The microstructure evolution during cold rolling of commercial purity AA1050 aluminum is investigated through numerical simulations. A finite strain elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model is employed, where the dislocation density and average grain size are taken as variables characterizing the deformed microstructure. Grain size evolution due to dynamic recrystallization is considered and the ...

production of thin steel strips with 0.18-0.26 mm thickness is about 0.75 of annual production of the two stand reversing cold mill, while its efficiency is 60%. this is due to the fact that after montaging the grinded work rolls, rolling thin steel strips (with thicknesses less than 0.18 millimeters) is unavailable. initially, unsuitable surface roughness, the friction between rolls and the st...

Production of thin steel strips with 0.18-0.26 mm thickness is about 0.75 of annual production of the two stand reversing cold mill, while its efficiency is 60%. This is due to the fact that after montaging the grinded work rolls, rolling thin steel strips (with thicknesses less than 0.18 millimeters) is unavailable. Initially, unsuitable surface roughness, the friction between rolls and the st...

The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

This paper deals with modeling and optimization of the roll-bonding process of Ti/Cu/Ti composite for determination of the best roll-bonding parameters leading to the maximum Ti/Cu bond strength by combination of neural network and genetic algorithm. An artificial neural network (ANN) program has been proposed to determine the effect of practical parameters, i.e., rolling temperature, reduction...

Aiming at predicting what happens in reality inside mills, the contact parameters of iron ore particles for discrete element method (DEM) simulations should be determined accurately. To allow the irregular shape to be accurately determined, the sphere clump method was employed in modelling the particle shape. The inter-particle contact parameters were systematically altered whilst the contact p...

With the help of a two-dimensional model we study rolling lubrication by circular (“2D fullerenes”) molecules for a wide range of parameters. The conditions under which microscopic rolling friction may be effective are identified, and related to the relative ingraining between substrate and molecule, the latter behaving as a nanosized cogwheel. PACS numbers: 68.35.Af, 81.40.Pq, 61.48.+c, 68.60.-p

A fuzzy logic control (FLC) is designed to maintain constant tension for tandem rolling mills. Genetic algorithm (GA) is used as self-organization technique for FLC to locate the optimal parameters. Simulation results verify the superior performance of genetic fuzzy controller. Keywords-tension control, fuzzy logic, genetic fuzzy system, rolling mill.

The parallel-plate flow chamber is applied in immunological studies to quantify the adhesivity of cells (e.g. leukocytes) onto ligand-bearing substrates (e.g. endothelial cells) under fluid-flow conditions that mimic the human vasculature. It is also applied to quantify platelet adhesion in vascular injury models, and tumor cell adhesion in models of cancer metastasis. Typical measures of cell ...