Workload Balance Optimization of Two Reverse Mills for Steel Plate Rolling

Rolling mill simulator A new platform for testing, analysis and optimization of cold rolling mills

The cold rolling of flat metal products especially in tandem or multi-stand mills is a highly complex process where the product quality is influenced by various aspects. With the help of a hardware-in-the-loop simulator, the complete rolling process can be simulated and tested in real-time. This allows pre-commissioning and pre-optimizations before the actual commissioning work is done on the p...

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF PERFORATED STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS WITH THICK PLATE IN SIMPLE FRAMES

In this paper, topology optimization (TO) is applied to determine the form, size and location of holes for the special form of perforated steel plate shear wall (PSPSW). The proposed model is based on the recently presented particular form of PSPSW that is called the ring-shaped steel plate shear wall. The strain energy is selected as the objective function in the optimization. Simple Isotropic...

SIMULTANOUS OPTIMIZATION OF SIZE AND CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT FOR LOW-RISE STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL SYSTEMS

The present study is concerned with the simultaneous optimization of the size of components and the arrangement of connections for performance-based seismic design of low-rise SPSWs. Design variables include the size of beams and columns, the thickness of the infill panels, the type of each beam-to-column connection and the type of each infill-to-boundary frame connection. The objective functio...

Reeling Mechanism for Wire Rod Rolling Mills

Neural Network Control for Rolling Mills

Worldwide, steel and aluminum production and manufacturing is still one of the major basic industries with a huge amount of material and energy consumption. Hence, optimization of the various process control schemes which are involved can lead to signiicant savings. Artiicial Neural Networks are a new information processing technique which provides a novel approach to process control problems a...