Method of influencing the strip contour in the edge region of a rolled strip

A method of influencing a strip contour in an edge area of a rolled strip rolled in a roll gap formed by work rolls of a roll stand, comprising compensating by superimposing a conventional CVC contour a harmful side effect of a unilaterally tapered roll on a body portion of the roll gap, further comprising using unilaterally tapered rolls as work rolls, and determining a crown of the work rolls by an off-line computation, further comprising computing the crown required for compensating the effect of the unilateral taper in accordance with different rolled strip widths and corresponding displacement positions of the work rolls in accordance with the equation

• K.sub.1 (B).multidot..DELTA. D(SPOS)/2=K.sub.2 (B).multidot..DELTA. AW-Crown(B)
• wherein the crown required for different strip widths results by equating both effects:
• ##EQU2## and wherein .DELTA. D (SPOS) is a diameter difference of a unilaterally tapered roll in an area of contact between the work roll and a back-up roll,
• K.sub.1 (B) is a difference quotient for the effect of the conical taper between back-up roll and work roll and,
• K.sub.2 (B) is a difference quotient for the crown of the work roll.