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Online Microstructure Analytics (OMA)

  • Project category Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS)
  • Lab/Research Area TeCIP of Institute PERCRO Laboratory
  • Expected funding €161 250
  • Costo complessivo €268 750
  • Project partner SSAB EMEA AB (Sweden)
  • Project partner ASOCIACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO CEIT-IK4 (Spain)
  • Project partner THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (UK)
  • Project partner THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
  • Project partner NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
  • Project partner Swerim AB (Sweden)
  • Project partner COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (France)
  • Project partner ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE CACHAN
  • Project partner ALTAIR ENGINEERING FRANCE
  • Project partner UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
  • Principal investigator TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY BV (Netherlands)
  • SSSA involvement Partner
  • Sponsor Commissione Europea

To reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption in mobility and transport, the steel industry enables weight savings by expansion of the Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) product portfolio. 

AHSS owe their strength to their largely refined and complex microstructures, containing multiple metallurgical phases. 

Optimal control of the thermomechanical processing of AHSS requires inline sensors for real-time monitoring of evolution and consistency of microstructure and material properties. 

This OMA proposal aims at improving the quality of the information on AHSS’s microstructure and mechanical properties extracted from existing inline sensing equipment by combining the strengths of multiscale material models, model inversion techniques and advanced data analytics.