Nonmetallic Inclusion in the Large Steel Ingot Casting Process

대형강괴 주조공정 중 비금속개재물 저감연구

  • 남궁정 (포항산업과학연구원, 부품신소재연구센터) ;
  • 김용찬 (포항산업과학연구원, 부품신소재연구센터) ;
  • 김문철 (포항산업과학연구원, 부품신소재연구센터) ;
  • 오상훈 (포스코특수강, 기술연구소) ;
  • 김남수 (포스코특수강, 기술연구소)
  • Published : 2008.05.08

Abstract

Inclusions in forged large steel ingots of plan carbon steel and tool steel are investigated using optical microscop observation and WDX analysis. The large nonmetallic inclusions which is over $30\sim300{\mu}m$ in their diameter were observed in the samples that has been no good on a nondestructive test. The most of the inclusions were consist of some kind of oxides, ${Al_2}{O_3}$, $SiO_2$, CaO, MgO in forms of particles and glassy with an iron particles. The experimental large steel ingot was cast with a pouring temperature which is about ten centigrade higher than the field standard. The inclusions were observed in the test ingot are the smaller than that was in a usual forged steel ingot and is spherical shape with a glassy agglomerated ${Al_2}{O_3}-SiO_2-CaO-MgO$ particle. The pouring temperature is affected on removing the nonmetallic inclusions during the solidification by a floating mechanism.

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