Continuous casting mold is provided having a mold copper plate having plural separate portions filled with foreign metal formed by filling concave grooves formed on the inner wall surface of the mold copper plate and having a diameter of 2 mm to 20 mm in the inner wall surface at least in the region from a meniscus to a position located 20 mm or more lower than the meniscus with the foreign metal whose thermal conductivity is 80% or less or 125% or more of the mold copper plate, the ratio of the Vickers hardness HVc of the mold copper plate to the Vickers hardness HVm of the filling metal satisfies expression (1), and the ratio of the thermal expansion coefficient αc of the mold copper plate and the thermal expansion coefficient αm of the filling metal satisfies expression (2).
0.3≤HVc/HVm≤2.3  (1),
0.7≤αc/αm≤3.5  (2)

Continuous casting mold is provided having a mold copper plate having plural separate portions filled with foreign metal formed by filling concave grooves formed on the inner wall surface of the mold copper plate and having a diameter of 2 mm to 20 mm in the inner wall surface at least in the region from a meniscus to a position located 20 mm or more lower than the meniscus with the foreign metal whose thermal conductivity is 80% or less or 125% or more of the mold copper plate, the ratio of the Vickers hardness HVc of the mold copper plate to the Vickers hardness HVm of the filling metal satisfies expression (1), and the ratio of the thermal expansion coefficient αc of the mold copper plate and the thermal expansion coefficient αm of the filling metal satisfies expression (2).
0.3≤HVc/HVm≤2.3  (1),
0.7≤αc/αm≤3.5  (2)

Provided herein is a system, apparatus, and method for continuous casting of metal, and more particularly, to a mechanism for controlling the shape of a direct chill casting mold to dynamically control a profile of an ingot cast from the mold during the casting process. Embodiments may provide an apparatus for casting material including: first and second opposing side walls; first and second end walls extending between the first and second side walls, where the first and second opposing side walls and the first and second opposing end walls form a generally rectangular shaped mold cavity. At least one of the first and second opposing side walls may include two or more contact regions, where each of the two or more contact regions may be configured to be displaced relative to a straight line along the side wall.

A continuously casting method including arranging temperature measuring elements according to specified conditions, selecting as evaluation targets for temperatures of copper plates on a wide face of mold values measured by the temperature measuring elements arranged closer to a center in a width direction of a cast slab than short sides of the cast slab under continuous casting at levels of 50 mm or more lower in a slab withdrawal direction than a meniscus of a molten steel in a mold, and adjusting a casting condition such that a standard deviation of the values measured over the width direction of the copper plates on the wide face of mold at a same level in the slab withdrawal direction is 20° C. or lower.

Crystallizer for the continuous high-speed casting of a metal product (P), which has a casting cavity (13) defined by walls (14) connected to each other in correspondence with edges (15) and provided with cooling means (16).

The invention provides a casting equipment (1) for casting melt (15) into a cast product (80) comprising a supply reservoir (10) for supplying the melt (15), a distribution reservoir (20), a casting apparatus (25) having a melt inlet connected to the distribution reservoir (20) for producing the cast product (80), a supply conduit (30) fluidly connecting the supply reservoir (10) and the distribution reservoir (20), an electromagnetic pump (35) provided on the supply conduit (30) and operable to generate a force in the melt (15) in the supply conduit (30), a level sensor (40) for measuring a level of the melt (15) in the distribution reservoir (20) and/or in the supply reservoir (10), a controller operably connected to the pump (35) and the level sensor (40), wherein the supply conduit (30) is sealed or sealable from a pressure of the atmosphere, wherein the controller is configured to control an operation of the pump (35) based on a level signal from the level sensor (40), and wherein, at least during a steady-state casting operation, the casting equipment is configured such that the supply conduit (30) defines a flow path that has a point that is higher than a surface of the melt in the supply reservoir (10) and/or the distribution reservoir (20), and the pump (35) is operated such that the metal level in the distribution reservoir (20) is at a predefined level such as to control a pressure of the melt (15) in the melt inlet of the casting apparatus (25).

Provided is a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy exterior material for smart devices which is formed not by extrusion or die casting but by a strip casting method using a rotating mold, and an aluminum alloy exterior material manufactured by the method. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes: preparing a molten aluminum alloy; casting the molten aluminum alloy into a sheet shape using a rotating mold to form an aluminum alloy cast sheet; and anodizing the aluminum alloy cast sheet, wherein in the forming of an aluminum alloy cast sheet, X in Equation 1 below may have a value in the range of greater than 0 and equal to or less than 0.15.
X=(W.sub.Zn+W.sub.Mg+W.sub.Cu+W.sub.Si)/TC  <Equation 1> Here, W.sub.Zn+W.sub.Mg+W.sub.Cu+W.sub.Si is the total content (wt %) of zinc, magnesium, copper and silicon) in the aluminum alloy, and TC is the thermal conductivity (W/m.Math.K) of the rotating mold.

A composite equal additive manufacturing method: S1, obtaining molten metal by using a metal smelting device; S2, first, storing inflow molten metal in an intermediate container, and then transferring the molten metal into a crystallizer; S3, cooling the molten metal to a solid-liquid mixed state by using the crystallizer, and enabling a high-temperature blank body with a required section to flow out from an outlet of the crystallizer; S4, arranging plastic forming tools at a bottom of the outlet of the crystallizer, and performing plastic forming on the outflow high-temperature blank body; S5, fixing a lower end of a part after the plastic forming and slowly descending the part by a chuck; S6, machining the part by using point forming machines, and synchronously controlling the machining temperature of the part; and S7, descending the chuck to an appropriate position, and taking the formed part out from the machine frame.

A method and apparatus used to achieve alignment during mold assembly and accommodate thermal expansion comprising employing a compressible region and a modified interface dimension.

This mold equipment is mold equipment provided with a mold, an electromagnetic brake device, and a control device. An immersion nozzle is provided with a pair of discharge holes of molten metal, the electromagnetic brake device is provided with an iron core including a pair of teeth and coils wound around the respective teeth, the coils on one side are connected in series in a first circuit, the coils on the other side are connected in series in a second circuit, and the control device is able to independently control voltage and current applied to each of the first and second circuits for each circuit, detects a drift of a discharge flow between the pair of discharge holes on the basis of the voltage applied to the coils in the first circuit and the voltage applied to the coils in the second circuit, and controls the current flowing through the first circuit and the current flowing through the second circuit on the basis of a detection result.