TY - CONF

T1 - Industry-oriented sample preparation with an in- ductively heated laboratory continuous casting plant for aluminum alloys

AU - Weidinger, Andreas

AU - Samberger, Sebastian

AU - Schmid, Florian

AU - Stemper, Lukas

AU - Pogatscher, Stefan

PY - 2023/6/11

Y1 - 2023/6/11

N2 - The automotive industry demands a higher increase of scrap input during the production of aluminumalloys. Due to the composition of the alloys created it is becoming more complex for the industrynowadays. The variation of elemental content in the produced alloys has a significant effect on themechanical properties. Accordingly, it is of great interest to evaluate many possible combinations.The realization of a wide range of potential alloy configurations requires an optimized and fast samplepreparation through continuous casting on a laboratory scale close to the industrial. In this study, theinductively heated continuous casting plant “Indutherm VCC 3000” is evaluated in comparison withtwo established production strategies on a laboratory scale (100 g and 30 kg) and industrial alloyproduction. After casting the material is subjected to a cold and hot rolling step. Produced samplesare compared by using tensile testing and grain size measurements. The results show the high suita-bility of the continuous casting plant for lab-scale alloy production. In contrast to other laboratoryscale strategies examined, the investigated device shows the potential to produce industrial-compa-rable samples in a faster manner. In addition, this approach is easily adaptable due to the slab's flexi-bility in length.

AB - The automotive industry demands a higher increase of scrap input during the production of aluminumalloys. Due to the composition of the alloys created it is becoming more complex for the industrynowadays. The variation of elemental content in the produced alloys has a significant effect on themechanical properties. Accordingly, it is of great interest to evaluate many possible combinations.The realization of a wide range of potential alloy configurations requires an optimized and fast samplepreparation through continuous casting on a laboratory scale close to the industrial. In this study, theinductively heated continuous casting plant “Indutherm VCC 3000” is evaluated in comparison withtwo established production strategies on a laboratory scale (100 g and 30 kg) and industrial alloyproduction. After casting the material is subjected to a cold and hot rolling step. Produced samplesare compared by using tensile testing and grain size measurements. The results show the high suita-bility of the continuous casting plant for lab-scale alloy production. In contrast to other laboratoryscale strategies examined, the investigated device shows the potential to produce industrial-compa-rable samples in a faster manner. In addition, this approach is easily adaptable due to the slab's flexi-bility in length.

M3 - Paper

T2 - European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2023

Y2 - 11 June 2023 through 14 June 2023

ER -