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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2021/2022

Steel Casting and Crystallization

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-3006/03
Abbreviation LiaKrO
Course title Steel Casting and Crystallization
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Karel Michalek, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

1. Equipment of cast houses. Classification of steels by degree of deoxidation, killed steel, semi- killed steel and rimming steel.
2. Refractory materials used at casting of steel, material properties. Possibilities of evaluation of properties and resistance of refractory materials to molten metals and slags.
3. Casting of steels into ingot-moulds, top pouring, uphill casting. Behaviour of steel in a ladle.
4. Crystallisation of steel. Solidification of steel, regularities, solidification of the ingot crop end.
5. Structure of ingots made of killed and rimming steel.
6. Numerical simulation of ingot's solidification (utilization of ProCAST software - influence of various factors on the solidification process and segregations).
7. Micro-segregation, macro-segregation.
8. Ingots defects of killed and rimmed steel.
9. Casting of large ingots. Cleanness and quality of the ingots, defects. Process VIC (Vítkovice Ingot Casting).
10. Continuous casting of steel, division, benefits, disadvantages, economy.
11. Design of CCM equipment. Classification of CCM, vertical, horizontal.
12. Primary, secondary and tertiary cooling zone. Solidification of steel in mould, influencing factors.
13. Tundish metallurgy. Defects of continuously cast blanks.
14. Perspectives, new directions at casting of thin blanks.

Povinná literatura

[1] FLEMINGS, M.C.: Solidification Processing. 1st ed., McGraw-Hill, 1974, 364 p.
[2] IRVING, W.R.: Continuous Casting of Steel. Institute of Materials, 1993, 207 p.

Doporučená literatura

[1] YOGESHWAR, S., TOSHIHIKO, E. Tundish Technology for Clean Steel Production. World Scientific, 2007, 313 p. ISBN 9812706216.