US3793860A - System to compensate for roll eccentricity effects and/or to simulate a mill with variable stretch characteristics - Google Patents

System to compensate for roll eccentricity effects and/or to simulate a mill with variable stretch characteristics Download PDF

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US3793860A
US3793860A US00312178A US3793860DA US3793860A US 3793860 A US3793860 A US 3793860A US 00312178 A US00312178 A US 00312178A US 3793860D A US3793860D A US 3793860DA US 3793860 A US3793860 A US 3793860A
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  • ABSTRACT A rolling mill control system which, in one aspect, compensates for the effects of roll eccentricity during operation of the rolling mill.
  • the control system includes circuitry which produces a control signal for rapid and accurate adjustments to hydraulic roll force actuators in a manner to prevent increases in the roll separating force.
  • This circuitry further includes an outer gage control loop and/or tension control loop for automatic gage control of the rolling mill.
  • the control system simulates a rolling mill structure having variable spring constants whereby an operator may select a desired mode of rolling mill control.
  • the control system provides a control signal for rapid adjustments of the roll force actuators in a direction and by the exact amount to compensate for changes in the housing stretch.
  • the control system simulates infinitely soft mill construction by rapid adjustments to the roll force actuator in a direction and by the exact amount to resist changes in the rolling force.
  • Certain coils of strip are rolled with the objective of producing uniform gage, thus requiring repeated roll gap adjustments to suit the varying rolling conditions in the mill; while other coils of strip are rolled with the objective of temper or skin pass rolling to improve their metallurgical properties, thus requiring the use of uniform rolling force throughout the rolling operation.
  • an improved automatic gage control system for a rolling mill including control circuitry to compensate for the effects of roll eccentricity during operation of the rolling mill and to simulate a rolling mill structure having variable stretch characteristics.
  • the present invention provides a control system for hydraulic roll force actuators in a rolling mill to respond to the effects of roll eccentricity and compensate for them by actuator adjustments of an exact amount to prevent a rolling force increase.
  • the actuators are controlled in response to deviations in the rolling force to compensate for the effects of roll eccentricity and/or simulate a mill structure with variable
  • the rolling force signal P is received by circuitry to produce a signal A P representing a change in the rolling force.
  • the control system operates on the basis to control the displacement of the force applicator by an amount to exactly correspond to the change in the housing stretch. If the hydraulic actuator is controlled to move by the same amount but in an opposite direction thereby rejecting any incremental changes in the rolling force, the resultant control simulates a mill structure having an infinitely soft stretch characteristic. By selecting the midpoint between these two extremes of stretch characteristics, the control system will simulate the mill stretch characteristic of a conventional rolling mill. By simulating an infinitely soft rolling mill, it was found that any increase in the roll force can be rapidly prevented. This would include roll force increases produced by roll eccentricity and thus they can be completely eliminated by such a control system. Since this control system operates to reject all roll force increases, an outer gage control loop or tension control loop are concurrently employed to provide automatic gage control.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of electrical circuitry for controlling a rolling mill in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a detailed schematic circuit diagram of the rolling mill control system according to the present invention.
  • the rolling mill shown includes a housing 10 having windows which rotatably support upper and lower back-up rolls 11 and 12, respectively.
  • Each backup roll supports a work roll 13 which forms a roll gap wherein a strip S is processed.
  • the strip After leaving the gap between the work rolls, the strip passes beneath an X-ray 14 from where it partially wraps about the outer surface of a deflector roll 15 and then continues in the downward direction to a point where it is formed into a coil 16 by a mandrel 17.
  • a screwdown which includes a screw 18 for establishing a desired gap between the work rolls.
  • a load cell 19 for providing a signal in line 21 proportional to the total roll force P in the mill.
  • a roll force actuator 22 in the form of a piston 23 and cylinder 24.
  • Hydraulic fluid is delivered from a source, not shown in the drawings, to a servo valve 25 employed to control the passage of fluid through pipes 27 to the actuator 22.
  • a position sensor 28 such as an LVDT delivers an electrical signal in line 29 proportional to the relative position of the piston 23 with respect to the cylinder 24.
