Development of Strip Flatness and Crown Control Model for Hot Strip Mills

The strip flatness and crown control model is the foundation of automatic strip shape control. Considering the metal transverse flows and the inter stand second deformation, the trip flatness and crown control model has been developed, which can be applied to CVC mills and PC mills as well as normal four-high mills. The strip flatness and crown control model has high precision, and has been successfully applied to the automatic strip shape control system reconstruction of Tangshan Ganglu 1 250 mm hot strip plant.

Research on confirmation of basic technological parameters of tension levellers based on neural network and genetic algorithm

Confirmation of basic technological parameters of tension levellers is the most important factor of leveling strip. Up to now, most factories have used experts’ experience to decide these parameters, without any established rule to follow. For better quality of strip, a valid method is needed to decide technological parameters precisely and reasonably. In this paper, a method is used based on neural network and genetic algorithm. Neural network has a good ability to extract rules from work process of tension levellers. Then using neural network, which has learned from a lot of working samples, to be the evaluation of fitness, genetic algorithm could easily find the best or better technological parameters. At the end of this paper, examinations are given to show the effect of this method.

Redistribution of Impurity and Visible Foreign Matter in Cotton during Carding

Impurity redistribution during cotton carding was investigated. The content and size of impurity in card sliver,takerin droppings,flat strips,and cylinder screen droppings (including droppings under cylinder screen and cylinder-doffer triangle section)at four taker-in speeds were tested by using USTER AFIS. Results show that both total impurities and visible foreign matter (VFM)weights are increased. Impurities in cotton lap are carded and redistributed in card sliver, taker-in droppings, flat strips and cylinder screen droppings. Impurity percentage in taker-in droppings are the highest,followed by that in card sliver,that in flat strips and that in cylinder screen droppings. Cylinder screen has better dust-removing efficiency than flats. The average sizes of impurities in card sliver and cylinder screen droppings are decreased,whereas those of flat strips are increased and those of taker-in droppings is almost the same,in comparison with cotton lap. The impurity contents of card sliver,taker-in droppings,flat strips and cylinder screen droppings have tendencies to decrease with the increase of taker-in speed.

Development of Mathematical Model for Control Wear in Backup Roll for Hot Strip Mill

The precision of strip flatness depends on several factors; wear of rolls is one of the main variables that have influence on the surface quality of the strip. The wear of the roils represents a complex friction condition, sometimes the wear in the backup roll is not analyzed because the strip is not in contact with the backup roll; however, after several campaigns of rolling, the wear in the backup roll becomes dangerous because the pressure distribution is not uniform. Investigation of mechanism of the surface deterioration of the backup roll for the hot strip rolling is very important for the development of the automatic strip shape control system used in hot strip mills. A mathematical model is developed considering the Hertzian pressure distribution between two cylinders with parallel axes. It is used in real time for calculating the wear in the backup roll and in this manner take deci- sions for preventing finished product reworking or damage of equipments, which result in accidents caused by excessive wear in the backup rolls.

Influence of Residual Stress on Shape of Heavy-gauge,High-strength Steel Caused by Cooling Process after Hot Rolling

The cooling process following hot rolling has a significant effect on the shape quality of a hot-rolled strip.The temperature and stress fields in the cooling process for a 14 mm thick strip with yield strength of 500 MPa grade were analyzed by the finite element method and actual test data,and the relationship between residual stress and shape defects was described.Subsequently,the small-crown rolling process and the coil slow cooling process were investigated.The results indicate that these processes improved the shape quality of the final product significantly.