Aluminium Rolling: Processes, Principles and 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 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