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What is Steel?

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19 minutes 26 seconds recorded on November 9, 2015

What Makes Steel Strong?

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17 minutes 45 seconds recorded on January 26, 2016

Heat Treating Steel

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29 minutes 37 seconds recorded on February 23, 2016

What Makes Steel Stainless?

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24 minutes 23 seconds recorded on March 29, 2016

Introduction to Steel Melting Practices

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22 minutes 27 seconds recorded on April 26, 2016

Pouring and Gating Steel

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25 minutes 45 seconds recorded on May 24, 2016

Induction Melting Steel

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22 minutes 54 seconds recorded on August 23, 2016

Design of Experiments - Part 1 - Measurements

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22 minutes 49 seconds recorded on October 25, 2016

Design of Experiments - Part 2 - Experiments

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21 minutes 7 seconds recorded on November 8, 2016.

Design of Experiments - Part 3 - Analysis

DOE Webinar 3 Excel Spreadsheet

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19 minutes 58 seconds recorded on November 29, 2016.

Clean Steel - Part 1

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• SFF 334-10 Gating system design and bottom-pour ladle practice-their interactive effect on as-cast quality, Dr. Michael C. Ashton, Steel Castings Research and Trade Association
• SFF 321-01 Evaluation of whirl runners for large steel castings, A. K. Zaman, Rockwell International, Metal Casting Division
• SFSA Research Report 100 Development of Casting Technology to Allow Direct Use of Steel Castings in High Speed Machining Lines. May, 1987

21 minutes 23 seconds recorded on January 17, 2017.

Clean Steel - Part 2

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• Induction Melting Of Carbon And Low Alloy Steels Best Practice Issues, Karl Dance - Viking Pump, Rodman Duncan - Consultant
• The Effect Of Process Variables On Cope Inclusion Defects Two Decades Of Plant Trials, Rod Duncan -Casteel Technical Associates
• Use Of Statistical Techniques To Evaluate The Effect Of Process Variables On Cope Surface Quality, By Rod Duncan -Casteel Technical Associates
• Induction Melting In The Steel Foundry, Ron Duncan -Casteel Technical Service
• Oxide Macroinclusions in Steel Castings, Raymond Monroe -SFSA

21 minutes 58 seconds recorded on February 21, 2017.

Clean Steel - Part 3

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• Oxide Macroinclusions In Steel Castings, R. Monroe - Steel Founders' Society
• New Bottom Pour Nozzle And Gating Insert Development, George J. Vingas-Ceramco, Inc. & John M. Svoboda-Casteel Technology Associates
• Improved Steel Pourability And Cleanliness With Calcium Wire At The Harrison Steel Castings Company, Robert G, Shepherd-Harrison Steel Castings Co. & Frederick J. Squire -Pfizer, Inc.
• Appearance And Composition Of Oxide Macro-Inclusions In Steel Castings, John A. Griffin, Charles E. Bates, Raymond W. Monroe And John Svoboda
• Water Modeling Studies Of Gating Systems, Earl K. Weber, Patrick J. Hogan & Karl Kazmirski -American Steel Foundries
• Spal Process For Induction Melting, Daniel J. Croal -Gartland Foundries, Inc.
• Calcium Wire Injection Improves Cleanliness And Machinability Of Steel Castings, Thomas C. Marlborough -Racine Steel Castings
• Closed System Pouring, Douglas R. Callihan -Cmi - Quaker Alloy, Inc.
• The Effect Of The Smoothflow/Cta Cruciform Nozzle On The Incidemacroinclusion Formation. Nce Of Oxide, Malcolm Blair-Steel Founders' Society Of America & Robert G. Shepherd-Harrison Steel Casting Co.
• Important Factors In The Production Of Clean Steel From The Continuous Casting Industry , Raymond W. Monroe -Steel Founders' Society Of America
• Water Modeling Of Steel Flow, Air Entrainment And Filtration, Christoph Beckermann -The University Of Iowa
• Air Entrainment During Pouring From Bottom Pour, Teapot, And Quadrant Pour Ladles, Lesley Brown, John Griffin And Charles E. Bates-University Of Alabama At Birmingham
• Analysis Of Water Modeling Of Air Entrainment, S.C. Jain, C. Beckermann -The University Of Iowa
• Variation In Casting Quality Analysis., Raymond Monroe 7 Malcolm Blair -Sfsa & John Griffin -University Of Alabama At Birmingham
• Shrouding And Mold Inerting At Electric Steel, William F. Baker -Electric Steel Castings Company
• Results From The Clean Heat / Dirty Heat Trials, Malcolm Blair, SFSA & John Griffin, UAB

22 minutes 5 seconds recorded on March 28, 2017.

