...T. Tarnopolskaya; D. J. Gates A sudden loss of lateral stability (strip track-off) is a serious operational problem in cold rolling of steel that often leads to catastrophic consequences such as mill crashes and roll damage. This paper studies the causes of instability in lateral motion of a metal...

... that these vibrations are in fact produced by the interaction between the kinematic chain and the phenomenon of the plastic deformation of the strip occurring in the roll bite. Precisely, the vibrations are the expression of an unstable limit cycle due to the combination of the dynamics associated with these two...