Horizontal single belt casting of ferrous and non-ferrous metals

水平单带铸造（HSBC）工艺是一种新的选择，可用于钢板和铝带的近净形铸造 **。它提供了无摩擦，无约束 ** 凝固的水平板坯或带材的合金，其次是在线轧制到最终的规格板。在我们的 **Stinson实验室，麦吉尔金属加工中心的熔化和铸造设备已经 ** 搬迁，一个中试规模的汇丰连铸机正在成功地生产AA 6111铝合金带材。现在，它正在 ** 升级，以铸造新等级的高强度，高韧性钢（HSHD）。这些都在全球范围内进行深入研究。由于这些新牌号的HSHD钢代表了钢铁制造商的新时代，其强度至少是常规钢的 ** 倍，在失效前具有更大的延展性（~+65-100%），因此它们可以用作 ** 轻型汽车的薄截面，和/或显著增强关键部件。我们将在汇丰机器上对这两种金属进行并行工作，将我们在铸造铝合金方面获得的专业知识扩展到同等的钢合金系统。我们将继续进行温度-时间测量，对液态金属和合金与冷却次表面初始接触的 ** 前20-30毫秒进行建模。此 ** 决定了带材的底面质量。同样，我们打算确定各种 ** 气体气氛对正在形成的薄带上表面的表面质量的影响，并测量正在生产的HSHD钢、5XXX和6XXX系列铝合金的 ** 各种性能和特性。为了优化水冷带上的熔体铸造，以0.5-1.5 m/s的速度移动，我们打算使用计算流体动力学对各种液态金属输送系统进行数学建模，并将预测结果与我们的实验铸造工作进行比较。为了提高获得理想铸坯组织和性能所需的金属等速送料，我们将探索设计电磁制动的可能性，以确保所有液态金属以带速移动。最后，我们打算开发一个完全预测模型 ** 的汇丰系统的铝和钢熔体，可用于设计目的，并按比例放大。

The Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC) process is a new option available for the Near-Net Shape Casting**of steel and aluminium strips for sheet making operations. It provides for the friction-free, unconstrained**solidification of a horizontal slab or strip of alloy, followed by in-line rolling down to final gauge sheet. At our**Stinson Laboratories where the McGill Metals Processing Centre melting and casting equipment have been**re-located, a pilot-scale HSBC caster is successfully producing AA6111 aluminium alloy strips. It is now being**upgraded to cast new grades of High Strength, High Ductility Steels (HSHD). These are being intensively**researched, globally. As these new grades of HSHD steels represent a new era for steelmakers, being at least**twice the strength of regular steels, with much greater ductility prior to failure (~+65-100%), they can be used**as thinner sections to lightweight cars, and/or to significantly strengthen critical components. We will work in**parallel on the HSBC machine on these two metals, extending our expertise gained in casting aluminum alloys,**to equivalent steel alloy systems. We will continue with our temperature-time measurements, modelling the**first 20-30 milleseconds of initial contact of liquid metals and alloys with a cooling sub-surface. This**determines the bottom surface quality of the strip. Similarly, we intend to determine the effects of various**gaseous atmospheres on the surface quality of the upper surface of thin strips being formed, and to measure the**various properties and characteristics of the HSHD steels, 5XXX, and 6XXX series Al alloys being produced.**To optimize the melt casting on a water cooled belt, moving at 0.5-1.5 m/s, we intend to mathematically model**various liquid metal delivery systems, using computational fluid dynamics, and to compare predictions against**our experimental casting work. To enhance the iso-kinetic feeding of metal that is needed for obtaining an**ideal cast slab structure and properties, we will explore the possibility of designing electromagnetic braking to**ensure that all the liquid metal moves at the belt speed. Finally, we intend to develop a fully predictive model**of the HSBC system for aluminum and steel melts, that can be used for design purposes, and scale-up.