Cold roll bonding of multi-layered bi-metal laminate composites

Multi-layered laminate composites of dissimilar metals have assumed importance industrially. Cold roll bonding can produce multi-layered sheet composites. Study of the effect of rolling and material variables on the bonding characteristics needs to be studied in order to predict the optimum bonding conditions and the final composition of the laminate sheets. In this work, cold roll bonding of multi-layered bimetals has been modeled using the slab method. The effect of anisotropy has been included. Effects of different process and material variables are analyzed. Novel experiments were performed on multilayered Ti-Al system and the numerical results from the model were compared with the experimental results. A good agreement was observed between the model and experimental results. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.