Modeling of aluminum alloys semi-continuous casting process for the development of production large-sized flat ingots technology
摘要
This article describes how a laboratory-scale semi-continuous casting unit for aluminum alloys, a 50-fold scale physical model of a “Wagstaff“ industrial unit, used to verify the results of computer modeling. This is a requirement for the production of large-size flat ingots from alloy 1580 with a reduced scandium content. It is shown that the structure and mechanical properties of sheet semi-finished products obtained by rolling of workpieces from experimental and industrial large-size ingots were virtually identical, confirming the validity of the ingot casting conditions obtained through computer modeling and verification of the results on the laboratory-scale semi-continuous casting unit. An industrial experiment confirmed the feasibility of implementing an approach in which the industrial implementation of semi-continuous casting technology for large-size flat ingots from aluminum alloys should be preceded by computer modeling followed by verification of its results on a physical model of the semi-continuous casting unit.