Mold Slag Entrainment Mechanisms in Continuous Casting Molds Lance C. Hibbeler and Brian G. Thomas The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering 1206 West Green Street (MC244), Urbana, IL, USA, 61801 Phone: + Email: lhibbel2, bgthomas
Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Prior to the introduction of continuous casting in the 1950s, steel was poured into stationary molds to form ingots.
Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the materials are usually metals or various time setting materials that cure after mixing two or more ...
casting speed and mold width. Fluctuations were 24 observed in an actual caster tohave the same frequency and have about 70% of the amplitude of the applied mold oscillations. This percentange was observed to increase with casting speed, 24. but a water model study. 22. showed that the fluctuation amplitude is independent of casting speed.
A casting process has been described in US Patent 2,852,811. 28,29 This process involves coating a layer of PTFE dispersion on a metal or polyimide carrier, followed by drying and sintering the coating. The low CCT of PTFE dispersion limits the thickness that can be applied in a single pass.
