Learn

Educational material on steel processing, continuous casting machines, and the physics of the mold region.

The Learn section is a short technical primer on continuous casting of steel. It begins with a broad introduction and the place of casting in modern steel processing, then moves into the mechanics of a continuous casting machine, a component-level process overview, and a detailed treatment of the thermally and fluid-dynamically complex mold region where solidification begins.

A troubleshooting and defects guide is planned for a future phase of this site. Until then, the Research section links to the peer-reviewed publications in which specific defect phenomena and their mitigation are analyzed in depth.

Schematic flow from ladle through tundish and mold to the cut-to-length strand.

Introduction

An overview of the consortium and the continuous casting process it studies.

Steel Processing

From raw materials to finished steel: primary steelmaking, secondary metallurgy, casting, and rolling.

Continuous Casting

How molten steel is solidified into slabs, blooms, and billets, plus common defects and key process parameters.

Process Overview

The casting system component-by-component: ladle, tundish, SEN, mold, secondary cooling, and withdrawal.

Mold Region

Turbulent flow, shell solidification, meniscus behavior, mold flux, and electromagnetic effects in the mold.