220 Pages
by
CRC Press
220 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This monograph on the continuous casting of steel has been produced at the request of the Institute of Materials with the aim of providing university professionals and students, those already working in the steel industry and steel plant suppliers in related activities, with a concise account of the engineering, process and product technology of the continuous casting of steel and how this has... Read more
1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historical background 1.2 Description of the Continuous Casting Process and the Evolution of Machine Design 1.3 Advantages of Continuous Casting over Ingot Casting 2 LIQUID STEEL SUPPLY 2.1 General details 2.2 Compositional Control 2.3 Temperature Control in Ladle and Tundish 2.4 Tundish Technology 2.5 Ladle to Tundish Teeming 2.6 Tundish to Mould Teeming 3 MACHINE COMPONENTS, HEAT TRANSFER AND STRAND SOLIDIFICATION, 3.1 Mould Technology 3.2 Strand Support Systems and Secondary Cooling 3.3 Strand Straightening and Strand Withdrawal 3.4 Computer Simulation Models 4 PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS AND FACTORS AFFECTING AS-CAST QUALITY 4.1 Categorisation of Final Products and the As-cast 4.2 Affect of Chemical, Process and Engineering Parameters on Surface Defects 4.3 Effect of Chemical, Process and Engineering Parameters on Internal Quality 4.4 Geometrical Defects 5 SPECIAL PROCESSES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES 5.1 Horizontal Casting 5.2 Beam Blank Casting 5.3 Thin Slab Casting 5.4 Strip Casting 6 PROCESS CONTROL AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT 6.1 Automatic On-line Process Control Systems Continuous Casting of Steel 6.2 On-Line Monitoring Systems 6.3 Off-Line Measuring
Biography
W.R. Irving is a physicist by profession and joined the steel industry in 1964 at the Research laboratories of Richard Thomas and Baldwins where he carried out his first research on continuous casting on the vertical slab caster at Penteg works.
