Study the Effect of Different Roller Shape on the Spread of Material in Rolling Operation Using Manufacturing Simulation

Abstract

Simulation plays a vital role in present-day product development. Simulation of manufacturing process in product design and development helps to save valuable resources in terms of materials, energy and also in the optimisation of process parameters. Metal rolling accounts to majority of the materials used in the bulk-forming. It is difficult to predict metal flow in the lateral direction in the conventional metal rolling. Manufacturing the rollers of different shapes and conducting experiments physically consumes valuable resources. These valuable resource are saved using the simulation of rolling operations using FEM-based metal forming simulation software. Simulation experiments are carried out to determine the effect of different shapes of rollers on the spread of material. In this work, spread of the material is analysed when the material is passed through different shaped rollers. Three types of rollers have been designed to study the effect of adding grooves on the spread of materials. It is seen that smaller groove size decreases the spread whereas larger size groove on the rollers increases the spread.