Initial Position / Aims: In a previous project, high-alloy steels from the hot work, cold work and plastic moulding sectors […]
Initial Position / Aims: In a previous project, high-alloy steels from the hot work, cold work and plastic moulding sectors […]
Situation: Oil-based lubricants are state-of-the-art in cold rolling of steel and hot rolling of aluminium. 2-phase character of emulsions and […]
Situation: The main requirements of wear components in hot strip mills are high resistance against: abrasive wear to increase lifetime, […]
The aim of ReduHeatLoss is to minimise heat losses of hot rolled long products along the rolling process. Many studies […]
Situation: The company Adient produces seat rails (by forming and punching of steel sheet) with an annual production of approx. […]
This project aims at improving slag valorization from electric steelmaking process route through improved slag conditioning and exploration of new […]
Situation: During rolling, straightening and thermal processing of long products internal stresses arise impairing the products material properties and causing […]
OptProKomp – Optimized process chain for the generation of demand-oriented material properties for extremely loaded machine and plant components Situation: […]
Situation: Growing demands on cutting tools regarding cutting quality when processing high-quality strip materials, e.g. special paper, FRPs, insulating materials […]
Situation: In hot processing of steel, reactions of the metal surface with ambient air result in the formation of complex […]
With more and more need for high-strength-steel the rolling-mills have to be expanded to deal with the resulting higher rolling-forces. […]
Situation: Tool wear occurs during cutting and forming Temperature gradients and deviations Mechanical stresses Abrasion and surface fatigue Solution: Development […]
Situation: Achieving high surface quality of hot rolled high strength steel strip and reproducible rolling results remains challenging: Primary scale […]
Situation: During re-heating of material for the production of special long products and forged screws 1 to 2 % of […]
Situation: Trend in product development where higher quality standards with tighter material property tolerances are demanded by clients. Quality problems […]
Situation: High tribological load on circular knives, resulting in high wear. Wear of knives caused by different mechanisms, depending on […]
Initial Position: Cryogenic treatment – adjunctive treatment in hardening and tempering process to improve wear resistance and toughness of tool […]
Situation: Frequent malfunction in the case of sliding contacts in the boundary friction regime for discontinuous movements and high loads. […]
Situation: Increasing number of cold rolling work rolls failures, induced through hydrogen. Damages and/or failures can also cause dangerous explosions […]
Situation: The main requirements of wear components in hot strip mills are high resistance against: abrasive wear to increase lifetime, […]
Situation: Large amounts of zinc top dross occur as low-grade residues in the hot-dip galvanizing lines High ohmic power losses […]
Situation: Partially high wear rates can appear at hot rolling of profiles due to thermal and mechanical stresses. High mechanical […]
Initial situation: End-point control of the Oxygen Steelmaking Converter (BOF) process is mainly based on results of a static charge […]
Situation: The roughness of zinc coated steel flat products is a very important regarding the deep drawing properties and the […]
Initial situation: bad hearth condition influences energy consumption, operational stability, hot metal quality and productivity. from earlier research projects offline […]
Situation: Oil-based lubricants are state-of-the-art in cold rolling of steel and hot rolling of aluminium. 2-phase character of emulsions and […]
Situation: Scale formation of 1 to 2 % during reheating of the material for die forging process lead to material […]
Initial situation: Scale formation during reheating leads to material losses. Poor descalability and scale residuals lead to surface impairments and […]
Initial situation: Due to the wide range of material transports, the preparation of the fluff is one of the largest […]
Initial situation The evolution of secondary steelmaking processes and its introduction to the steelmaking plants brought about the effective production […]
Initial situation Unknown position and voidage of the dead man Uncertainty concerning liquid levels of iron and slag Hearth wear […]
Initial situation: The regulations of the strip thickness and the strip planarity influence each other. The planarity controller is artificially […]