2nd International Workshop
Surface quality of continuously cast products
Bergamo – Italy, 1-2 December 2022
Six years after the successful first conference on the topic, AIM, in cooperation with its sister society ASMET, organises once again a two-day event focused on the Surface Quality of continuously cast products.
The surface quality of ingots, billets, blooms and slabs is a particularly important issue in order to insure the required surface quality of final rolled and forged products. This aspect is becoming increasingly significant especially nowadays, when a lot of steelmakers are refocusing their activity on the search for better surface quality or new specialty steels requiring high quality surface features. All this lays on a table of new challenges faced by steelmaking industries, when energy efficiency and consequently lower environmental impact are concerned.
This international meeting aims at sharing the knowledge about the improvement of the surface quality of the continuously cast products and this scope will be achieved by clear expositions about:
• recent advances on the defect analysis;
• the root cause of the defects;
• innovative lubricating products;
• operations and maintenance;
• application of electromagnetic devices;
• AI applications, simulation and computing methods.
Topics
• Lubrication technology in continuous casting
• Mold fluxes
• Oil
• Defect sources
• Defect analysis
• Primary Cooling
• Secondary Cooling
• Mould design
• Electromagnetic equipment
• Corrective action for the surface improvement
• Billet and bloom casting
• Slab Casting
• Thin slab casting
The workshop will be performed through invited presentation and on the basis of the selection of the abstracts sent by authors interested in sharing their updated knowledge in order to increase the surface quality of the continuous cast semis.
The deadline for the abstract undergoing the selection is on July 15 n order to fulfil the final program.
Workshop Chairmen
Dr. PhD. Riccardo Carli - Prosimet, Italy and Prof. Christian Bernhard - University of Leoben
Organising Committee
Federica Bassani – AIM
Sabrina De Donato - AIM
Yvonne Dworak – ASMET
Gerhard Hackl - ASMET
Carlo Mapelli – Politecnico di Milano
Federico Mazzolari – AIM
Marta Verderi - AIM
Call for Papers
Prospective authors wishing to present are invited to submit a tentative title and an abstract of maximum 400 words (in English) to the Organising Secretariat (met@aimnet.it).
The abstract should provide sufficient information for a fair assessment.
Two ways to submit papers will be available:
• to fill in the online form
• to send the title and the abstract, together with the requested information (Name and Surname, Affiliation, Mailing Address, Phone, Fax and e-mail) by e-mail to: met@aimnet.it
Deadlines
Submission of abstracts 15 July 2022
Information on Acceptance 30 September 2022
Opening online registration 30 September 2022
Submission of pdf presentations 11 November 2022