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Solidified shell bulging is supposed to be the main reason for slab center segregation, while the influence of thermal shrinkage rarely has been considered. In this article, a thermal shrinkage model coupled with the multiphase solidification model is developed to investigate the effect of the thermal shrinkage, solidification shrinkage, grain sedimentation, and thermal flow on solute transport in the continuous casting slab. In this model, the initial equiaxed grains contract freely with the temperature decrease, while the coherent equiaxed grains and columnar phase move directionally toward the slab surface. The results demonstrate that the center positive segregation accompanied by negative segregation in the periphery zone is mainly caused by thermal shrinkage. During the solidification process, liquid phase first transports toward the slab surface to compensate for thermal shrinkage, which is similar to the case considering solidification shrinkage, and then it moves opposite to the slab center near the solidification end. It is attributed to the sharp decrease of center temperature and the intensive contract of solid phase, which cause the enriched liquid to be squeezed out. With the effect of grain sedimentation and thermal flow, the negative segregation at the external arc side (zone A1) and the positive segregation near the columnar-to-equiaxed transition at the inner arc side (position B1) come into being. Besides, it is found that the grain sedimentation and thermal flow only influence solute transport before equiaxed grains impinge with each other, while the solidification and thermal shrinkage still affect solute redistribution in the later stage.
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The authors sincerely acknowledge the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB0300105), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1560208 and 51674072), and Outstanding Talent Cultivation Project of Liaoning Province (Grant No. 2014029101).
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Jiang, D., Wang, W., Luo, S. et al. Mechanism of Macrosegregation Formation in Continuous Casting Slab: A Numerical Simulation Study. Metall Mater Trans B 48, 3120–3131 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-017-1104-8
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