Taper Roll Contour Design for Edge Drop Control of Non-oriented Electrical Steel on Tandem Cold Rolling Mill

The taper work roll of the 1700 mm tandem cold rolling mills had some problems in the course of using, and the taper roll contour was ground difficultly and the difference between the designed contour and grinding contour was very big, and the work roll and backup roll had very serious and non-uniform roll wearing and even often had roll spalling, and above those problems affected the stability of rolling process seriously. After analyzing the structure and contour of the taper work roll, it was found that the work roll contour was designed unreasonably and the straight line part and the edge drop control part of roll contours were not connected smoothly, and so it lead to the local stress concentration easily in the transition region and a bigger contacting pressure peak between work roll and backup roll appeared. On basis of decreasing the contacting pressure peak and taking the width of rolled strip and the grinding contour length change into consideration, the design method of the edge control contour part of the taper roll was put forward. The finite element model was built with the software ANASYS9.0 to analyze the mill shape adjusting characteristics, and the simulation result showed that the newly-designed taper roll contour could improve the mill shape adjusting ability. It was shown in the rolling trial that the strip edge drop average was decreased from 14.9 mu m to 7.5 mu m and the edge drop fluctuation of strip was restrained to some extent and controlled within +/- 3 mu m.