• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.321-327
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• 2003

연속주조 프로세스는 고온의 액체 용강을 고체 금속으로 만드는 프로세스로서, 스트랜드 구동롤의 역할은 운전자가 설정한 주조 속도 제어 패턴에 따라 정확하게 주편을 인발하는 것이다. 기존의 스트랜드 구동롤의 제어는 주조 속도만을 제어하였으나 전동기 드라이버 세팅의 부정확성 및 변동, 연속적인 주조에 의한 구동롤의 마모 및 변형에 의한 롤 직경의 변경, 주조 중 주편 벌징량의 변동 등의 요인에 의해 주조 중 주편을 인발하는 데 소요되는 전체 인발력이 각 구동롤에 적절하게 분배되지 않아 주편 코너부에 수평 크랙을 발생시켜 주조 속도를 증가하는데 있어서 결정적인 장애요인이었다. 본 논문에서는 스트랜드 구동롤에 인가되는 인발력 분포와 주편 품질과의 상관 관계를 도출하고 주조 중에 연속적으로 인발력을 분배할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 인발력 분배 알고리즘은 각 구동롤 전동기의 절대적인 토크를 제어하는 것이 아니라, 상위제어기에서 결정한 인발력 분배 비율에 따라 각 구동롤 전동기의 토크분 전류를 상호 비교하여 속도 설정치를 조정함으로써 이루어진다. 그리고 인발력 분배 알고리즘의 동작 확인을 위해 광양제척소 1연주공장 4연주기에 적용하여 양호한 결과를 확인하였다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2004

In the steel making industries, the continuous casting process has been applied to the number of company because of its economical benefit. Casting rolls are utilized for frictional drive and transport of solidifying slap. Dimensional tolerances, mechanical stability and surface condition of the cast roll can affect both the surface and internal quality of the product being cast. To overcome these problems, the industry is accelerating on the rate of technology improvements. Samples were overlaid on the S45C steel by submerged arc welding process. And the hardness, wear, electrochemical corrosion and oxidation tests were carried out. Test results were that all these materials were satisfying basic requirements of caster rolls. By these results, the addition of 0.1%Nb and 0.15%V increase mechanical properties and tempering resistance by its superior carbide forming characteristics in low carbon $12{\sim}13%Cr$ martensitic stainless steels.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.117-128
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• 1997

Effects of dam and weir on the fluid flow and behavior of inclusions in the continuous casting tundish have been studied using the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) technique. Inclusions affecting the quality of steel products have been considered to be passive: the fluid flow has been obtained for unstaggered grid points defined on body-fitted generalized cuvilinear coordinates with no attention on inclusions, and the spatial propagation of inclusions has been determined by using the flow field data. The result show that the dam and weir direct the flow to the free surface and increase the residence time of inclusions significantly, and thereby that inclusions have much more chance to be floated to the free surface of the tundish where it is eliminated. It is also found that they offer more margin on the geometric design of exit nozzles connected to moulds. This finding is particularly important for twin casting operations where the quality of steel products from the two moulds be kept uniformly.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.2010-2018
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• 2003

Although continuous casting process has highly developed, there still remain many problems to be considered. Specifically, two vortex flows resulting from impingement against narrow walls make a flow field unstable in a mold, and it is directly related to internal and external defects of steel products. To cope with this instability, EMBR (Electromagnetic Brake Ruler) technique has been lately studied for the stability of molten steel flow, and it is revealed that molten steel flow in a mold can be controlled with applied magnetic field. However, it is still difficult to clarify flow pattern in an EMBR caster due to complex correlations among variables such as geometric factors, casting conditions, and the place and the intensity of charged magnetic field. In the present study, flow field in a mold is focused with different conditions of electromagnetic effect. To accurately analyze the case, three dimensional low Reynolds turbulent model and appropriate boundary conditions are chosen. To evaluate the electromagnetic effect in molten steel flow, dimensionless numbers are employed. The results show that the location and the intensity of the applied magnetic field significantly influence the flow pattern. Both impingement and internal flow pattern are changed remarkably with the change of the location of applied magnetic field. It turns out that an insufficient magnetic force yields adverse effect like channeling, and rather lowers the quality of steel product.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.1650-1660
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• 2000

