Systems and methods for using full-width hot sprays to pre-heat rolling mills prior to processing of metal sheet or plate are described herein. The hot sprays may be individually controlled. Using hot sprays can allow the rolling mill to reach operating temperature and achieve a desired thermal crown so that metal sheet or plate may be processed immediately within tolerances for flatness and gauge accuracy. Pre-heating of rolling mills can eliminate the need of the rolling mill to operate in a transitional period of work roll heating and can increase efficiency by eliminating or reducing scrap material and mill downtime. Hot sprays may also be incorporated with existing coolant systems to provide thermal control systems for rolling mills with bi-directional temperature controls.

A cooling device with variable cooling rate for treating metal materials, in particular for cooling steel sheets in plate mills, hot strip mills or thermal treatment lines, by means of a spray nozzle cooling system. The cooling device consists of at least two cooling bars one of each two cooling bars being situated on the lower side and the other on the upper side transversely to the sheet travel direction of the sheet and centrally between two roller table rollers and includes a spray nozzle cooling system with which a plurality of full jet nozzles and a plurality of full cone nozzles are associated, the full jet nozzles being arranged symmetrically to the full cone nozzles. A method for operating the cooling device according to the disclosure

A method for manufacturing flexible rolling of metal strips, in which a metal strip with pre-definable material thickness is guided through a mill stand by at least two operating steps, which includes several rolls, the metallic strip is during the rolling operation set to lead through a roll gap, where a curve bending line is steered to achieve a defined profile.

A method for manufacturing flexible rolling of metal strips, in which a metal strip with pre-definable material thickness is guided through a mill stand by at least two operating steps, which includes several rolls, the metallic strip is during the rolling operation set to lead through a roll gap, where a curve bending line is steered to achieve a defined profile.

The present invention discloses a method for channel decoupling of a whole-roller flatness meter for a cold-rolled strip. The method includes the following steps: 1, setting a channel number and a channel breadth of the flatness meter; 2, obtaining an influence matrix under the condition of coupled channels; 3, calculating an inverse matrix of the influence matrix; 4, decoupling the channel by the inverse matrix of the influence matrix; and 5, obtaining flatness distribution after channel decoupling. The present invention decouples the channel of the whole-roller flatness meter by inverting the influence matrix and multiplying with the detection force vector. The present invention reproduces the true force vector and flatness distribution, and provides a new method for improving the flatness detection accuracy.

The present invention discloses a method for channel decoupling of a whole-roller flatness meter for a cold-rolled strip. The method includes the following steps: 1, setting a channel number and a channel breadth of the flatness meter; 2, obtaining an influence matrix under the condition of coupled channels; 3, calculating an inverse matrix of the influence matrix; 4, decoupling the channel by the inverse matrix of the influence matrix; and 5, obtaining flatness distribution after channel decoupling. The present invention decouples the channel of the whole-roller flatness meter by inverting the influence matrix and multiplying with the detection force vector. The present invention reproduces the true force vector and flatness distribution, and provides a new method for improving the flatness detection accuracy.

An springback compensation method for on-line real-time metal sheet roll bending includes the steps of using multiple rollers to bend a continuous metal sheet of multiple sections having different materials or different thickness respectively; using a first position sensor to individually measure springback angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet, and feeding back to a programmable logic controller; using the programmable controller to control a bending roller to compensate the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet respectively; using a second position sensor to individually measure compensated angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet; and comparing a difference between the compensated angles and standard angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet after compensating bending.

An springback compensation method for on-line real-time metal sheet roll bending includes the steps of using multiple rollers to bend a continuous metal sheet of multiple sections having different materials or different thickness respectively; using a first position sensor to individually measure springback angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet, and feeding back to a programmable logic controller; using the programmable controller to control a bending roller to compensate the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet respectively; using a second position sensor to individually measure compensated angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet; and comparing a difference between the compensated angles and standard angles of the multiple sections of the bent metal sheet after compensating bending.

A cooling system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a cooling part which supplies a cooling fluid to a strip; and a boiling film removal part, which physically comes into contact with the strip and removes a boiling film formed by the cooling fluid. The boiling film removal part according to the embodiment may be disposed at a position where a nuclear boiling and a film boiling are mixed together along a widthwise direction of the strip.

Systems and methods of quenching a metal substrate include cooling a top surface and a bottom surface of the metal substrate until a strip temperature is cooled to an intermediate temperature. Cooling of the top surface of the metal substrate is discontinued when the strip temperature reaches the intermediate temperature, and cooling of the bottom surface of the metal substrate continues until the metal substrate reaches a target temperature, where the target temperature is less than the intermediate temperature.