The aim of the paper was to improve the economy of rolling mill production and to extend the control range of cooling capacity of the accelerated cooling unit by choosing the optimal dimensions of the cooling chamber. The object of research was the interstand cooling unite for accelerated cooling of the hot-rolled products of round section in the line of continuous rolling mill in order to reduce the machine time rolling or even eliminate completely the requirement for heat treatment of the hot-rolled products in heat-treatment furnaces. The influence of the design parameters of the cooling chamber on the expanding the control range, retaining a high cooling capacity of the chamber, was investigated by the numerical model based on the finite difference method. The diagrams presented in the paper allow determining the diameters of the cooling chamber, which provide a wide control range of the chamber cooling capacity and minimization of energy consumption of the electric water pump.
The aim of the work is to develop a model of the deformation-stressed state of a continuous-cast billet, taking into account its behavior in the continuous casting machine line. A new physical model of the ingot crust bending process in the inter-roller gap has been proposed. The model is based on the regularities of the change in the deformed state of the surface of the crust under the action of ferrostatic pressure. It is established that the crust undergoes a cyclic alternating deformation in the process of moving it across the inter-roller gap. It is shown that the surface of the crust comes into contact with the surface of the roller before approaching the inter-roller gap. This causes the appearance of an anomalous area with a constant curvature of the crust at the final stage of its buckling. The second anomalous deformation zone of the ingot crust is the junction zone of the previous crust and the subsequent inter-roller gap, where the crust instantly changes its curvature. In combination with the flat scheme of the stress-strain state, a physical model is presented, which makes it possible to identify in each of the inter-roller gaps the zone of maximum values of the tensile strain rate. Identifying the zone of maximum values of the tensile strain indicator and comparing it with the maximum allowable one allows determining and correcting the length of the inter-roller gaps of the continuous casting machine.
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