9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Producers of cast products are in duty to their customers to document the inner quality of the product. The ultrasound measuring is a widely known and well-established technique for non-destructive analysis of the inside of a material used in medicine and many other fields. Every women being pregnant appreciates that very much being able to get the situation of her unborn baby without any big...

One of the challenges when casting new high-alloyed steel grades, is to cope with segregation, leading to central segregation. The central segregation is influenced by the cast structure (which in turn depends on the alloy content of the steel melt, on superheat, on secondary cooling) and the machine state. There are several possibilities to perform an assessment of the macrosegregation...

This papers presents an experimental and numerical analysis of the redistribution of the alloy chemical components, the grain solidification structure and likelihood of porosity formation in continuous casting of stainless steel. An experimental setup consisting of a rectangular ingot was developed to mimic the solidification conditions of a continuous cast slab. The amount of energy extracted...

Macro-segregation in the center of CC strands can lead to problems during downstream treatment and application of steel. Particularly high carbon or high manganese steel grades are susceptible to form those high concentration areas concerning their pronounced heterogeneous structure during final solidification. Many investigations have carried-out during the past decades to determine those...