New approaches to non-destructive characterisation of microstructure & applications to on-line control of steel quality (NANDACS)

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-294

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2001

End date 30 June 2004

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 1 142 350,00

EU contribution € 685 410,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE
France

Objective

Increasing the productivity while maintaining a consistent quality is considered as one of the most important technical goals in the steel industry. As the process may require closed loop control management, real-time knowledge of the microstructure becomes essential. Existing evaluation systems have shown a number of limitations in their use, which could be overcome with recent developments such as laser ultrasonic or new X-ray diffraction inspection devices. This project aims at capitalising these recent developments and evaluating the respective potential of these developments for on-line determination of microstructures in different environmental conditions.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• T4 - On-line control

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Immeuble "PACIFIC", La Défense 7 11/13 Cours Valmy ; 92800 PUTEAUX ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

CORUS UK LIMITED

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 15 Great Marlborough Street ; W1F 7AS LONDON
• Total cost: No data

SWEDISH INTITUTE FOR METALS RESEARCH

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Drottning Kristinas väg 48 ; 114 28 STOCKHOLM
• Total cost: No data