Patent ID: 8336602

Claim:
A continuous casting installation ( 20 ), comprising a strand guide formed of a plurality of casting segments ( 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ), each segment having a plurality of rollers ( 2 ), for guiding a strand, supports ( 3 ) for supporting the rollers ( 2 ), and support housings ( 30 ) for receiving the supports ( 3 ); and a data processing unit ( 38 ) for determining solidification state of the strand, wherein there are provided a plurality of measurement points for determination of deformation forces acting on respective middle supports for respective rollers of respective segments, wherein each measurement point is provided on a support housing of a respective middle support between the respective middle support and a frame of a respective measurement segment, and wherein the data processing unit determines the solidification state of the strand based on distribution of deformation of the middle supports under deformation forces acting thereon by an analytical statistical evaluation method for determining level differences of measurement variables.