The production efficiency of PHC pipe pile end plate is improved greatly by hot rolling, which mainly coils the strip steel into a helix. During the process of rolling, the outer side of the fiber becomes thinner under the tensions, while the inner side is elongated under the compress. As a result, the different thickness between the outside and the inside of the end plate affects the quality of the product. Took the end plate for example, it had the diameter of the outer circle Φ510 mm, the inner circle diameter Φ295 mm, and the thickness 23 mm. In order to make the internal and external thickness of the end plate nearly the same, the cross-sectional size of the strip should be 24 mm×21 mm×112 mm according to the theory of metal plastic deformation. Then the rolling coiling process was simulated and analyzed by ABAQUS, and the final cross-sectional size of the strip was designed as 22.6 mm×23.5 mm×109.2 mm. The simulation results are almost the same as the calculation results, and the reasonable cross-sectional size of the end plate blank produced by hot rolling was obtained.
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