TY - JOUR

T1 - Novel strategy to model deformation-induced strand contraction/dilatation during mechanical reduction

AU - Guan, Rui

AU - Rodrigues, Christian M.G.

AU - Ji, Cheng

AU - Zhu, Miaoyong

AU - Li, Shengli

AU - Wu, Menghuai

AU - Kharicha, Abdellah

AU - Vakhrushev, Alexander

AU - Ludwig, Andreas

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors

PY - 2023/2

Y1 - 2023/2

N2 - When a strand is subjected to rolling and pressing during mechanical reduction (MR), deformation-induced strand contraction or dilatation can occur. A novel modeling strategy has been designed to account for this mechanism in a two-phase Eulerian–Eulerian volume-average model with a fixed geometry. The strategy is based on the following ideas: (1) during MR, the pressing force from the rolls to the solidifying strand leads to the compression of the viscoplastic network that causes melt to be squeezed out of that region; (2) if the pressing is strong enough to cause the melt to penetrate the surrounding solid shell, the strand deflects outwards (the dilatation state); (3) as the melt flow weakens and the following pair of rolls approaches, the “expanded” strand structure is forced to go back to its original form (the contraction state). Numerically, special Robin type boundary conditions have been imposed on the strand surface to comply with the above description while maintaining a fixed domain. Strand deflection has been estimated and correlates well with the mush deformation intensity and solidification evolution during the casting process. Macrosegregation is also discussed based on the strand deflection and deformation parameters.

AB - When a strand is subjected to rolling and pressing during mechanical reduction (MR), deformation-induced strand contraction or dilatation can occur. A novel modeling strategy has been designed to account for this mechanism in a two-phase Eulerian–Eulerian volume-average model with a fixed geometry. The strategy is based on the following ideas: (1) during MR, the pressing force from the rolls to the solidifying strand leads to the compression of the viscoplastic network that causes melt to be squeezed out of that region; (2) if the pressing is strong enough to cause the melt to penetrate the surrounding solid shell, the strand deflects outwards (the dilatation state); (3) as the melt flow weakens and the following pair of rolls approaches, the “expanded” strand structure is forced to go back to its original form (the contraction state). Numerically, special Robin type boundary conditions have been imposed on the strand surface to comply with the above description while maintaining a fixed domain. Strand deflection has been estimated and correlates well with the mush deformation intensity and solidification evolution during the casting process. Macrosegregation is also discussed based on the strand deflection and deformation parameters.

KW - Contraction/dilatation

KW - Macrosegregation

KW - Solid deformation

KW - Two-phase

KW - Viscoplastic model

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U2 - 10.1016/j.apm.2022.10.025

DO - 10.1016/j.apm.2022.10.025

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85140465264

VL - 114.2023

SP - 770

EP - 784

JO - Applied Mathematical Modelling

JF - Applied Mathematical Modelling

SN - 0307-904X

IS - February

ER -