Continuous casting

Highlights

• The iron alloy database (IAD) was developed further to provide data for solidification calculations.
• Phenomena-based quality indices were proposed for predicting the onset of defects in slabs

Selected publications

• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, “Application of the IDS solidification and microstructure tool for quality prediction in continuous casting of steel with novel phenomenological quality criteria,” Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Continuous Casting, Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, Bari, Italy, 2021.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, A. Laukka, J. Miettinen, J. Norrena, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, T. Fabritius, and E. Piipponen, “Online 3D heat transfer and solidification/microstructure models and their capabilities for simulation of continuous casting of steel and quality prediction,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (M. Wu, ed.), The Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials, Vienna, Austria, pp. 413–421, 2021.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Carbon-containing thermodynamic descriptions of the Fe–Cr–Cu–Mo–Ni–C system for modeling the solidification of steels. No. 787 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2021. 214 pp.
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• J. Miettinen, S. Koskenniska, V.-V. Visuri, M. Somani, T. Fabritius, and J. Kömi, “Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Microstructure Data for Modeling Solidification of Fe-Al-Mn-Si-C Alloys,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 2946-2962, 2020.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Chromium-, copper-, molybdenum- , and nickel-containing thermodynamic descriptions of the Fe–Al–Cr–Cu– Mn–Mo–Ni–Si system for modeling the solidification of steels. No. 758 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2020. 404 pp.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, “Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 9: Fe–B–Cu,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 297-304, 2021.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, “Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 8: Fe–B–Mo, with extension to quaternary Fe–B–Cr–Mo system,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 281-295, 2021.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, M. C. Somani, S. Koskenniska, and T. Fabritius, “New Phenomenological Quality Criteria for Continuous Casting of Steel Based on Solidification and Microstructure Tool IDS,” Ironmaking and Steelmaking, forthcoming.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, and G. Vassilev, “Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 7: Fe–B–C,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 697–707, 2020.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, “Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 6: Fe–B–Ti,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1249–1255, 2019.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, “Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 5: Fe–B–Si,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1239–1248, 2019
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, “Thermodynamic Description of Ternary Fe-B-X Systems. Part 4: Fe-B-V,” Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 451–456, 2019.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, J. Laine, R. Vesanen, I. Rentola, J. Moilanen, V.-V. Visuri, E.-P. Heikkinen, and A. Jokilaakso, “Online Modelling of Heat Transfer, Solidification and Microstructure in Continuous Casting of Steel,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 529, 2019. 012051.
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• J. Miettinen, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, “Advances in Modeling of Steel Solidification with IDS,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 529, 2019. 012063.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Thermodynamic description of the Fe–Al–Mn–Si–C system for modelling solidification of steels. No. 704 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2019.
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Theses instructed

• J. Luomanen, "Application of on-line casting simulator for quality control of stainless steel", Master´s thesis, University of Oulu, 2017.
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