ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR MECHANICAL DESIGN OF COLD ROLLING CLUSTER MILLS

摘要

The paper investigates the main issues of design and modeling of so-called cluster mills for cold rolling of thin and moderate thin steel products, by means of numerical tools. This preliminary discussion summarizes the relevant aspects experimented on few operating cold rolling mills, started in [1], to select models and architecture suitable to build simple tools, to be used for a preliminary prediction of the dynamic response of the whole plant, in presence of known excitation, or even to simulate condition monitoring operation, to support operators in signal processing of sensors equipping bearings and mill frame.