Research progress on the crack and segregation prediction of continuous casting strand
ZOU Lei-lei1, HUANG Jun-xiong1, LI Quan-hui1,2, ZHANG Jiang-shan1, LIU Qing1
1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China; 2. Research Institute, Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210035, Jiangsu, China
Abstract:Accurately predicting the defects such as cracks and center segregation of continuous casting strand and making a choice between offline cleaning and hot delivery are of great significance to stabilize the continuous casting production and improve the production quality. However, there are many factors affecting the quality of continuous casting strand in actual production. There are unpredictable disturbances in continuous casting production, and there is strong nonlinearity and coupling between production parameters, which makes the accurate prediction of the defects such as crack and central segregation of continuous casting strand very challenging. With the development of the continuous casting automation and computer technology, artificial intelligence has been paid more and more attention, among which machine learning has been gradually applied in the continuous casting production because of its strong nonlinear approximation ability. The research progress of the strand quality prediction at home and abroad are summarized from the aspects of the machine learning and expert system, and the advantages and disadvantages of various methods are analyzed and compared. Meanwhile, the quality prediction of continuous casting strand is prospected.
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