Rolling Temperature for Steel Hot Flat Rolled at Low Strain Rates

Abstract

Different methods of obtaining averages have been used to determine mean rolling temperatures from measured temperatures of various specimens during roll contact in hot flat rolling. The obtained mean rolling temperatures were used in turn in hot rolling simulation programs based on Sims, and Bland and Ford’s theories for calculating rolling loads and torque during hot flat rolling of steels at low strain rates (0.08 – 1.5 s-1). The hot rolling Bland and Ford’s (HRBF) Theory and Sim’s Theory gave similar results when any of the averaging methods of temperature is used to calculate rolling load and torque at high strain rates (1.5 –500s-1). However at low strain rates HRBF gave closer approximations to experimental results. Comparing the results with experimental values, the harmonic mean was found to give the best mean rolling temperature for hot flat rolling simulation at low strain rates compared to geometric mean, arithmetic mean and root mean square.