Abstract
To improve the quality of continuously cast carbon steels, the characteristics of the hot ductility were studied via in-situ melted and solidified tensile testing method. Special emphases were placed on the effect of C and P on the hot ductility in the temperature range between melting temperature and 700°C.It was found that zero strength temperature (ZSTc) and zero ductility temperature (ZDTc) have a linear relationship with the equilibrium solidus temperature in Fe-C binary alloys ranging from 0.003 to 1.6% C and does not have the singularity between 0.1 to 0.2% C content. The embrittlement due to P exists only in the carbon steels having C content higher than 0.25%, which are subjected to the melting thermal history. This embrittlement is caused by the segregation of P along the austenite grain boundary.Mild cooling in the secondary cooling stage is very effective to diminish the embrittlement resulting in producing defect free cast slabs.
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