Abrasion is a commonly occurring wear mechanism in agricultural and construction equipment. Such applications are prone to combined impact and abrasion in presence of particles. This might result in dual occurrence or overlap in wear mechanisms. Investigations on abrasion resistance have already...
The aims were to establish the relationship between the microstructure of alloyed metallic coatings and their corrosion resistance in laboratory tests and outdoor exposures. In addition to five line coated steel materials including GI (Zn-0.2Al), Galfan (Zn-5Al), MZ(Zn-1.6Al-1.6Mg), ZM (Zn-2.6Al...
The iCut project was conceived to understand the relationship between the cut edge characteristics and the fatigue, H-embrittlement and formability of HMnS steels. From the knowledge generated, adequate decisions can be taken regarding cutting technologies and parameters, aiming at producing hig...
The objective of the research program FREEDAM (FREE from DAMage steel connections) is the development of a novel strategy based on the introduction of connections in steel Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) able to withstand without any damage inelastic rotation demands occurring under destructive s...
The goal of RFCS project BaseForm is to optimize the microstructures with a bainitic matrix in order to improve the cold formability and edge-cracking behaviour of advanced high-strength steels with high yield strength. Two alloy compositions (low alloyed low carbon alloys with low and high Si c...
The main objective of the BOFdePhos project was the investigation of relevant thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of the dephosphorisation reaction in the BOF process, such as the effect of slag composition and solid phases on phosphorus distribution, lime dissolution and the evolution of metal-sl...
The project objective is the optimisation of EAF scrap management, aiming at improvements of the process performance. It shall be achieved through coupled and parallel optimisation of charge materials (scrap and other additions) and operating practices, involving multi-criteria targets as yield,...
The uniformity of the microstructure of steel strip over the entire coil length and between different coils of the same grade is key to stable and consistent material behaviour during processes like rolling, pressing and deep-drawing. In particular for highstrength steels, like dual-phase and co...
Ti-stabilised ULC steel grades are very sensitive regarding clogging. There is still a lack of complete understanding of this phenomenon especially for Ti stabilised ULC steel. In WP1 available knowledge regarding clogging was collected. Distribution of clogging deposition was observed in post-m...
The INDUSE-2-SAFETY proposal is the direct continuation of the RFSR INDUSE project (2009-2012) focussing on onshore industrial plants at the system level inside the scope of EN 1998. In detail, INDUSE-2-SAFETY aims to develop a quantitative risk assessment methodology for seismic loss prevention...
