Continuous casting

Highlights

• The iron alloy database (IAD) was developed further to provide data for solidification calculations.
• Phenomena-based quality indices were proposed for predicting the onset of defects in slabs
• A coupled workflow including heat transfer simulation, solification simulation and machine learning was developed for online prediction of defects in continuous casting of carbon steels.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

• J. Norrena, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, A. Bogdanoff, and T. Fabritius, “Phenomenological Prediction of Defect Formation in Continuous Casting of Steel Utilizing Fundamental Modeling and Machine Learning,” Steel Research International, vol. 97, no. 4, 2026
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• J. Ruokamo, R. Kallio, M. Cantaluppi, T. Alatarvas, V.-V. Visuri, E. Piipponen, and Q. Shu, “A Framework for Determining Mineralogy and Chemical Composition of Industrial Mold Powders,” Powder Metallurgy, vol. 476, 2026. 122410
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• N. Majoudi, T. Alatarvas, and V.-V. Visuri, “Prediction of Liquidus and Solidus Temperatures and Solidification Paths in Duplex Stainless Steels,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking, Czech Metallurgical Society, Třinec, Czech Republic, 2025
• J. Norrena, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, H. Tähtilä, and T. Fabritius, “Phenomenological framework for online quality prediction in continuous casting", Proceedings of the 11th European Continuous Casting Conference, Steel Institute VDEh, Essen, Germany, 2024.
• J. Ruokamo, T. Alatarvas, V.-V. Visuri, Q. Shu, and E. Piipponen, “On the Laboratory-scale Assessment of Mould Powders for High-speed Casting", Proceedings of the 11th European Continuous Casting Conference, Steel Institute VDEh, Essen, Germany, 2024.
• Q. Shu, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, J. Ruokamo, P. Sulasalmi, and T. Fabritius, “Calculation of Nonbridging oxygen per tetrahedron (NBO/T) of mould fluxes from 29Si Nuclear magnetic resonance and its application in property estimation", Proceedings of the 11th European Continuous Casting Conference, Steel Institute VDEh, Essen, Germany, 2024
• J. Norrena, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, A. Bogdanoff, and T. Fabritius, “Coupling of Solidification and Heat Transfer Simulations with Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Transverse Cracks in Continuous Casting of Steel", Steel Research International, vol. 95, no. 4, 2024. 2300529
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• J. Norrena, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, A. Bogdanoff, and T. Fabritius, “Assessing the Effects of Steel Composition on Surface Cracks in Continuous Casting with Solidification Simulations and Phenomenological Quality Criteria for Quality Prediction Applications", Steel Research International, vol. 94, no. 5, 2023. 2200746
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• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, "Application of the IDS solidification and microstructure tool for quality prediction in continuous casting of steel with novel phenomenological quality criteria", Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Continuous Casting, Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, Bari, Italy, 2021.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, A. Laukka, J. Miettinen, J. Norrena, V.-V. Visuri, T. Alatarvas, T. Fabritius, and E. Piipponen, Online 3D heat transfer and solidification/microstructure models and their capabilities for simulation of continuous casting of steel and quality prediction, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (M. Wu, ed.), The Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials, Vienna, Austria, pp. 413–421, 2021.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Carbon-containing thermodynamic descriptions of the Fe–Cr–Cu–Mo–Ni–C system for modeling the solidification of steels. No. 787 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2021. 214 pp.
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• J. Miettinen, S. Koskenniska, V.-V. Visuri, M. Somani, T. Fabritius, and J. Kömi, "Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Microstructure Data for Modeling Solidification of Fe-Al-Mn-Si-C Alloys", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 2946–2962, 2020.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Chromium-, copper-, molybdenum- , and nickel-containing thermodynamic descriptions of the Fe–Al–Cr–Cu–Mn–Mo–Ni–Si system for modeling the solidification of steels. No. 758 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2020. 404 pp.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, "Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 9: Fe–B–Cu", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 297–304, 2021.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, "Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe–B–X systems. Part 8: Fe–B–Mo, with extension to quaternary Fe–B–Cr–Mo system", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 281–295, 2021.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, M. C. Somani, S. Koskenniska, and T. Fabritius, "New Phenomenological Quality Criteria for Continuous Casting of Steel Based on Solidification and Microstructure Tool IDS", Ironmaking and Steelmaking, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 170–179, 2021
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, and G. Vassilev, "Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe B X systems. Part 7: Fe–B–C", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 697–707, 2020.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, "Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe B X systems. Part 6: Fe–B–Ti", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1249–1255, 2019.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, "Thermodynamic description of ternary Fe B X systems. Part 5: Fe–B–Si", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1239–1248, 2019
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, T. Fabritius, N. Milcheva, and G. Vassilev, "Thermodynamic Description of Ternary Fe-B-X Systems. Part 4: Fe-B-V", Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 451–456, 2019.
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• S. Louhenkilpi, J. Miettinen, J. Laine, R. Vesanen, I. Rentola, J. Moilanen, V.-V. Visuri, E.-P. Heikkinen, and A. Jokilaakso, "Online Modelling of Heat Transfer, Solidification and Microstructure in Continuous Casting of Steel", IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 529, 2019. 012051.
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• J. Miettinen, S. Louhenkilpi, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, "Advances in Modeling of Steel Solidification with IDS", IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 529, 2019. 012063.
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• J. Miettinen, V.-V. Visuri, and T. Fabritius, Thermodynamic description of the Fe–Al–Mn–Si–C system for modelling solidification of steels. No. 704 in Acta Universitatis Ouluensis C Technica, Oulu, Finland: University of Oulu, 2019.
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