Continuous Casting Practices for Steel: Past, Present and Future MDPI
Continuous casting practices for steelmaking have been constantly evolving ever since the early 1930s, when Junghans was first researching ways to pour liquid steel into an openbottomed, watercooled mold, to withdraw the partially solidified steel out of it, continuously, in the form of a round or square billet or slab [1,2].He envisioned that once these continuously cast shapes had become ...