Thermomechanical Modeling of Beam Blank Casting

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND PREVIOUS WORK The continuous casting of “near-net-shape ” cross sections called “beam blanks ” or “dog-bones ” has been an efficient commercial process to manufacture long steel products such as I-beams since the first beam-blank caster was installed at Algoma Steel (Sault Ste. Marie, Canada) over three decades ago. Its economic advantages over conventional bloom casting are due to higher productivity,