Clean Steel - Part 4

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22 minutes 1 second recorded on April 18, 2017

Clean Steel - Part 5 - Gating 1

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21 minutes 49 seconds recorded on June 6, 2017

Clean Steel - Part 6 - Gating 2 - Lip Pour

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21 minutes 5 seconds recorded on July 25, 2017

Clean Steel - Part 7 - Gating 3 - Bottom Pour

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YouTube video - Flow Exiting a Tank (Bernoulli) University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

18 minutes 8 seconds recorded on August 22, 2017

Clean Steel - Part 8 - Innovative Pouring and Gating

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23 minutes recorded on September 25, 2017

Porosity - Holes in Steel Castings

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18 minutes 19 seconds recorded on October 17, 2017

Porosity - Air Entrainment and Blowholes

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• T&O Paper 2004-4.3 Porosity In Steel Castings, Raymond Monroe, SFSA

17 minutes 5 seconds recorded on November 14 2017

Porosity - Pinholes

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21 minutes 2 seconds recorded on January 16 2018

Porosity - Inclusions and Porosity

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15 minutes 9 seconds recorded on February 6 2018

Porosity - Shrinkage and Porosity

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14 minutes 27 seconds recorded on March 6 2018

Cracks in Steel Castings 1

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• Troubleshooting Cracks in Steel Castings - Presentation slides, Rodman Duncan
• Identification and Prevention of Cracks in Steel Castings - Rodman Duncan, presented at the 1997 Technical & Operating Conference.

14 minutes 50 seconds recorded on June 14 2018

Cracks in Steel Castings 2 - Solidification

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18 minutes 52 seconds recorded on July 23 2018

Cracks in Steel Castings 3 - Craze Cracks and Hot Cracks

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17 minutes 11 seconds recorded on August 28 2018

Cracks in Steel Castings 4 - Stress and Riser Cracks

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• Simulation of Macrosegregation in Steel Castings – A Review - Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa
• A Guide to the Solidification of Steels - Jernkontoret (Sweden's steel industry trade association)
• Elemental Segregation and Under-Riser Cracking

21 minutes 30 seconds recorded on October 17 2018

Cracks in Steel Castings 5 - Aluminum Nitride Rock Candy

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• Deoxidation In Heavy Section Steel Castings, Barbara Allyn, John Carpenter, & Brent Hanquist, Harrison Steel Castings Company, presented at the 2006 Technical & Operating Conference.
• Prediction of Aluminum Nitride Embrittlement in Heavy Section Steel Castings, Charles Monroe - Caterpillar, presented at the 2009 Technical & Operating Conference.

20 minutes 17 seconds recorded on January 15 2019

Cracks in Steel Castings 6 - Heat Treat and Quench Cracks

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20 minutes 58 seconds recorded on February 12 2019

Cracks in Steel Castings 7 - Hydrogen and Delayed Cracking

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19 minutes 52 seconds recorded on April 23 2019

Test Uncertainty in Mechanical Testing of Steel Castings

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19 minutes 28 seconds recorded on July 24 2019

Steel Casting Performance

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22 minutes 11 seconds recorded on November 21 2019

Mold Metal Challenges

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10 minutes 58 seconds recorded February 26 2020

Mold Metal Challenges 2 - Sand Expansion

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• SFSA Research Report 102A. The Behavior of Iron Oxide as an Additive to No-bake Sands for the Reduction of Casting Defects. July, 1990 (310 KB)
• Simulation of Distortions and Pattern Allowances for a Production Steel Casting, Daniel Galles, Christoph Beckermann - University of Iowa
• Sand And Steel: Controlling Undesirable Surface Conditions, Von Richards And Deepak Rasquinha - University Of Missouri - Rolla & Raymond Monroe - SFSA

22 minutes 48 seconds recorded April 28 2020

Mold Metal Challenges 3 - Interface Chemistry

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23 minutes 40 seconds recorded June 2 2020

Mold Metal Challenges 4 - Specialty Sands

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28 minutes 8 seconds recorded August 11 2020

Mold Metal Challenges 5 - Iron Oxide

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• Iron Oxide in Molds and Cores for the Production of Steel Castings, Raymond Monroe - SFSA

29 minutes 46 seconds recorded October 27 2020

Mold Metal Challenges 6 - Dimensions

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25 minutes 5 seconds recorded February 23 2021

Mold Metal Challenges 7 - Erosion

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20 minutes 30 seconds recorded March 24 2021

Mold Metal Challenges 8 - Penetration

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24 minutes 49 seconds recorded April 27 2021

Mold Metal Challenges 9 - Burn-in or Burn-on

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18 minutes 51 seconds recorded August 17 2021

Mold Metal Challenges 10 - Veining and Hot Tearing

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• Veining and Hot Tears, Raymond Monroe, SFSA, UAB, presented at the 2017 SFSA Technical & Operating Conference
• Bibliography

21 minutes 49 seconds recorded January 18 2022

Mold Metal Challenges 11 - Porosity

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21 minutes 49 seconds recorded February 15 2022

Segregation and Steel Castings

Segregation and Flow

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15 minutes 37 seconds recorded April 19 2023

Micro-segregation and Homogenization

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19 minutes 2 seconds recorded May 16 2023

Corrosion 1 - Uniform and Galvanic

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15 minutes 7 seconds recorded on April 23 2019

Corrosion 2 - Pitting, Crevice, and Intergranular

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15 minutes 1 seconds recorded on June 13 2019

Corrosion 3 - Leaching, Erosion Corrosion, Stress Corrosion (Cracking), and Passivation

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11 minutes 38 seconds recorded on August 1 2019

Corrosion 4 - Corrosion Testing A262 Practice A and E

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19 minutes 21 seconds recorded on October 17 2019

Corrosion 5 - Corrosion Testing Part 2

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Posted February 2, 2022

Basics of Export Compliance - ITAR and EAR

54 minutes 5 seconds recorded on April 25 2018