The soft-contact electromagnetic continuous casting for steel is a technology using high frequency alternating electromagnetic field to load a electromagnetic force on initial solidification zone of billet in mold decrease contact pressure between liquid steel and mold wall

thus reducing the effect of mold oscillation on surface quality of billet

decreasing billet casting friction drag and lowering heat transfer at initial solidification point to advance the surface quality of billet. The issues that need to be resolved including structure and material of mold and parameters of electromagnetic field to realize soft-contact electromagnetic continuous casting are analyzed and the latest research outcomes- high-frequency amplitude- modulated field and mold oscillation-less electromagnetic continuous casting are presented in this paper.