Effects of Replacing Fluorine with Sodium and Titanium Oxides on Continuous Casting of Steel Mold Powders Lubrication

Subject Areas : Ceramics

Ahmadreza Arefpour ¹ , Ahmad Monshi ² , Ali Saidi ³

1 - Department of material engineering, Najaf Abad Branch, Islamic Azad university, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Department of materials Engineering, Najaf Abad branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan
3 - Department of materials Engineering, Najaf Abad branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan

Received: 2014-05-19 Accepted : 2014-12-23 Published : 2015-03-01

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