2021 Volume 62 Issue 8 Pages 1168-1176
The temper rolling process of hot-rolled strips is the final rolling step to improve the flatness of the strips and shape slippage of the coiled strips. Poor flatness of a hot-rolled strip causes lateral movement of the strip during the temper rolling process. Manual leveling operations to control this movement result in a much lower line speed and productivity. Moreover, the quality of manual leveling is not consistent, as it depends on the operator’s experience. Lack of understanding of the lateral movement phenomenon has sustained manual operation and discouraged the development of an automatic control system. To solve this problem, the authors propose both a new lateral movement model and a theoretical method. A lateral movement model for temper rolling and a large-deflection strip model are important components in the new model. In the method, lateral movement stability is equivalent to an eigenvalue problem with lateral movement static equations. Their usefulness is confirmed by comparing the results of experimental rolling in the laboratory with those of numerical calculations. The simulation results obtained using the proposed models confirm that actual problems can be solved more exactly than with the conventional linear model. Thus, simulation using the proposed models can support the investigation of lateral movement problems and the development of an automatic control system.
This Paper was Originally Published in Japanese in J. Jpn. Soc. Technol. Plast. 61 (2020) 107–114. The captions of figures were slightly modified.
