Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
  • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
  • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
  • B22D11/12—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
  • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
  • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
  • B22D11/12—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ
  • B22D11/1206—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ for plastic shaping of strands

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• the invention relates to a process for the continuous casting of blocks, slabs or thin slabs in a continuous casting installation which has, under a mold, strand guide segments which can be set at a mutual distance from one another, for example with pairs of rollers which can be acted upon by position or position-controlled hydraulic cylinders, the casting strand by conical placement of at least one of its strand guide segments is reduced in thickness in a soft reduction section reaching to the top of the swamp.
• the invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the method.
• the soft reduction process (SR process) is used to reduce the core porosity and increase the brake.
• the soft reduction is preferably carried out in the directional driver area.
• a prerequisite for an improvement in the internal structure quality is that the final solidification of the strand takes place in the conically adjusted soft reduction (SR section).
• SR section conically adjusted soft reduction
• the conical roller adjustment of the strand guide segments takes place either by means of a fixed adjustment by means of hydraulic cylinders and spacers, or by means of flexible adjustment, for example using position-controlled hydraulic cylinders.
• the so-called operating window of the continuous caster for example the adjustment of the casting speed and other casting parameters, the intensity of the spray cooling or the steel quality, is predetermined by the number of SR roller pairs and the type of employment. As the number of rolls increases, the operating window can be enlarged. However, this increase is disproportionate to the additional costs it causes. Furthermore, it is only possible to influence the top of the sump by spray cooling to a limited extent.
• the strand runs through a soft reduction section, at the entry of which it has not yet solidified, but at the end of which it should be solidified, for which purpose.
• the casting speed represents an essential operating parameter.
• a thickness reduction for example for thin slabs, of between 0.5 and 3 mm per meter of casting length is carried out.
• the pairs of rollers of individual segments in the soft reduction section are adjusted more closely beyond the shrinkage behavior of the strand, in order to achieve an improvement in the inner strand quality in the area of residual solidification by structural compression.
• EP 0 834 364 A1 describes a method and a device for high-speed continuous casting plants with a strand thickness reduction during solidification, the strand cross-section being linearly reduced over a minimum length of the strand guide directly under the mold after the so-called casting rolling, followed by a further strand -Reduction over the remaining strand guidance, the "soft reduction", until just before the final solidification or bottom tip.
• This procedural measure prescribes the reduction of the strand cross section so that a critical deformation of the strand shell is not exceeded, taking into account the high casting speed and steel quality.
• EP 0 177 796 B1 discloses a method for guiding and straightening a casting strand in the drawing and discharge area of a continuous sheet casting installation, wherein oppositely arranged rollers are held at a distance which can be adapted to the casting method by a spring force against the ferrous pressure of the casting strand. A cast strand area of increased strength is traced away and when it passes between opposing rollers the respective spring force is reduced by a low counterforce.
• the slabs or blocks produced in continuous casting plants in accordance with the aforementioned documents serve as the starting material for rolling mill products for producing sheets or strips.
• the object of the invention is to achieve an adaptation or enlargement of the operating window of a continuous casting installation to changing casting parameters and to obtain a comparatively uniform structure in the cast strand by influencing the bottom tip position.
• the proposed reduction in thickness of the casting strand with a liquid core is used to set the format dimension such that the bottom of the sump is largely independent of the casting parameters in a section of the soft reduction section which leads to the required improvement of the internal quality of the casting strand leads.
• the format thickness is reduced in such a way that the position of the swamp tip in the SR section is kept practically constant. So that's in a big one Casting speed range with a low level of mechanical engineering ensures a consistently good internal quality of the casting strand.
• the size reduction of the strand with a liquid core can be set so that regardless of the steel quality, the intensity of the spray cooling and the casting speed, the position of the sump tip in the SR section is kept approximately constant.
• An embodiment of the method according to the invention further provides that the number of roller pairs and their more or less close mutual adjustment in the region of the liquid core of the strand allows the casting process to be flexibly adapted to the casting speed.
• the method provides that the arrangement and / or adjustment of the rolls for the reduction in thickness in the area of the liquid core of the casting strand are determined in accordance with the casting cross section or format cross section of the casting strand.
• the method according to the invention provides that the thickness reduction is carried out directly in front of the SR section in the directional driver.
• a continuous caster for carrying out the method according to the invention is designed on the device side such that the pairs of rollers for reducing the thickness of the casting strand 5 with a liquid core are arranged at different positions within and / or behind the strand support, but in front of the SR section.
• FIG. 1 shows in a purely schematic representation a strand guide below a mold with an embodiment according to the invention and with a soft reduction section SR.
• a first strand guide segment 2.1 for parallel strand guidance is located below the mold.
• the sketch of the strand 5 below the melt inlet 6 into the mold 1 shows a first approach of a strand shell 8 that is being formed.
• the strand 5 is subjected to a format reduction in the region of its liquid core 7 between the mold 1 and the soft reduction section SR by at least one pair of rollers 4, 4 '.
• the format reduction by the roller pairs 4, 4 ' is followed by a strand guide segment 2.2 for parallel strand guidance of the casting strand 5.
• the roller pairs 4, 4' are each away from or position-controlled hydraulic cylinders, not shown, so that they overcome the hydrostatic pressures of the melt 8 and thereby local size reduction or thickness reduction in the strand 5 z.
• Another strand guide segment 2.3 for parallel strand guidance is arranged in the casting direction below the soft reduction section.
• the number and pitch of the roller pairs 4, 4 'in the region of the liquid core 7 of the casting strand 5 allow the casting process to be flexibly adapted to the casting speed or a change thereof.
• the format dimension is always set such that the sump tip 9 is largely independent of the aforementioned casting parameters in a section of the SR section which corresponds to the required Improvements in the internal quality of the casting strand leads.
• the format thickness is reduced so that the position of the sump tip 9 in the SR section is kept practically constant. This ensures a consistently good internal quality of the cast product in a large casting speed range with little mechanical expenditure.

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