A review of research on central crack in continuous casting strand

Central crack is a common quality defect in continuous casting strand,which is difficult to fully weld in the rolling and forging processes,and has become a key technical problem that restricts the stable production of high-end alloy rod/forging/pipe.In recent years,the central crack control has been one of the main focuses in high quality steel research.In order to fully understand the central crack,the research status of central crack characteristics,formation mechanism,influencing factors,and control methods in the world was reviewed.The deficiencies in the research of the central crack and the key research directions in the future were pointed out,which will provide references for other scholars in this field of research.It is found that alloying elements segregation during solidification and inclusions precipitated at grain boundaries are the main reasons for the central crack formation,while the unreasonable application of production processes can also induce the initiation of central crack.The optimization of alloying element composition and production process is helpful to reduce the initiation of central cracks.In addition,the quantitative characterization mechanism based on steel grades,temperature,stress,and other factors induced central crack should be established in the further study,forming a systematic quantitative determination criterion and control strategy for coupling the composition,process and thermal/mechanical characteristic.

Analysis of volatile compounds in Herba Asari by single-drop micro-extraction gas chromatography mass spectrometry

A rapid headspace single-drop micro-extraction（mix） gas chromatography mass spectrometry（SDMEGC -MS） for the analysis of the volatile compounds in Herba Asari was developed in this study.A mixed solvent of n-tridecane and butyl acetate（1：1） was finally used for the extraction at 70 C for 15 min with sample amount of 0.750 g and 100 mesh particle size.Under the determined conditions,the pound samples of Herba Asari were directly applied for the analysis.SDME-GC-MS,SPME-GC-MS and SD-GCMS methods were compared and the results showed that SDME-GC-MS method was a simple, inexpensive and effective way to measure the volatile compounds in Herba Asari and could be used for the analysis of volatile compounds in complex samples.

New computational treatment of optical wave propagation in lossy waveguides

In this paper, the optical wave propagation in lossy waveguides is described by the Helmholtz equation with the complex refractive-index, and the Chebyshev pseudospectral method is used to discretize the transverse operator of the equation. Meanwhile, an operator marching method, a one-way re-formulation based on the Dirichlet- to-Neumann （DtN） map, is improved to solve the equation. NumericM examples show that our treatment is more efficient.