ECCC-39连铸厚板几何热机建模.pdfVIP

Product quality (surface defects, internal quality) Session 3 1 Thermomechanical modeling of thick slabs geometry at continuous casting 1* 1 1 1 A. Schiefermüller , H. Preßlinger , S. Ilie , Ch. Fürst , G. Xia 1 voestalpine Stahl Linz GmbH * Corresponding author, voestalpine-Str. 3, A-4020 Linz, Austria, email: andreas.schiefermueller@ Abstract. voestalpine Stahl Linz upgraded in the LD3, caster no. 5 in order to produce 355 mm thick and 1600 mm wide slabs. The caster with a radius of 10 m, initially designed to produce a maximum of 285 mm thick slab is a bow- type with straight mould and liquid core bending and straightening. The main problem to this caster type at 355 mm thickness is the slab geometry. Due to bending the slab corner are deformed and small hot cracks can appear near to the slab surface. Using ABAQUS software a FEM 3D-Model was developed in order to simulate the deformation of slab during casting, between mould level and begin of caster bow. The thermo-mechanical model, couplet with viscoelastic materials law calculates the tensions and strains in the solidified shell during casting. A good agreement between calculated tensions and strains distribution respectively the appearance of small hot cracks was observed. Also the geometry of slab measured on sample is comparable with the results of FEM computation. Using the results of computation the geometry of slab can be improved by means of mould taper optimisation and intensively cooling of narrow face below the mould. Keywords continuous casting, thick slabs, FEM modelling, slab geometry. 1. Introduction Due to this deformation small hot cracks can appear