Unveiling salient operating principles for reducing meniscus level fluctuation in an industrial thin slab caster using evolutionary multicriteria pareto optimization

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-99

  Mitra, Kishalay ^a   Ghosh, Sudipto ^b  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Bulging; Genetic algorithms; Meniscus level fluctuation; Multiobjective optimization; Pareto set; Spray cooling; Thin slab casting

Indexed keywords

CASTING; CONTINUOUS CASTING; COOLING; DIESEL ENGINES; FURNACES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVESTMENT CASTING; METAL CASTING; METAL CASTINGS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PESTICIDES; SLAB MILLS; SPEED; SPRAY STEELMAKING; TEMPERATURE;

BULGING; MENISCUS LEVEL FLUCTUATION; PARETO SET; SPRAY COOLING; THIN SLAB CASTING;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 57649216598     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426910802543889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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