Seeing Is Believing — Professor Alan Cramb’s Contributions to How We Understand High-Temperature Processes

Alan Cramb is a pioneer; among those are his ability to design experimental systems to investigate complex phenomena in steelmaking conditions. Including high temperatures, reactive molten materials and gases, which makes it very challenging to contain and probe transformations and reactions. The final microstructures and products often depend on kinetics, which depend on evolving interfaces and surfaces, making the ability for probing phenomenon in-situ important for developing models and understanding of processes during refining, teeming, casting, etc. This paper will discuss examples of Cramb’s work on applying high-temperature methods to study crystallization of mold fluxes and evolution of inclusions.

Authors:

Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman | Arizona State University
 

Session Chairs:

Roger Maddalena | Thermo Fisher Scientific