The Concept of Units

Think of a rolling process as of a sequence of roll passes and intermediate times, called transports. Both are subsumed under the term unit. The Unit class is the base class representing this concept. A unit can most abstractly be considered as a black box transforming the state of a profile, thus taking an incoming profile instance, simulating its evolution within the unit and yielding an outgoing profile instance. See The Base Unit Class for more detailed information on this concept.

Some units support subdivision into disk elements, to provide finer spatial resolution in rolling resp. length direction.

• The Base Unit Class
• Roll Pass Units
  • Rolls
  • Grooves
    • The Generic Elongation Groove
    • Box-like Grooves
      • The Box Groove
      • The Constricted Box Groove
    • Round-like Grooves
      • The Round Groove
      • The False Round Groove
    • Oval-like Grooves
      • The Circular Oval Groove
      • The Flat Oval Groove
      • The Swedish Oval Groove
      • The Constricted Swedish Oval Groove
      • The Three Radii Oval Groove
      • The Flanked Three Radii Oval Groove
      • The Upset Oval Groove
    • Diamond-like grooves
      • The Diamond Groove
      • The Square Groove
      • The Gothic Groove
    • The Spline Groove
  • Three Roll Pass Units
• Transport Units
• Pass Sequence Units
• Rotator Units
• Disk Elements