Thermal Behavior Analysis in Continuous Bloom Casting Mold

Continuous casting machine has been experienced a rapid development to increase productivity with high casting speed and to meet consumer's strict demands for high quality. However, because most of defects and cracks are initially formed in mold and grown into surface cracks during the post process, more specific and clear investigations upon heat transfer mechanism between mold and solidified shell are necessarily needed. In this study heat transfer coefficients which shows the characteristic of heat transfer mechanism are calculated with temperatures measured in bloom mold using optimal algorithm, and thermal analysis are investigated using the calculated heat transfer coefficients. Finally uniformity of solidified shell is investigated for high carbon steel, 0.187%C from thermal analysis.

Bloom용 연속주조 몰드의 열거동 해석