Learn
Educational material on steel processing, continuous casting machines, and the physics of the mold region.
The Learn section is a short technical primer on continuous casting of steel. It begins with the place of casting in modern steel processing, then moves into the mechanics of a continuous casting machine, a component-level process overview, and a detailed treatment of the thermally and fluid-dynamically complex mold region where solidification begins.
A troubleshooting and defects guide is planned for a future phase of this site. Until then, the Research section links to the peer-reviewed publications in which specific defect phenomena and their mitigation are analyzed in depth.
Steel Processing
From raw materials to finished steel: primary steelmaking, secondary metallurgy, casting, and rolling.
Read more →Continuous Casting
How molten steel is solidified into slabs, blooms, and billets, plus common defects and key process parameters.
Read more →Process Overview
The casting system component-by-component: ladle, tundish, SEN, mold, secondary cooling, and withdrawal.
Read more →Mold Region
Turbulent flow, shell solidification, meniscus behavior, mold flux, and electromagnetic effects in the mold.
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