International Projects
Optimisation through enhancement and utilisation of residual stress minimising process strategies (PROTEUS-RS)
Title:
Optymalizacja jakości wyrobów długich poprzez poprawę i wykorzystanie strategii procesowych prowadzących do minimalizacji naprężeń wewnętrznych
Acronym:
PROTEUS-RS
Start: 01.06.2020 /End: 31.10.2024
Co-financing for Łukasiewicz-GIT:
- from EC: PLN 769,576.00
- from PMW funds: PLN 438,991.00
Total project value: PLN 8 201 122,00
Executive Agency: European Commission (EHDEA), Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Programme name: Research Fund for Coal and Steel, Co-financed International Projects (PMW)
Consortium:
- VDEH-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GMbH [Coordinator]
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Mannstaedt GmbH
- Sidenor Investigacion y Deasrrollosa
- Łukasiewicz Research Network – Upper Silesian Institute of Technology
Project Manager:
Roman Kuziak, PhD, DSc, ProfTit
Tel.: 32 2345 241
E-mail: roman.kuziak@git.lukasiewicz.gov.pl
Objective:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
ŁUKASIEWICZ Research Network – Upper Silesian Institute of Technology is carrying out a project, co-financed from the State Budget/Co-financed International Projects/, “Optimisation through enhancement and utilisation of residual stress minimising process strategies” 899455-PROTEUS-RS-RFCS 20.
Hot rolling, cooling, and straightening processes cause a significant increase in internal stresses of long products. This, in turn, causes their deformation as a result of the relaxation of the aforementioned stress in further processing into final products. Despite the high importance, the quantitative characteristics of these effects are still unexplored, and their assessment is fraught with a high degree of uncertainty.
This project aims to minimise the uncertainty associated with the stress relaxation effect by introducing progressive technologies developed on the basis of a combination of hybrid process models (physical and statistical) with a virtual production line model (digital twin), allowing for numerical simulations of production conditions and predicting material properties, including the level of eigenstress.
The PROTEUS project will enable reliable and well-documented processing of long products with the assumption of minimising the participation of the straightening process, reducing waste and scrap, and customer complaints.
