Research and application of the angular rolling technology for plate mill

Angular rolling technology can overcome the size limitation of plate mill equipment and product heavy steel plate with large unit weight or improve the production efficiency of small width spreading ratio product.With the DEFORM software,the numerical simulation study of the angular rolling process was carried out,and the relation laws of the width,rolling force and strain of the rolled piece under different angular rolling process conditions were obtained.The simulation results show that with the rotation angle increasing,the width of the rolled piece increases.Comparing with the conventional rolling process,the rolling force changes gradually during the biting and throwing stage of the angular rolling pass.With the rotation angle increasing,both the equivalent strains in the thickness direction and in the width direction gradually increase.According to the pattern and dimension's changing formula in the double-pass angular rolling process,the prediction model of angle,reduction and width spreading is built.The opening value of side guide is set for the rotation angle controlling.For one 5000 mm heavy plate mill,the automation control system was modified,and the angular rolling technology was applied online.The absolute deviation of target width does not exceed±20 mm and the relative deviation does not exceed 1%.The large unit weight plate that cannot be rolled with traditional process,can be produced now,and the annual output increases by 10000 t.

Roll angular rate extraction based on modified spline-kernelled chirplet transform

The roll angular rate is much crucial for the guidance and control of the projectile.Yet the high-speed rotation of the projectile brings severe challenges to the direct measurement of the roll angular rate.Nevertheless,the radial magnetometer signal is modulated by the high-speed rotation,thus the roll angular rate can be achieved by extracting the instantaneous frequency of the radial magnetometer signal.The objective of this study is to find out a precise instantaneous frequency extraction method to obtain an accurate roll angular rate.To reach this goal,a modified spline-kernelled chirplet transform(MSCT)algorithm is proposed in this paper.Due to the nonlinear frequency modulation characteristics of the radial magnetometer signal,the existing time-frequency analysis methods in literature cannot obtain an excellent energy concentration in the time-frequency plane,thereby leading to a terrible instantaneous frequency extraction accuracy.However,the MSCT can overcome the problem of bad energy concentration by replacing the short-time Fourier transform operator with the Chirp Z-transform operator based on the original spline-kernelled chirplet transform.The introduction of Chirp Z-transform can improve the construction accuracy of the transform kernel.Since the construction accuracy of the transform kernel determines the concentration of time-frequency distribution,the MSCT can obtain a more precise instantaneous frequency.The performance of the MSCT was evaluated by a series of numerical simulations,high-speed turntable experiments,and real flight tests.The evaluation results show that the MSCT has an excellent ability to process the nonlinear frequency modulation signal,and can accurately extract the roll angular rate for the high spinning projectiles.

Orientation factor analysis of deformation mechanisms under special processing techniques in AZ31 magnesium alloys

Experiments show that special processing techniques such as asymmetrical rolling （ASR）, equal channel angular pressing （ECAP） and equal channel angular rolling （ECAR） can weaken the basal texture of the magnesium alloys and therefore improve their plasticity. However, the deformation mechanisms related are different. In this paper, we determine the deformation mechanisms activated during ASR, ECAP and ECAR by calculation of orientation factors. Analysis shows that during ASR the shear stress σ13 on the rolling plane of the samples obviously weakens the basal slip and tension twinning that all produce basal texture and improve plasticity due to the promotion of tilt basal texture. During ECAP the shear stress σs on the intersecting plane of two channels promotes tension twinning in the basal oriented grains, whereas under ECAR the shear stress σ13 induced by roller friction on the rolling plane produces the shear stress as on the intersection plane of the two channels that also promotes tension twinning. Although the shear strain is lower in ECAR than in ECAP, the channel clearance in ECAR facilitates tension twinning.

Hot Ductility of Severe Plastic Deformed AA6061 Aluminum Alloy

The hot ductility of 6061 aluminum alloy,which was subjected to two different severe plastic deformations（SPD）,was studied at different temperatures and strain rates.The tensile tests were carried out at the temperature range of 300-500 ℃ and at the strain rates of 0.0005-0.01 s^（-1）.The microstructure evolution was characterized using optical microscopy,transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction technique.The influences of the microstructure after SPD,thermomechanical parameters（temperature and strain rate） and specimen size on the hot formability of this alloy were then analyzed.The results show that a decrease in grains/subgrains exhibited significant effect on the hot ductility of SPDed samples.The constitutive equations were then developed to model the hot formability of the studied alloy.The developed model can be represented by Zener-Hollomon parameter in a hyperbolic sinusoidal equation form.Both the changes of elongation to failure and Zener-Hollomon parameter indicate that the hot ductility of the alloy is more sensitive to the temperature rather than to the strain rate.The uniform elongation is independent of the specimen size,but the postnecking elongation increases dramatically as the ratio of l/A^（1/2） decreases.