To investigate the effect of laminar cooling parameters on temperature field and heat transfer coefficient, an experiment platform for analyzing laminar cooling is designed and made by the author. Making use of the equipment, the cooling experiments with the various cooling conditions have been carried. Based on the experimental results, the effects of different water flows and water temperature on cooling rate are presented in this study. And it can be found that adding impurities into cooling medium is an effective way to improving the cooling rate. The research achievements have a certain reference value for setting parameters in laminar cooling process of heavy plate.

A numerical simulation model for vertical-horizontal rolling process in roughing trains is built according to 3-D rigid-plastic finite element method (FEM), which is validated by comparing the simulation results with measured ones of industrial production. The principle of width deviation appearing on head and tail of slab is investigated by the finite element (FE) simulations. A new polynomial short stroke control (SSC) model is developed based on the comprehensive simulation results and the analyzed results show that, at the aspect of width control, the new SSC model is more effective than the two line one.

A new groove design method of uniform strong strain of bar rolling was proposed based on the principle of strong plastic deformation to manufacture ultra-fine grain(UFG), and flat-oval groove type with the characteristics of big crushed and multidirectional deformation was set up. The numerical analysis model of hot continuous bar rolling process was created using nonlinear finite element method. The study of the law of plastic strain distribution after each rolling pass of the caliber series indicated that the caliber can satisfy with the precise size and shape, and can also better introduce the plastic strain to the center of cross section and get uniform strong strain. The largest strain was more than 5.0 in the center of cross section, in which condition ultra-fine grain can be fabricated. Therefore, this study provides important theoretical basis for the ultra-fine grain of bar rolling development.

Against 4100 heavy plate miller, a 3-D rolling model involving rolls’ elastic deformation and workpiece’s elastic-plastic deformation is established using large deformation elastic-plastic finite element method. The distributions of the rolls’ bending deformation and the roll gap shape by simulation under the different processes. The results can provide the practical referential value for equipment design and processing setup of heavy plate mill. The FE model may be used to analyze skinning process on off-line.