Experimental investigation on thermal wear of high speed steel rolls in hot strip rolling

The thermal wear ratio of a high speed steel roll was investigated experimentally in hot strip rolling with a DTW-166 thermal wear testing machine developed by the authors. It is clear that the wear ratio increased with number of cycles. Some of the increase in wear was because of the black oxide layer generated on the roll surface at the beginning. The wear ratio also increased as. slippage ratio and loads increased. Loads played a more important role than slippage ratio for thermal wear. The appearance of the roll surface was observed by SEM under different conditions. The mechanism of thermal wear was composed of adhesive, microploughing, microcutting, oxidation, and plastic slippage wear.