Distribution of temperature fields and specific reductions at grinding balls rolling

During the high hardness grinding balls production the following to the process parameters is the key requirement. The temperature and the deformation uniformity are main parameters at the high hardness grinding balls rolling. Reduction forces can be estimated by modeling, but in this case, they were determined analytically, based on the distribution of the real specific reduction force over the observed temperature fields on the surface of the ball. Revealed a significant increase in the temperature of ball during the cross-helical rolling from equator to the poles from 880 °С to 940 °С. Established temperature increase (up to 60 °C) was observed in the area of the roll flange penetration into the workpiece, where significant deformations occur. Maximum average power of rolling generated on the top of the roll flanges has been determined, which reaches 350 MPa and decreases linearly with the distance from the top of the flange of the deformation tool and is practically reduced to zero on the equator of the ball. It was shown that linear nature of the change of the specific power of rolling is in good agreement with the linear dependence of the mill roll flange growth when it is introduced into the workpiece.