A combined suite of in house finite element (FE) and finite prism (FP) models has been developed to address real time predictions of temperature, distortion and structure during cooling of long product sections. The present paper also describes various applications of cooling, and compares the developed approaches with conventional three-dimensional and generalised plane strain formulation elements and experimental results. These models have also been used to simulate the effectiveness of alternative cooling strategies (e.g. spray cooling) in reducing levels of thermal distortion.
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