Mold and Tundish Metallurgy
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 33213
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mold heat transfer and lubrication, structure of molten silicate slags, thermos-physical properties of slags, computational thermodynamics, controlling solidification structure using oxide inoculants, inclusion evolution during continuous casting and additive manufacturing, castability for high aluminum AHSS (advanced high-strength steels)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Considerable effort has been made on tundish and mold over the past few decades, which has yielded the present prosperity of the continuous casting process in terms of productivity and quality. Furthermore, in order to reply to the growing market demand for next-generation steel products such as AHSS (advanced high-strength steel) with super cleanness, we believe now is the best time to collect and review cutting edge technologies on tundish and mold.
This Special Issue will deal with the wide range of the latest advances in the fields of mold and tundish metallurgy, focusing on but not limited to the following:
- Improving steel cleanness by means of fluid flow controlling and slag optimization;
- Understanding and controlling the evolution of inclusions in tundish and mold;
- Decreasing nozzle clogging due to the deoxidizing products;
- The design of slags and fluxes for AHSS casting (especially high Al-containing steel grades);
- Optimizing the solidification structure of the AHSS cast;
- Mold heat transfer in a continuous casting mold.
Prof. Dr. Jung-Wook Cho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Continuous casting
- AHSS (advanced high-strength steel)
- Mold flux
- Tundish powder
- Inclusion
- Fluid flow
- Nozzle clogging
- Solidification structure.
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