The aim of TWIP4EU is to promote the introduction of modern twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steels as candidate material for production of lightweight automobile components. To introduce a new steel grade like high strength and ductility TWIP-steel for large scale applications in industrial...

The production of ultra-light, economical and ecologically oriented component structures with high contour complexity in the automotive industry necessitates the use of profiles and tubes made of innovative high-strength steel grades. The torque superposed spatial (TSS) profile bending process,...

An empirical catalogue of corrosion behaviour for different material couples has been established and the major problem couples identified including Mg in all couples and Al coupled to galvanised steel. The different corrosion products produced under these conditions have been identified. A...

Materials applied in automobile exhaust system have to sustain various mechanical and corrosive impacts. The magnitude of these impacts strongly depends on positioning within the exhaust system, since there is a severe thermal grad from the hot-end to the cold-end. The manifold at the hot-end...

The main objectives of this project were to supply the EU Steelmaking and Automotive Industry with guidelines for the production using existing productive plants and best utilisation of ultrafine grained carbon steel long products for mechanical applications. A ferrite grain size in the range of...

The aims of this project were to establish connections between the coating composition, microstructure, pre-treatment and corrosion performance of ZnAlMg 'ZMA' coatings both in accelerated tests and field exposures. Line hot dip materials including four conventional zinc coatings and three ZMA...

The main objective of the HI-VEL project is to establish the feasibility of high velocity forming methods and to quantify the enhancement achievable with these techniques in the formability of high strength steel (HSS) and stainless steel sheets and tubes for automotive applications....

EAF slag is a by-product of electric steelmaking, the annual quantity in Europe is around 10 M tonnes, 8 M tonnes from carbon steelmaking and 2 M tonnes from high alloyed steelmaking. The objective of this project is to increase the utilisation of EAF slag by improving the quality of this slag....

The aim of this project was to develop an advanced product quality supervisory system for flat steel production based on high resolution (HR) measuring data. To achieve this ambitious target new methods have been developed, employing innovative software technologies and modern computation...