ANALYSIS OF THERMAL STRESSES IN MASSIVE STEEL INGOTS IN THE PROCESS 
OF THEIR HEATING IN A FURNACE PRIOR TO THEIR TREATMENT BY PRESSURE

Yu. A. Samoilovich,a V. I. Timoshpol'skii,b
I. A. Trusova,c and S. M. Kabishovc

UDC 669.18:538.911

A method of estimating the thermally stressed state of 
massive steel ingots heated in a combustion furnace has been developed. 
The rate of heating of these ingots as permitted by their technological 
parameters (admissible thermal stresses), was estimated.

aPlatan Scientific-Production Company, Ekaterinburg, Russia; 
bPresidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 
66 Nezavisimost' Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; 
cBelarusian National Technical University, 65 Nezavisimost' Ave., 
Minsk, 220072, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 
117-122, January-February, 2008. Original article submitted 
October 2, 2007.