| abstract |
Ceramic plates for side dams of twin-drum continuousnstrip casters comprising a REAG phase of 10 to 90 vol.%,na Sialon phase of 5 to 50 vol.%, a BN phase of 5 to 50nvol.% and an amorphous phase of over 0 to 20 vol.%, withnthe REAG phase comprising at least one rare-earthnaluminum garnet phase selected from YAG, ErAG, YbAG andnDyAG phases and the Sialon phase having a chemicalnformula, Si 6-z Al z O z N 8-z , wherein Z is between 0.05 and 1.9. |