“…For at rolling of plate, slab or thick strip either purely slipping contact, [6], Lin and Lin [10], Lee [11], or a combination of both slip and no-slip, [7], Richelsen [8,9], have been used for the description of the interfacial contact between the roll and the work piece. While 2D studies of the rolling process are reported in [1][2][3]8,9], the results shown in [7] are for both 2D and 3D studies, and results for 3D studies of the rolling process are given in [4][5][6]10,11]. However, for the 3D studies it is not in all cases clear how the friction force vector at the two-dimensional interface between the roll and the work piece is described and included in the analyses, e.g.…”