International Projects
Fast simulation tool for long product rolling (FastLoRoll)
Title:
Fast simulation tool for long product rolling
Acronym:
FastLoRoll
Start: 01.06.2018 /End: 30.11.2022
Co-financing for Łukasiewicz – GIT: PLN 983,975.00
Total value of the project: PLN 6,301,048.00
Executive Agency: European Commission (Directorate-General for Research & Innovation) Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Programme name: Research Fund for Coal and Steel, Co-financed International Projects (PMW)
Consortium:
- RINA CONSULTING – CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA [Leader],
- CMC POLAND SP. Z O.O.,
- O.R.I. MARTIN – ACCIAIERIA E FERRIERA DI BRESCIA SPA,
- Łukasiewicz Research Network – Upper Silesian Institute of Technology,
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG
Project Manager:
Roman Kuziak, PhD, DSc, ProfTit
Tel.: 32 2345 241
E-mail: roman.kuziak@git.lukasiewicz.gov.pl
Objective:
This project has received funding from the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under grant agreement No 800746.
The project aimed to develop a new approach to the simulation of the rolling process of long products involving not only the prediction of plastic flow and microstructure development, but also enabling the prediction of the evolution of the shape and morphology of non-metallic inclusions and the welding of the porosity and discontinuity of the steel ingot macrostructure. As part of the project, a computer platform was developed and implemented in long product rolling mills to quickly simulate metallurgical processes and plastic flow and to optimise the technological parameters of the rolling process of these products. To achieve the assumed objectives of the project, research was conducted within six groups of tasks, including both the development of material models, as well as source codes for the simulation of metallurgical processes and the implementation of the developed computer platform in industrial conditions.
The task of Łukasiewicz Research Network – Upper Silesian Institute of Technology) was the development of material models and conducting microstructural testing using advanced testing techniques. The results of the research conducted at the Institute were implemented at CMC Poland – one of the consortium members in the project.
