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Numerical Analysis of the Irreversible Behavior of Corundum Castable Purging Plugs During Service

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Purging plugs employed in ladles in the steel industry undergo severe thermomechanical loads owing to the cyclic operations, including preheating, transporting, stirring, and holding stages. For the smooth running of the process with less downtime, the lifespan of the purging plug needs to be aligned with the overhaul interval without failure. In the present study, to identify the thermomechanical failure mechanisms of corundum castable purging plugs with different slit structures via a quantitative evaluation method, the Drucker–Prager material constitutive model was applied to account for the irreversible behavior. The results indicate that both shear and tensile failure occur in the purging plug with rectangular slits, where the shear failure dominates in the middle of the holding stage and tensile failure appears during the stirring stage. Moreover, the premature shear failure occurs in the upper section near the working face for both types of purging plugs. The application of circular slits diminishes the stress concentration in the purging plug and changes the fracture mechanisms, extent, and occurrence time, which experience mere shear failure in the early stage of transportation.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Numbers 51974211 and 12072245] and the Special Project of Central Government for Local Science and Technology Development of Hubei Province [Grant Numbers 2019ZYYD003, 2019ZYYD076].

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, People’s Republic of China

    Fangguan Tan, Zhu He & Yawei Li

  2. National-Provincial Joint Engineering Research Center of High Temperature Materials and Lining Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, People’s Republic of China

    Fangguan Tan, Zhu He & Yawei Li

  3. Chair of Ceramics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, 8700, Leoben, Austria

    Shengli Jin

  4. Department of Thermal Energy Engineering, School of Materials and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 947 Heping Avenue, Qingshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

    Zhu He

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Tan, F., Jin, S., He, Z. et al. Numerical Analysis of the Irreversible Behavior of Corundum Castable Purging Plugs During Service. JOM 73, 2911–2919 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04838-0

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