Aluminium rolling : processes, principles & applications /
A. Dedication -- B. The reflections -- C. Preface -- D. Acknowledgements -- E. Author's profile -- F. Section - i -- 1. Specifications of aluminium alloys -- Introduction -- Special properties of aluminium -- Applications -- Standards for alloys of aluminium -- World standards -- More about all...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2011]
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. Dedication
- B. The reflections
- C. Preface
- D. Acknowledgements
- E. Author's profile
- F. Section ? i
- 1. Specifications of aluminium alloys
- Introduction
- Special properties of aluminium
- Applications
- Standards for alloys of aluminium
- World standards
- More about alloys
- Tempers
- Heat treatment processes
- Surface treatment ? a brief review
- Reference tables
- Bibliography and references
- 2. Melting and holding furnaces, furnace controls and molten metal treatments
- Introduction
- Aluminium melting and holding furnaces
- Melting loss
- Casting
- Melt impurities, degassers and inclusions (gaseous and solid)
- Degassing
- Chlorination
- Molten metal filtration
- Molten metal level control
- Grain refining: introduction
- Molten aluminium stirring
- Bibliography and references
- 3. D.c. Casting, electromagnetic casting, continuous strip casting, scalping, soaking and preheating
- Introduction
- Conventional d.c. Casting
- Introduction to electromagnetic d.c. Casting
- A comparative analysis of the modern casting technologies
- Continuous strip casting (equipment and technology)
- Hazelett belt caster
- Caterpillar casting machine/block caster
- Roll casters
- Single roll: continuous drag casting
- Scalping
- Preheating, homogenising and soaking
- Bibliography and references
- 4. Introduction to hot rolling, cold rolling, foil rolling and basic philosophy of product quality control
- Introduction
- Types of rolling
- Hot rolling of aluminium
- Aluminium cold rolling and foil rolling
- Conventional terms used in rolling
- Hot rolling of aluminium and hot rolling mills
- Special features of modern hot-mills
- The latest advances in hot rolling technology
- Hot mill roll coolant
- Hot mill coolant filtration
- Hot-mill roll brushing
- Introduction to cold rolling
- Shape control philosophy
- Roll bend control
- Backup roll chatter?resonance?'fifth octave chatter'
- Mill drive characteristics
- Bibliography and references
- 5. Theories of rolling
- Introduction
- Bite
- Neutral point, neutral plane, no-slip angle
- Forward slip
- Observations and conclusions
- Flow of material and the criteria of yielding
- External friction
- Brown's investigation
- Plastic deformation: theories of rolling
- Rolling load and mean specific roll pressure
- Bibliography and references
- 6. Quality control automations
- Introduction
- Factors affecting the strip thickness
- Analysis
- General arrangement in a mill
- Mill stiffness
- Material stiffness
- Gauge, profile and shape
- Elastic/plastic curves
- Load control mode
- Position control mode
- Summary
- Effectiveness of gauge control
- Entry tension and its control
- Types of error feed and controls.
- Gauge error feedback control
- Gauge-meter control
- Mass-flow control
- Thickness measuring gauges
- Types of product optimization
- Anatomy of a proposed optimization system
- Bibliography and references
- 7. Cold rolling coolant base, coolant additives and tribology in rolling
- Introduction
- Chemical considerations
- Base oil
- Reduction additives
- General considerations
- Hydrodynamic film forming characteristics
- Tests to assess relative merits of lubricants
- Comments on the various tests on load bearing and deformation in context to rolling
- Comments
- Conclusion regarding coolant and additive
- Tribology in rolling
- Bibliography and references
- 8. Rolls and roll shells, roll grinding, grinding wheels and roll inspection
- Introduction
- Forged rolls and cast rolls
- Grinding and maintenance of rolls
- Definitions
- Recommended grinding practices
- Bibliography and references
- 9. Annealing and heat-treatments, levelling and various finishing operations, quality control systems and handling
- Annealing: furnaces and processes (refer chapter 1 also)
- Stage of intermediate annealing
- Finishing
- Tension levelling
- Slitting line
- Strand separator
- Cut-to-length line
- Other finishing operations
- Electroplating
- Painting and other organic coating
- Surface inspection and on line statistical process-control system
- Material handling systems
- Bibliography and references
- G. Section ? ii
- 10. Supportive/complementary technical extensions
- Conventional terms used in rolling and connected processes
- Finishing and general
- More information on hazelett and caterpillar casting (block caster or caster ii)
- Thickness measuring gauges
- Common properties of aluminium
- Water corrosion on aluminium
- From the information desk
- Problems, causes and cures
- Bibliography and references
- H. Section ? iii
- 11. History of aluminium, introduction to production processes and elementary metallurgy
- History of aluminium
- Introduction to aluminium: a metal with special properties
- Growth potential of aluminium and statistical information
- Production processes
- Special points
- Alternative process for al_2o_3
- Alumina to primary aluminium (hall?heroult process)
- Introduction to the metallurgical structure of aluminium
- Factors influencing the grain size and homogeneity of the casting
- Fabrication-process flow sheet
- Grain growth in d.c. Casting
- Environmental issues
- Aluminium and health
- Bibliography and references.