Spatial vibration characteristics of six-high cold strip rolling mills

Abstract

The vibration characteristic technical indexes of six-high cold strip rolling mills are not given, and thus the chatter vibrations cannot be predicted and prevented. The strip rolling mills can be divided into the non-statically determinate and statically determinate mills according to the statically determinate theory of mechanism. This statically determinate characteristic of the mill does not be distinguished in the traditional mill vibration analysis. In this paper, for these two distinct mill configurations, a complete spatial vibration characteristic analysis involving six degree of horizontal, vertical, axial, torsional, cross and swinging vibration will be presented based on the modified multi-body Riccati transfer matrix method. The results demonstrate that the vibration characteristics of the statically determinate mills are much better that that of nonstatically determinate ones, which significantly indicates the perniciousness of the offset distance and uncontrolled side clearance, and clarifies the necessity of upgrading of the traditional mills.