Abstract
For ring rolling without axial rolls, how to effectively suppress axial spread has become an important subject. In the paper, a reliable coupled thermo-mechanical three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model for hot rolling of large rings is developed. Spread evolution of titanium alloy large rings with different sizes are explored and compared based the developed model. The main results show that (1) the spread in a ring takes on an axisymmetric distribution after the first revolution of the ring. (2) with the equivalent ratio of feed amount per revolution decreasing, the peak spread transfers from the outer layer to the inner layer for rings with different sizes.
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