The Analysis of Stiffness Condition in Rolling Thin-Walled Ring

The thin-walled ring rolling, a new rolling process, can produce the thin-walled rings that the traditional methods are difficult to process. It has the advantages of simple equipment, low investment and high productive. According to the mechanics analysis of the multiple rollers rolling, it established a mechanical model of small deflection bending compression rod. After solved the mechanics equations, it obtained the thin-walled ring's rolling stiffness condition. From the theoretical formula, it could find that the increase of friction coefficient, ring radius, roller radius and feed per rotation were disadvantage for the thin-walled ring rolling stiffness condition. However, the increase of the ring cross sectional inertia was advantage for the stiffness condition. The theoretical formula could provide theoretical basis and guidance for the quantity design of roller pairs in rolling machine, design of ring cross section shape and selection of ring raw material.