<b>Fundamental Design of Steelmaking Refractories</b><p><b>Comprehensive up-to-date resource organizing fundamental aspects for the design and performance of steelmaking refractories</b><p><i>Fundamental Design of Steelmaking Refractories</i> provides a fundamental understanding in the design of steelmaking refractories, in detail and all in one source, enabling readers to understand various issues including how heat and mass transfer occurs throughout the refractory, how matrix impurity or their contact affects the phases, and how invisible defects form during refractory manufacturing that eventually facilitates to analyze wear, corrosion, and performance of different refractory linings for primary and secondary steelmaking vessels, tundish, and continuous casting refractories. <p>Other specific sample topics covered in <i>Fundamental Design of Steelmaking Refractories</i> include: <ul><li>Phase formations and correlation with impurity effects and refractory processing shortcomings</l