Steel Rolling: Principle, Process & Application

This book will be a useful handbook for shop floor personnel to the higher management of rolling mill industry; as well it will cater to the polytechnic/engineering students of metallurgical/mechanical/ process engineering. It has covered all aspects of rolling, which includes rolling of all major sections; where in roll pass design is required. This book may also be useful as reference book for students/professionals of rolling technology. The book has a numbers of illustrative chapters. This book deliberated on the fundamental of mechanical working and, its theory in a very simpler way. In addition it has also provided coverage on rolls, rolls cooling, roll turning, roll reclamation, investigation of roll breakage, roll management and roll bearing also, these contribute to the highest in the production cost. It also provides the description of vital elements of roll pass design in a very simple and systematic manner. It has a chapter on operational management of a rolling mill, which includes safety, inventory. Packaging of the finished products and modern operating mill practices and technologies are also discussed in details. Above all, first time it has been illustrated to how to design an individual rolling section step-by-step with the help of formulas, graphs and various aspects based on experience. About the Author: N.K. Gupta is a metallurgical engineer with 38 years' of experience in working in various capacities in the largest steel plant of India i.e. the Bhili Steel Plant. Trained in Russian rolling technology, he has vast experience in the development of sectional profiles, rationalization and augmentation of the production in Bar and rod mill and different section mills. He is also an expert in multiple other areas including Mill operation, finishing and Dispatch, market development and marketing and safety of steel plants.