انتقال حرارت و رفتارانجماد پوسته‎ای در قالب ریخته‎گری پیوسته

Heat Transfer and Deformation Behavior of Shell Solidification

in Wide and Thick Slab Continuous Casting Mold

انتقال حرارت و رفتار تغییرشکل انجماد پوسته‎ای در ورق بزرگ و ضخیم قالب ریخته‎گری پیوسته

ABSTRACT

The shell solidification in continuous casting mold is a rather complex process that is coupled with thermal and mechanical behaviors, which are related to numerous of defects occurring in slabs surface and subsurface during practical continuous casting. Intending to increase the understanding of shell thermal and mechanical behaviors in continuous casting molds to improve the casting process, numerous studies[1-13] have been conducted over the past few decades by numerical simulation. However, among these previous studies, most of the mathematical models neglected the effects of mold flux film on shell heat transfer[1-6,11] or assumed that the mold flux film distribution in shell/mold gap was uniform or changed linearly with the mold height[7-10,12,13]. It is obvious that the assumptions did not conform to the actual case of practical continuous casting that the mold flux film in mold distributes dynamically both along mold height and circumference with the evolutions of shell/mold gap and shell temperature, and affects the shell thermal and mechanical behaviors greatly.

مشخصه‎های ضخامت پوسته در ورق تولید شده به روش ریخته‎گری مداوم

Characteristics of shell thickness in a slab continuous casting mold

مشخصه‎های ضخامت پوسته در ورق تولید شده به روش ریخته‎گری مداوم 

ABSTRACT

It is of great importance to form a thick and sufficiently uniform solidifying shell in the mold to prevent breakout in the continuous casting process. Breakout starts to take place at the thinnest point commonly, and therefore, it is significant to investigate the slab thickness distribution in longitudinal and transverse directions to determine this point. Experimental and numerical simulations are the two ways for  measurement of shell thickness in the mold. The former such as adding sulfur into the mold [1], disturbs the normal production and obtains some useful data, which cannot characterize the shell thickness profiles thoroughly. On the other hand, several scholars have researched the flow, heat transfer, and solidification in the mold by numerical simulation . However, some profound researches on the characteristics of the shell thickness have been done.