Wechselwirkungen zwischen Maschinengestaltung und Produktqualität am Beispiel einer Stranggießkokille

At the example of a continuous casting mold it will be introduced how varied multi-physical interactions can be grasped and converted into a knowledge-based solution within a CAE-environment, forming a flexible interconnected CAD-product-model-system. Essential metallurgical, thermal, mechanical and fluid-technical descriptions of the processes within a continuous casting mold are gathered and introduced. Interactions between the process parameters and possibilities for influencing the cooling intensity and the copper plate temperatures are explained and are made clear for the design engineers by providing functionally specific analysis modules. In optimization studies for mold modules specific tailored form modules for the description of the copper surface are developed and new design methodologies to describe complex trajectories of cooling channels are demonstrated, with its help the product quality can be influenced positively.