  • the rolling force signal P is delivered to a housing stretch modulator 31 having electrical circuitry, to be more fully described hereinafter, which provides a signal in line 32 proportional to the elongation or stretch of the mill housing in response to a change in the rolling force. This signal which is given by the equation:
  • a h AP/M has a negative electrical polarity and is connected to one side of a potentiometer or rheostat 33.
  • the output signal from the housing stretch modulator 31 is also connected by line 34 to a proportional plus derivative circuitry 35.
  • the circuitry 35 produces a signal representing the same degree of mill housing stretch but having a positive electrical polarity and proportional to the quantity given by the equation:
  • the potentiometers 33 includes a movable tap 37 constructed for manual positioning by an operator. Depending on the position of the movable tap, a signal lying between or equal to one of the quantities and + AP/M is delivered by line 38 to an actuator position controller 39.
  • the position sensor signal in line 29 is used as a feedback signal by the controller 39 to generate an actuator position control signal in line 40 connected to a servo valve current controller 41 which also receives a feedback signal in line 42 from the servo valve 25.
  • a position adjustment signal for the actuator 22 is transmitted by line 43 to the servo valve 25 for accurate and rapid roll gap changes by the actuator. As previously indicated, these actuators are responsive to signals having a frequency as high as cycles per second with no appreciable attenuation.
  • the rolling mill control system simulates an infinitely rigid mill construction whereby the roll gap adjustment made by the roll force actuators 22 is an the control system functions on the basis of simulating a rolling mill having infinitely soft mill stretch characteristic whereby the increase in the housing stretch is immediately responded to by the cylinder position controller 39 in a manner to reject the increase and maintain the rolling force constant.
  • the control system compensates for the effects of roll eccentricity by maintaining a constant rolling force and rejecting any increases to the rolling force.
  • temper rolling or skin pass rolling may be effected whereby a truly constant rolling force is provided at the roll gap.
  • An outer gage control loop is added when the control system is employed to compensate for the effects of roll eccentricity while processing strip to a uniform thickness.
  • a gage control loop includes, for example, the X-ray 14 whose strip thickness deviation signal is transmitted along line 51 to a gage control amplifier 52 whose output signal is transmitted by line 53 to a switch 54.
  • the switch 54 receives from line 55 an error signal from a tension controller 56 associated with the deflector roll 15 in a manner to provide uniform tension in the strip at the delivery side of the mill.
  • an automatic gage control signal is produced in line 57 representing either the X-ray gage control signal from line 53 or the tension control signal from line 55.
  • the switch may feed either both or none of these two signals to line 57. When both signals are transmitted, the gage control function is divided between tension and roll gap adjustments.
  • the load cell 19 provides a signal in line 21 proportional to the rolling force P between the work rolls.
  • the rolling force signal passes through resistor 60 to a summing point 61.
  • Point 61 is connected by a line 62 through resistor 63 to a potentiometer 64 manually set to a desired rolling force reference signal P
  • Point 61 may also receive an automatic gage control signal in an outer control loop from line 65 connected through a resistor 66 to a switch 67. This switch is designed to transmit either, both or neither of two input signals consisting of a tension control error signal in line 68 and a thickness error signal in line 69.
  • the thickness error circuitry includes a tension reference signal provided by potentiometer 70 in line 71 passing through a resistor 72 to a summing point 73.
  • Point 73 is connected through a resistor 74 to a tensiometer 75.
  • the tensiometer 75 when incorporated as part of the deflector roll apparatus 15 produces a signal proportional to the actual strip tension at the delivery side of the mill.
  • Point 73 is also connected to the input of an integrating operational amplifier 76 having a feedback path including resistor 77 in series with capacitor 78. The output signal from amplifier 76 is transmitted by line 68 to switch 67.
  • the circuitry for producing the gage error signal includes an actual strip thickness signal from X-ray gage 14 in line 51 through resistor 79 to a summing point 80.
  • the point 80 is connected by line 81 through a resistor 82 to a potentiometer 83, manually set to represent a desired strip thickness reference signal.
  • Point 80 is also connected to the input of a proportional operational amplifier 84 having a feedback path including resistor 85.
  • the output signal from amplifier 85 is transmitted by line 69 to switch 67.
  • point 61 it is connected to the input of a proportional operational amplifier 90 having a feedback path including a resistor 91.
