Introduction
About the Consortium
The Continuous Casting Consortium (CCC) is a cooperative research program between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the steel industry, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Steel Processing
From raw materials to finished steel: the full production chain including primary steelmaking, secondary metallurgy, casting, and rolling.
Continuous Casting
How molten steel is solidified into slabs, blooms, and billets: machine types, process parameters, and common defects.
Process Overview
Detailed description of each component in the casting system: ladle, tundish, SEN, mold, secondary cooling, and withdrawal.
Mold Region Phenomena
The critical physics in the mold: turbulent flow, shell solidification, meniscus behavior, mold flux, and electromagnetic effects.