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Twin-roll casting has been useful in production of thin strips of metals. Especially, the process of horizontal twin-roll casting is often used for magnesium and aluminum alloys, which are lighter in weight and smaller in specific heat as well as latent heat in comparison to steel. In the present investigation, where magnesium alloy AZ31 was targeted, asymmetric behavior of the melt flow due to the gravity was examined in terms of contact length and pressure, and the nozzle for melt ejection was modified for its shape and location. Variations of the melt flow including vortexes were investigated in consideration of heterogeneous nucleation and uniform microstructure. The melt flow was further examined in the perspective of possible randomness of the grain orientation through thickness under differential speeds of rolls.
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Park, JJ. (2014). Finite-Element Analysis of Melt Flow in Horizontal Twin-Roll Casting of Magnesium Alloy AZ31. In: Alderman, M., Manuel, M.V., Hort, N., Neelameggham, N.R. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48231-6_35
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