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An innovative method for producing balls from scrap rail head

Written by Elodie Lebègue | May 15, 2018

The paper, written by Lublin University in Poland, describes an innovative technological solution for producing balls from scrap rail heads.

The proposed method consists in performing the following operations:

  • the side pressing of a rail head to increase shape compactness,
  • a process for forming a cylindrical rod by cross wedge rolling (CWR),
  • quenching of the produced balls.

Tools for the above manufacturing operations are designed, and numerical simulations are performed with FORGE® to verify whether the assumptions of the proposed technique are correct. A flat-wedge reversing mill is designed and constructed that enables performing the two abovementioned rolling operations without idle running, which makes the design innovative on a global scale.

The implementation of the proposed method would enable producing balls for grinding media used in ball mills.

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