Study on strip buckling in continuous annealing lines/hot galvanizing

In continuous annealing lines/hot galvanizing,strips are guided by upper and lower rolls in an alternate up and down vertical motion.This kind of process consisting of heating,soaking,and cooling furnaces(or zones) has several advantages in terms of productivity and product quality.Main problems encountered in continuous annealing lines are misguiding and formation of buckling.The strip buckling causes the strip to be rejected and,in the worst case,the strip breaks and the continuous annealing lines are compelled to stop.In this paper the elastic-plastic model of the strip traveling and the corresponding boundary condition were constructed dependant on the theory of mechanic.Simulations are performed in two steps.First,a homogeneous longitudinal tensile stress is applied at one end of the strip,the other end of the strip and the roll are restricted.In the second step,the applied tension remains constant.A uniform displacement is applied to the other end of the strip and a rotation to the roll. The transverse compressive stress,the buckling formation during strip traveling process,the location for the buckling taking place and the buckling criterion were investigated systematically.The result shows that the transverse compressive stress increases with the increase of the tensile stress and the crown of the tapered roll. Because the contact area between the tapered roll and the strip increase with the decrease of the crown,the tensile stress distribution is more homogeneous in the transverse direction of the strip.An additional transverse compressive stress is created and a buckling is also observed due to the friction during the strip motion in the second step.Once the buckling is appearance,it is very hard to be removed only through decreasing the applied longitudinal tension,because the strip wrinkle still keeps high level due to the effect of the buckled strip,the wrinkle would evolve into buckling eventually.The buckling formation process predicted by the finite element model is very similar to those observed in industrial processing lines.It takes place on the cylindrical part of the tapped roll and the buckling is moving to the middle part of the tapped roll with the increase of the crown,its width is about 2-4 mm.The criterion for the buckle occurrence is also discussed,in the prescribed situation,the transverse shell curvature increases with the strip displacement,if the transverse shell curvature reaches 0.1 mm^(-1), the buckling would take place.

Driving control technology for a continuous annealing line

This paper introduces AC variable-speed driving control technology application in the continuous annealing line,including the drive system configuration,the driving control characteristics of CAL and the main control functions of the drive system.Firstly introduces the main process of the continuous annealing line,the features of the 6SE70 series common DC bus drive system and the G150 series drive system. Secondly,for the continuous annealing line,there are more strict requirements for the continuity of production and more special requirements for the drive control characteristics.We do a lot of improvement and standardization for the driving control functions and the interfaces of the line automation control system. This paper discusses the communication interface specifications and the dimension transformation methods between the drive and the basic automation system.The detail dimension transformation methods and calculation method about the line speed setting and the actual roller dimension setting are given,and detail description for the calculation method of the reference speed in the drive.Article also emphasized illustrates realizing and testing methods of inertia compensation of equipment in the drives,and standardize the value of line accelerate and decelerate rate,and the inertia test method and inertia compensation coefficient calculation method is introduced in this paper.For the bridge rollers and furnace help rollers load balance control,this paper presents two different load balance control strategies,the load balance control principle for bridge rollers which data communicates from main station to slave stations by Simolink,and the load balance control principle for furnace help rollers which use droop control.The different characteristics of those two methods are stated in detail.

A PRODUCTION-INVENTORY SYSTEM WITH AN UNRELIABLE CONTINUOUS TRANSFER LINE

This paper extends a production-inventory model with one unreliable machine to one that hasn machines in series, separated by finite buffers. It is shown how customer service levels and otherperformance measures can be calculated as a function of the availabilities of the machines and thesizes of the intermediate buffers.

Property Prediction Using Hierarchical Regression Model Based on Calibration

Redundant information and inaccurate model will greatly affect the precision of quality prediction.A multiphase orthogonal signal correction modeling and hierarchical statistical analysis strategy are developed for the improvement of process understanding and quality prediction.Bidirectional orthogonal signal correction is used to remove the structured noise in both X and Y,which does not contribute to prediction model.The corresponding loading vectors provide good interpretation of the covariant part in X and Y.According to background,hierarchical PLS（Hi-PLS）is used to build regression model of process variables and property variables.This blocking leads to two model levels：the lower level shows the relationship of variables in each annealing furnace using hierarchical PLS based on bidirectional orthogonal signal correction,and the upper level reflects the relationship of annealing furnaces.With analysis of continuous annealing line data,the production precisions of hardness and elongation are improved by comparison of previous method.Result demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed algorithm for better process understanding X and property interpretation Y.