ANALYSIS OF THE DURABILITY OF SUPPORT ROLLERS 
OF CONTINUOUS-CASTING MACHINES

Yu. A. Samoilovich,a V. I. Timoshpol'skii,b 
I. A. Trusova,b and V. A. Goryainovc

UDC 621.746

The durability of support rollers of continuous slab-casting 
machines has been evaluated by determining the long-time ductility 
of steel as a function of the dimension of nonmetallic oxide-type 
inclusions contained in the metal.

Keywords: continuous slab-casting machine, support 
rollers, durability, nonmetallic inclusions.
 
a"Platan" Science and Production Enterprise, Ekaterinburg, Russia; 
bBelarusian National Technical University, 65 Nezavisimost' Ave., 
Minsk, 220013, Belarus; c"Bitek" Private Corporation, Moscow, 
Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 
2, pp. 379-384, March-April, 2009. Original article submitted 
December 7, 2007.