About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Aluminum Alloys: Development and Manufacturing
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| Presentation Title |
A comprehensive mathematical model for the solidification of aluminum alloys strips produced via the Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC) process |
| Author(s) |
Daniel Ricardo Gonzalez Morales, Mihaiela Minea Isac, Roderick Ian Lawrence Guthrie |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Daniel Ricardo Gonzalez Morales |
| Abstract Scope |
Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC) is an alternative to traditional slab casting processes, for producing commercial aluminum alloy sheet material. The process has been applied at the pilot-scale, to successfully produce aluminum and steel alloy sheet, 200-250 mm wide. In the present work, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS-Fluent v. 19.0 was used to generate a 3D transient solidification model, to study the effect of the “free fall” distance on the solidification behaviour of commercial aluminum alloys (AA2024, AA5182 and AA6111, AA7068) during the production of 250 mm wide strip. The model was used to test different belt materials, superheats and belt speeds to assess the best combination of parameters to promote optimal flow behaviour before solidification, for the four different alloy systems. Predicted heat fluxes, heat transfer coefficients and temperature contours are extrapolated to industrial HSBC casters for the four different alloy systems. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Light Metals |
| Keywords |
Solidification, Other, |