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Manufacturing dish shaped rings on radial-axial ring rolling mills

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Ring rolling is an established method to produce seamless rings of different cross-sectional geometries. For dish shaped rings, there are applications in different areas such as offshore, aeronautics or the energy sector. At the moment, dish shaped rings are produced by machining of rings with rectangular shaped cross section, by (open die) hollow forging on a conical mandrel or by using shaped ring rolling tools. These ways of manufacturing have the disadvantage of high material waste, additional costs for special tools, long process time and limited or inflexible geometries. Therefore, the manufacturing of dish shaped rings on conventional radial-axial ring rolling mills would expand the range of products for ring producers. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of an alternative to the current manufacturing processes, without requiring additional tooling and material costs. Therefore, the intended formation of dish shaped rings—previously regarded as a form error—is investigated. Based on an analysis of geometrical requirements and metal flow mechanisms, a rolling strategy is presented, causing dishing and ring climbing by a large height reduction of the ring. Using this rolling strategy dish shaped rings with dishing angles up to 18° were achieved. In addition to the experiments finite element method (FEM)—simulations of the process have been successfully conducted, in order to analyze the local strain evolution. However, when the contact between ring and main roll is lost in the process the ring starts to oscillate around the mandrel and neither dishing nor ring climbing is observed.

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The authors would like to thank the ″Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG) for the financial support of these works within the project HI 79035-1 “Methode zur Herstellung nahtloser konischer Ringe mit definiert eingestellten Neigungswinkeln auf Radial-Axial Ringwalzwerken”.

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    Joachim Seitz, Vahid Jenkouk & Gerhard Hirt

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Seitz, J., Jenkouk, V. & Hirt, G. Manufacturing dish shaped rings on radial-axial ring rolling mills. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 7, 611–618 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-013-0486-y

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