Plasticine strips are rolled between cylindrical rollers to model the phenomenon of material transfer in metal rolling. Strips of thin plastic film ‘clingfilm’) on the plasticine strip are used to model the oxide layer that covers the surface of aluminium. The effect of gaps opening up between he clingfilm strips is investigated. It is found that the percentage area of the exposed strip giving ...

Abstract Width-related defects are a common occurrence in the Hot Strip Mill process which can lead to extra processing, concessions, or scrapping. The detection and Root Cause Analysis of these is largely manual vulnerable several negative factors including human error, late feedback, knock-on effects successive steel strip products. Automated tools utilize Artificial Intelligence Machine Lear...