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Eight years after the successful first conference on the topic, ASMET, in cooperation with its sister society AIM, organises once again a two-day event focused on the Surface Quality of continuously cast products. The conference venue will be Graz, Austria.
The surface quality of ingots, billets, blooms and slabs is a particularly important issue in order to ensure the required surface quality of final rolled and forged products. This aspect is becoming increasingly significant, especially nowadays, when steelmakers are refocusing their activity on the search for better surface quality or new specialty steels requiring high-quality surface features. All this lies on a table of new challenges faced by steelmaking industries, when energy efficiency and consequently lower environmental impact are concerned.
This international meeting aims to share knowledge about the improvement of the surface quality of the continuously cast products.
This scope will be achieved by clear expositions about:
- recent advances on defect analysis, including sensors and quality prediction systems;
- the root causes of defect formation;
- innovative solutions for continuous casting;
- operations and maintenance;
- AI applications, simulation and computing methods.
The workshop will be performed through invited presentation and on the basis of the selection of the abstracts sent by authors interested in sharing their updated knowledge in order to increase the surface quality of the continuous cast semis.