A technique has been developed for computer prediction of the soft-rolling-related reduction in the axial chemical inhomogeneity of a continuous-cast steel billet. The resulting computer software enables the amount of axial chemical inhomogeneity in continuous-cast billets to be explored as a function of the continuous-casting parameters and the physical properties of the steel. Calculations performed for steel with two different initial carbon contents (0.09% and 0.6%) indicated that the proposed method for calculating the effects of soft reduction predicts a substantial (50–55%) reduction in the axial chemical inhomogeneity of continuous-cast billets.
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 2, pp. 60–64, February, 2009.
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Samoilovich, Y.A. Effect of soft reduction on the structure of continuously-cast slabs. Metallurgist 53, 98–104 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-009-9126-3
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