Continuous casting process has been adopted increasingly in recent years to save both energy and labor. It has experienced a rapid development in the production of semi-finished steel products, rep lacing the conventional route of ingot casting and rolling. In order to achieve this merit, however, more studies about the mechanism between roll and slab are needed. In this paper, a dynamic bulging in steel cast slabs was simulated by considering the solidification and heat transfer. This study is to prevent internal cracks of a slab in a bending and unbending zone. The value of moving strand shell bulging between two supporting rollers under the ferrostatic pressure and slab-self weight has been calculated in terms of creep and elasto-plasticity. The strain and strain rate distributions in solidified shell undergoing a series of bulging are calculated with working boundary conditions.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.532-539
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• 1993

The effect of casting variables for making pure Al and Al-5wt%Si alloy rods free from any surface and inside defects was studied by adopting the horizontal continuous casting method with heated mold. The rods were cast under the casting conditions such as the mold temperature of $670{\sim}690^{\circ}C$, water flow rate of $0.2{\sim}0.6{\ell}/min$, and rod diameter of $4{\sim}8mm$, when the melt temperature and mold to cooler distance was fixed at $700^{\circ}C$ and 20mm, respectively. The results represented that the casting speed for good quality rod increased as the water flow rate increased, whereas, the casting speed decreased as the rod diameter or mold temperature increased. The statistical analysis of $2^3$ factorial design was also applied and the results represented that the averaged optimum casting speed for pure Al(302mm/min) was higher than that of Al-5wt%Si alloy(273mm/min) resulting from the difference of superheat applied. The effect of rod diameter on the optimum casting speed was the highest for pure Al as well as Al-5wt%Si alloy. The effect of water flow rate and mold temperature on the optimum casting speed was in decreasing order.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.252-257
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• 1997

The 8 mm dia: Sn-38%Pb eutectic alloy rods were produced by use of the horizontal continuous casting process with the heated mold and chill cast process. The cast rods were rolled into 2.0${\sim}$0.5 mm thick plates and structural and mechanical properties were examined. The results revealed that the plates produced by the continuous casting process with the heated mold show much higher superplasticity at ambient temperature (1550% elongation at 0.5mm thick plate and 0.5mm/min strain rate) than the plates procuced by chill cast process (630% elongation). Such a high superplasticity of the continuous cast plates is due to the high-quality plates free from any inside and surface defects with fine and uniform distribution of eutectic phases.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1999

This paper gives a simulation study of a new fuzzy logic control(FLC) approach for the mold level control in continuous casting processes. The proposed FLC is PID type hybridizing the conventional fuzzy PI control and Fuzzy PD control with a simplified design scheme. It is shown that, compared with the conventional control, this new control strategy can achieve superior performance for steady-state response and is more robust against process parameter variations and disturbances.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.464-470
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• 1994

The horizontal continuous casting method with the heated mold was applied to study the solidification structures of the pure Al and Al-0.5wt%Si and Al-1.0wt%Si alloy rods. The results could be summarized as follows: 1. The S/L interface structures of pure Al represented the hexagonal cells at the casting speed of 590 and 350mm/min, respectively. However, the hexagonal cells became irregular as the casting speed and(or) Si amount increased. 2. The striation increased as the Si amount and casting speed increased and was found to result from the occurrence of growth twin crystals by XRD analysis. 3. The striation did not affect the mechanical and electrical property of the drawn wire from the casted rod. This means the striation is not a serious defect which has to consider in the production of micro-sized fine wire in the drawing process.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 1981

평판 강괴를 연속적으로 주조할 경우에 초기주조 상태에서 Mold 내부의 Support bar 및 용강자중, 주조속도, 용강두께, 이를 지지하는 제어 Roller, 유압기구, 구동 Motor, 그리고 주조조직의 응고 등이 용강의 인발력을 유도하는 Pinch Roller와의 사이에서 동력학적 부평형을 일으켜 Slip 현상을 초래하므로 본 논문에서는 이상의 제요인들을 근거로 Slip 현상을 규명하는 식을 유도하고 강괴의 주조속도, 비중량, 두께의 변화에 대한 Slip Force 거동을 규명하였다. 그 결과 1. 본 논문의 해석식에 의하여 평판강괴 연속주조용 Pinch Roller의 적정압을 설계할 수 있다. 2. 비중량은 순수히 자중만 증가시키는 요인이며 Slip Force는 주조속도변화에 대해서 포물선적으로 증가한다. 3. 주조두께 및 비중량의 변화에 대한 Slip Force는 이에 비례하여 증가하나 특히 두께의 값이 소폭보다 대폭에서 그 변화 값이 크게 나타났다.