Invited Resource Only Strategic Equipment bid for Rapid Alloy Processing

邀请仅资源战略设备投标快速合金加工

• 批准号: EP/V007548/1
• 负责人: Claire Davis
• 金额: $ 8.07万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV007548%2F1
• 关键词: Invited; Resource; Only; Strategic; Equipment

To be globally competitive the UK steel industry must rapidly respond to the increasing demand for steel (in the UK this is expected to grow to £6.0bn by 2030, from £3.8bn in 2018) by supplying improved products (higher strength, lower cost, improved formability etc). Current lead times for new product and process development are far too long to enable capture of new market opportunities, with high development costs as full trials can often require 100's tonnes production that are not sold. There is a need to accelerate this development via the use of small-scale development programmes and innovative thinking both within and external to the steel companies. A rapid alloy processing (RAP) facility has been developed at the Advanced Steel Research Centre (ASRC) in WMG, that comprises casting (1 - 7 kg), hot and cold rolling, heat treatment, mechanical and microstructural characterisation, along with bespoke systems to investigate processability issues. A number of steel grades produced via the RAP facility have been benchmarked against industrial production and properties to ensure robustness of the process. The RAP facility compliments existing very small lab scale (10-100's grams) production of new alloys, either by experimental combinatorial fabrication or computational alloy design processes, by providing an opportunity to carry out more representative scale processing and explore often overlooked issues of processability in a rapid manner before committing to expensive pilot plant and production trials. The RAP facility is therefore an enabler to developing new thinking and translating novel concepts to practical benefit. It is being used to support internal research projects in the ASRC and a growing number of external activities with universities, industries and SMEs. This proposal is to fund a full time technician to work on the RAP facility to support research and industry / business use; this is required as some equipment needs two people to operate (for example hot rolling) and the specialist nature of hot metal processing means that a trained operator is necessary to deliver external requests. Growth in use of the facility will generate income which will allow us to sustainably fund the position to continue to support users and deliver quality results.

为了具有全球竞争力，英国钢铁行业必须通过提供改进的产品（更高的强度，更低的成本，更好的成形性等）来快速应对不断增长的钢铁需求（在英国，预计到2030年将从2018年的38亿英镑增长到60亿英镑）。目前新产品和工艺开发的准备时间太长，无法抓住新的市场机会，开发成本很高，因为全面试验往往需要100吨的生产量，而这些生产量并没有销售出去。需要通过利用钢铁公司内部和外部的小规模发展计划和创新思维来加速这一发展。WMG的高级钢研究中心（ASRC）开发了一种快速合金加工（RAP）设备，包括铸造（1 - 7 kg）、热轧和冷轧、热处理、机械和微观结构表征，沿着定制系统以研究可加工性问题。通过RAP工厂生产的许多钢种已根据工业生产和性能进行了基准测试，以确保工艺的稳健性。RAP设施通过实验组合制造或计算合金设计过程，通过提供机会进行更具代表性的规模加工并在投入昂贵的中试工厂和生产试验之前以快速的方式探索经常被忽视的可加工性问题，补充了现有的非常小的实验室规模（10-100克）的新合金生产。因此，区域行动方案设施有助于发展新思维，并将新概念转化为实际利益。它被用于支持ASRC的内部研究项目以及与大学，工业和中小企业开展的越来越多的外部活动。本提案旨在资助一名全职技术人员在RAP设施上工作，以支持研究和工业/商业用途;这是必需的，因为某些设备需要两个人操作（例如热轧），而铁水处理的专业性质意味着需要一名经过培训的操作员来满足外部要求。使用该设施的增长将产生收入，这将使我们能够可持续地为该职位提供资金，以继续支持用户并提供高质量的结果。

项目成果

Registration between DCT and EBSD datasets for multiphase microstructures

多相微观结构的 DCT 和 EBSD 数据集之间的配准

• DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2023.113228
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Materials Characterization
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Ball J

A scale up study on chemical segregation and the effects on tensile properties in two medium Mn steel castings

两种中锰钢铸件化学偏析及其对拉伸性能影响的放大研究

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.12729
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Kwok T

A Scale-up Study on Chemical Segregation and the Effects on Tensile Properties in Two Medium Mn Steel Castings

• DOI: 10.1007/s11661-021-06533-w
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
• 作者: T. Kwok;C. Slater;X. Xu;C. Davis;D. Dye