Abstract
This work investigated the effect of the cooling condition on the deformation that was found for continuously cast stainless steel 304 slabs. The transient heat-transfer finite element analysis under various cooling conditions yielded temperature distributions within the slab, which were then used for subsequent calculations of the deformed shape. The asymmetric cooling condition in a cooling pit induced non-uniform and asymmetric thermal gradients with elapsed time. The non-zero final deflection and the reversal of curvature for the slab during cooling were attributed to the combined effect of asymmetric temperature profile and inelastic material property. Parametric studies revealed that a slab material of a low thermal conductivity or yield strength resulted in an increase for final deflection. The present analysis explained the physical cause of the deformation reasonably well.
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