METHOD FOR CASTING MOLTEN METAL, APPARATUS FOR THE SAME AND CAST SLAB

摘要

The present invention provides a continuous casting method in which vibration is given to molten metal by a shifting magnetic field so that the equi-axed crystal ratio can be enhanced and the equi-axed crystals can be made fine without generating surface defects caused by powder trapping. Further, the present invention provides an apparatus to which the continuous casting method is applied. Furthermore, the present invention provides a cast slab produced by the above method and apparatus. The method of casting molten metal comprises the steps of: pouring molten metal into a mold and solidifying it in the mold while applying an electromagnetic force, which is generated by an electromagnetic coil arranged in the proximity of a molten metal pool in the mold, upon the molten metal; and vibrating the molten metal, which has been solidified in the mold or is being drawn out downward from the mold while being cooled and solidified, by a shifting magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic coil so that the molten metal is accelerated by a high intensity and a low intensity of acceleration in a range not exceeding a predetermined flow velocity when the directional vectors of high acceleration and low acceleration in the same direction or in the opposite direction are combined with each other.