  • the resistor 91 has a resistance proportional to the known mill modulus M,,, and represents the quantity.
  • the signal from amplifier 90 in line 93 is connected to one side of a manually set potentiometer 92 and is proportional to a change in the housing stretch given by the quantity
  • the output signal from amplifier 90 in line 93 is applied through a resistor 94 to a proportional operational amplifier 95 having a feedback path including a resistor 96.
  • the output from amplifier 96 is a signal in line 97 connected to the opposed contact point of potentiometer 92 and represents the quantity AP/M
  • the signal in line 97 is produced as an inverted signal such that quantitatively, it is equal to but having an electrical polarity opposite to the signal in line 93.
  • the potentiometer 92 includes a movable tap 98 for transmitting to line 99 the signal in line 93, line 97 or proportional parts of the signal quantities lying between the ranges of these signals.
  • Line 99 is connected through resistor 101 to a summing point 102.
  • Point 102 is connected through resistor 103 to line 29 of the position sensor 28 of the roll force actuator 22.
  • Point 102 is also connected to the input of a proportional operational amplifier 104 having a feedback path including a resistor 105.
  • the amlifier 104 is employed as an actuator position controller having an output signal transmitted by line 106 through a resistor 107 to a summing point 108.
  • Point 108 receives a feedback signal in line 109 through resistor 110 in line 42 from the servo valve 25.
  • Line 42 is connected to ground through a resistor 111.
  • Point 108 is also connected to the input of an operational amplifier 112 having a feedback path including a resistor 113.
  • the amplifier 112 is employed as a servo valve current controller. As previously indicated, the servo valve controls the passage of fluid pressure to the hydraulic force actuator in the pipes 27.
  • this actuator position change is represented by a position feedback signal in line 29 to the cylinder position controller amplifier 104.
  • the amplifier 104 provides an error signalin line 106 for servo valve current controller amplifier 112 to adjust the servo valve to position the hydraulic actuator to reduce the error to zero.
  • the operator selects a mode of rolling mill control to simulate an infinitely soft rolling mill in which event he will position the movable tap 98 to receive the signal AP/M in line 93.
  • the electrical signal in line 28 represents a housing stretch change computed by the equation:
  • a h AP/M This signal is fed to the cylinder position controller amplifier 104 where it is also combined with the position feedback signal from the cylinder position sensor as previously indicated.
  • the controller then provides an output signal for the servo valve current controller to adjust the servo valve in a manner that will cause the piston to be immediately retracted within the cylinder by an amount equal to to restore the roll force to its original value and thereby maintain a constant rolling force and eliminate the detrimental effects of roll eccentricity.
  • gage corrections are prevented.
  • the outer gage control loop is added by switch 67 to modify the roll force reference signal P
  • This outer gage control loop may be provided by tension controller error signal, the thickness error signal, or a combination of the signals from lines 68 and 69 as determined the manuallypositioned switch 67.
  • the method of claim 8 including the steps of: generating a second electrical signal proportional to said change in the rolling force; generating a gage control error signal; and modifying sid electrical signal by the combination with said gage control error signal. 10. The method of claim 8 including the steps of:
  • the method of claim 7 including the step of producing an error signal having a response time by said actuator of up to cycles per second for said step of controlling said hydraulic roll force actuator.
  • control signal selection means receiving said second and third signals for delivering a roll gap adjusting signal selected to simulate a rolling mill structure having a desired stretch characteristic
  • control signal selection means including a potentiometer having a movable tap, said potentiometer having a first input contact receiving said second signal, said potentiometer further including a second input contact electrically opposed to said first input contact and receiving said third electrical signal.
  • a control system for a rolling mill of the type employed to compensate for eccentricity characteristics of rolls while rotating in a mill which produce cyclic changes in the gap defined by the processing rolls said rolling mill including housing means for rotatably supporting said rolls, fluid actuated means carried by said housing means for adjusting said roll gap defined by the processing rolls, the improvement comprising:
  • control circuit receiving said signal for generating a roll eccentricity compensating signal proportional to a roll gap change for eliminating said elastic changes
  • control means receiving said roll eccentricity compensating signal for adjusting said fluid actuated means.
  • gage error signal generating means for modifying said signal proportional to elastic changes of the housing means.

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