• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.271-277
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• 2013

Skin pass rolling is a very important process for applying a certain elongation to a strip in the cold rolling and annealing processes, which play an important role in preventing the stretching of the yield point when the material is processed. The exact prediction of the rolling force is essential for obtaining a given elongation with the steel grade and strip size. Unlike hot rolling and cold rolling, skin pass rolling is used to apply an elongation of within 2% to the strip. Under a small reduction, it is difficult to predict the rolling force because the elastic deformation behavior of the rolls is complicated and a model for predicting the rolling force has not yet been established. Nevertheless, the exact prediction of the rolling force in skin pass rolling has gained increasing importance in recent times with the rapid development of high-strength steels for use in automobiles. In this study, the possibility of predicting the rolling force in skin pass rolling for producing various steel grades was examined using foil rolling theory, which is known to have similar elastic deformation behavior of rolls in the roll bite. It was found that a noncircular arc model is more accurate than a circular model in predicting the roll force of high-strength steel below TS 980 MPa in skin pass rolling.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1-5
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• 1996

열간윤활압연은 판재의 소성압연가공시 롤바이트에 윤활을 행함으로써 롤과 판재사이의 과도한 마찰을 감소시키는 등을 목적으로 한다. 실제로 강판의 열간윤활압연은 냉간압연과 알루미늄의 열간윤활압연에 비해 적용히 상당히 늦었다. 이 이유로서 강판의 열간 윤활압연 기술은 냉간압연에서와는 달리 롤냉각기술의 진보 혹은 내구성롤의 개발로 열간압연윤활제를 사용하지 않고 냉각수반으로 압연을 행한다 하더라도 비교적 충분한 조업성적을 얻을 수 있었던 것도 열간윤활압연의 기본적 연구의 필요성을 감소시켰다 할 수 있다. 그 후 압연동력 및 마모의 절감을 목적으로 시작된 열간윤활압연기술은 현재 전 세계적으로 거의 모든 선진 제철소에 적용되고 있으며, 초기에 FM(Finishing Mill) 스탠드에만 주로 적용되던 열간윤활압연은 상위공정인 RM(Roughing Mill)스탠드에까지 확대 적용되고 있다. 최근 HSS롤의 본격사용 등으로 인해 열간압연의 트라이볼로지 상황은 크게 변화하고 있으며, 이와 함께 신연속열간 압연기술(연연속 압연), 고윤활압연기술 등에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 여기에 강판의 열간윤활압연에 대한 제문제를 정리 하고 향후 개발과제를 전망해 본다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1619-1625
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• 2012

An electrical steel strip is commonly used as a core material in all types of electric transformers and motors. It is produced by a cold rolling process. In this paper, a damage-mechanics-based approach that predicts the edge fracture of an electrical steel strip during cold rolling is presented. We adopted the normal tensile stress criterion and the fracture energy method as a damage initiation criterion and a damage evolution scheme, respectively. We employed finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate crack initiation and propagation at the initial notch located at the edges of the strip. The material constants required in FEA were experimentally obtained by tensile tests using a standard and a notched sheet-type specimen. The results reveal that the edge crack was initiated at the entrance of the roll bite and that it rapidly evolved at the exit. The evolution length of the edge crack increased as the length of the initial notch as well as the front tension reel force of the strip increased.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.284-290
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• 2011

The front end bending(FEB) behavior of material that usually occurs in plate rolling is investigated. In this paper, a rollbite profile map approach that systematically predicts the FEB slope is presented. It is based on the concurrent use of shape factors and reduction ratios to ensure an accurate value of the FEB and its slope. In order to obtain the unit roll-bite profile map, the FEB slope model was decomposed into a temperature deviation component and a roll-velocity deviation component. By mapping the results of a series of finite element analyses to the unit functions of the roll-bite profile map, it was possible to obtain a realistic prediction of the FEB slope applicable to an actual plate rolling process. Thereby, the usefulness of the present approach is clearly demonstrated.