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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singh, R. V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2011]
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.