摘要:
The present invention aims at reducing the cropping losses formed during reversible multi pass hot rolling of flat ended bloom into bars by designing the preform end shapes using finite element analysis and a method to provide the designed preform end shapes to the input blooms. A three dimensional simulation of the reversible multi pass hot rolling process with flat ended input bloom predicts the formation of defective end shapes after rolling and reverse material tracking is applied to finite element simulations to obtain desired preform end shapes of the input bloom and similar simulations on the bloom with preformed end shape shows considerable reduction in cropping losses. An open die forging is used to provide the preform end shape to the input blooms obtained by reverse material tracking method and rolling of the said input blooms by ordinary rolling process shows considerable reduction in the formation of cropping loss and exhibits an effective improvement of about 1.02% in the yield of rolling process.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for reducing crop losses during slab and ingot rolling concerns the formation of a slab ingot having a specially configured or shaped butt end and optionally a head end as well. A special shape is formed by machining, forging or preferably by casting. The special shape at the butt end is imparted during casting by a specially shaped bottom block or starter block. The special shape of the bottom block is imparted to the cast ingot butt end. The specially shaped butt end of a slab shaped ingot is generally rectangular in shape and has longitudinally outwardly extending, enlarged portions (24), which slope downwardly toward a depressed central valley region (26). The lateral sides of the enlarged end portions and the depressed valley region carry transversely extending, tapered or curved edges. A similar shape may be imparted to the head end of the ingot at the conclusion of a casting run through the use of a specially shaped hot top mold or by way of machining or forging the cast head end. During subsequent hot rolling in a reversing roughing mill, the specially shaped slab ingot minimizes the formation of overlap and tongue so as to improve material recovery by reducing end crop losses and to increase rolling mill efficiency by increasing metal throughput in the mill.