Abstract
Thermal and differential analysis (TDA) constitutes a very popular and effective tool of quantitative estimation of so- lidification process parameters, such as border temperatures, evolution of latent heat etc. TDA registering system is con- nected to the thermocouple located at a central point of sampling casting. Using the adequate program of automatic data processing one obtains the information concerning the cooling curve and its time derivative at the point corresponding to sensor position. In the paper the solution of inverse problem consisting in the identification of cast steel latent heat is dis- cussed. The additional information necessary to solve the problem results both from a knowledge of cooling curve T(t) and a knowledge of its time derivative T'(t). The criterion determining the optimum value of latent heat bases on the input data concerning not only T(t) but also T'(t). On a stage of numerical computations the finite difference method has been used. In a final part of the paper, the examples of identification process are shown.