Thermal and mechanical behavior of casting copper alloy wheel during wheel and belt continuous casting process

To investigate the thermal and mechanical behavior of casting wheel, a two-dimensional thermoelastic-plastic finite element model was used to predict the temperature, stress and distortion distribution of the casting wheel during the wheel and belt continuous casting process. The effects of grinding thickness and casting speed on the thermal and mechanical behaviors of the center of the hot face of the casting wheel were discussed in detail. In each rotation, the casting wheel passes through four different spray zones. The results show that the temperature distribution of the casting wheel in different spray zones is similar, the temperature of the hot face is the highest and the temperature reaches the peak in the spray zone III. The stress and distortion depend on the temperature distribution, and the maximum stress and distortion of the hot face are 358.2 MPa and 1.82 mm, respectively. The temperature at the center of the hot face decreases with increasing grinding thickness and increases with increasing casting speed.