined by the interaction of a number of different movements,during which the relative movement occurs between the vibrating roll system and the rolled piece,and the roll system＇s vibration interacts with the strip＇s deformation and rigid movement.So many parameters being involved leads to a complex mechanism of this coupling effect.Through testing and analyzing the vibration signals of the mill in the rolling process,the rolling mill＇s coupled model is established with comprehensive consideration of the coupling interaction between the mill＇s vertical vibration,its torsional vibration and the working roll＇s horizontal vibration,and vibration characteristics of different forms of rolling mill＇s vibration are analyzed under the coupling effect.With comprehensive attention to the relationship between the roll system,the moving strip and the rolling parameters＇dynamic properties,and also from the strip thickness control point of view,further research is done on the coupling mechanism between the roll system＇s movement and the moving strip＇s characteristics in the rolling process.As a result,the law of inertial coupling and the stiffness coupling effect caused by different forms of the roll system＇s vibration is determined and the existence of nonlinear characteristics caused by the elastic deformation of moving strip is also found.Furthermore,a multi-parameter coupling-dynamic model is established which takes the tandem strip mill as its research object by making a detailed kinematics analysis of the roll system and using the principle of virtual work.The coupling-dynamic model proposes the instruction to describe the roll system＇s movement,and analyzes its dynamic response and working stability,and provides a theoretical basis for the realization of the strip thickness＇dynamic control.

Numerical study on roll dynamics of damaged ship in beam waves and calm water

Computational fluid dynamics is used to study the roll dynamics of a damaged ship in beam waves with various steepnesses and in calm water.The wave-making method,which combines the velocity-inlet boundary and momentum source with the fifth-order Stokes theory,is employed for wave generation.The SST k-ωturbulence model with a modification to the turbulent viscosity in Reynolds stress is adopted to prevent the over-production of turbulence in the numerical wave tank.The lateral drift restrained model with a combined dynamic mesh strategy is utilized to deal with the coupled heave-sway-roll motions of the ship.First,benchmarking tests are performed,including wave generation and roll response of the damaged ship in regular beam waves.Then,the effects of incident wave steepness on the roll response of the damaged ship are analyzed.For different wave steepnesses,the ship roll motion is dominated by the first-order harmonic component.The second-order component increases with the increase of wave steepness.Finally,the roll hydrodynamic coefficients for different parts of the damaged ship are investigated with different rolling parameters.The added moment of inertia for the whole damaged ship is mainly attributed to the external hull composition and changes slightly with the change of roll amplitude and frequency.The added moment of inertia for the compartments could be negative in particular cases.The damping coefficients of the whole damaged ship and external hull increase with the increase of roll amplitude and frequency,while that of the compartments appears complicated with the change of roll amplitude and frequency.

Instability of roll nonlinear system with structural clearance in rolling process

The vibration instability of the nonlinear dynamic system of the rolls considering the structural clearance was theoretically investigated,which is caused by the roll assembly accuracy deviation in the hot rolling process.Firstly,the dynamic rolling force model was established based on the Wekbrod model under the influence of the roll grinding deviation and the stability of the deformation zone.Further,the horizontal and vertical direction coupling dynamic model of the work roll was established considering the structural clearance between the roll and mill frame.Then,the nonlinear dynamic equation was solved by the Runge-Kutta method.The simulation results show that the dynamic system presents the nonlinear vibration characteristics,which shows that the instability of the system is a slowly varying response process with the characteristics of self-excited vibration and forced vibration.Finally,the comparison results show the consistency between the simulation and the test.

The Optimizing Method of Equipment Renewal Opportunity Based on Dynamic Sunk Cost

This article brings forward a new conception of dynamic sunk cost, and then constructs a systematic model that could be used in analyzing equipment renewal opportunity. This model will do much help in solving problems refer to optimizing equipment renewal opportunity in right way.

Vibration characteristics of multi-parametric excitations and multi-frequency external excitations of rolling mill under entry thickness fuctuation of strip

A dynamic rolling force model with multi-parametric excitations and multi-frequency external excitations caused by entry thickness fuctuation of strip was established.Based on the dynamic rolling force,a nonlinear vertical vibration model with multi-parametric excitations and multi-frequency external excitations was established.The method of multiple scales was used to solve the amplitude-frequency characteristic equation of primary resonance of the nonlinear vibration system of a rolling mill.The transition set and the topology structure of systematic global bifurcation were obtained by using the singularity theory.Finally,primary resonance characteristics of the system under entry thickness fuctuation of strip were analyzed by using actual parameters of the rolling mill.The global bifurcation curves with the change of amplitude and frequency of entry thickness fuctuation of strip were obtained by using numerical simulation,and many dynamic behaviors were found such as single-cycle motion,multi-cycle motion and chaotic motion,which can provide a theoretical reference for further restraining the vibration of a rolling mill.

Vertical-horizontal coupling nonlinear vibration characteristics of rolling mill under mixed lubrication

Considering the dynamic influence of the roll vibration on the lubricant film thickness in the rolling deformation area,nonlinear dynamic rolling forces related to film thickness in the vertical and horizontal directions were obtained based on the Karman balance theory.Based on these dynamic rolling forces and the mechanical vibration of the rolling mill,a vertical-horizontal coupling nonlinear vibration dynamic model was established.The amplitude-frequency equation of the main resonance was derived by using the multiple-scale method.At last,the parameters of the 1780 rolling mill were used for numerical simulation,and the time-domain response curves of the system’s vibration displacement and lubricating film thickness under the steady and unsteady conditions were analyzed.The influences of parameters such as interface contact ratio,nonlinear parameters and external disturbances on the primary resonance frequency characteristics were obtained,which provided a theoretical reference for the suppression of rolling mill vibration.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Uncertainty Analysis for Simulations of Roll Motions for a 3D Ship

The roll motions are influenced by significant viscous effects such as the flow separation.The 3D simulations of free decay roll motions for the ship model DTMB 5512 are carried out by Reynold averaged NavierStokes(RANS) method based on the dynamic mesh technique.A new moving mesh technique is adopted and discussed in details for the present simulations.The purpose of the research is to obtain accurate numerical prediction for roll motions with their respective numerical/modeling errors and uncertainties.Errors and uncertainties are estimated by performing the modern verification and validation(V&V) procedures.Simulation results for the free-floating surface combatant are used to calculate the linear,nonlinear damping coefficients and resonant frequencies including a wide range of forward speed.The present work can provide a useful reference to calculate roll damping by computational fluid dynamics(CFD) method and simulate a general ship motions in waves.