• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.762-769
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• 2004

An analytical approach is presented to investigate the deformation characteristics of billets in a continuous billet mill using power driven horizontal stands and idle vertical stands. The analysis is validated by comparison to the experimental results in a previously published work. The analytical results have shown that, apart from the problems of slip and buckling of billet, there are some shortcomings involved in this method. Compared to conventional rolling with all driven stands, the roll load for idle vertical stands and the rolling torque for horizontal stands are almost doubled. The billet is severely stressed within the roll-bite of idle vertical stands and the overall rolling power has increased by one third of that for conventional rolling. Theseshortcomings impair the feasibility of industrial application of idle vertical stand rolling method.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.89-99
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• 2020

In this paper, we consider a dyadic server control policy that combines workload control and single vacation. Customer arrives at the system with Bernoulli process, waits until his or her turn, and then receives service on FCFS(First come first served) discipline. If there is no customer to serve in the system, the idle single server spends a vacation of discrete random variable V. If the total service times of the waiting customers at the end of vacation exceeds predetermined workload threshold D, the server starts service immediately, and if the total workload of the system at the end of the vacation is less than or equal to D, the server stands by until the workload exceeds threshold and becomes busy. For the discrete-time Geo/G/1 queueing system operated under this dyadic server control policy, an idle period is analyzed and the steady-state queue length distribution is derived in a form of generating function.