Abstract: In this study, carried out by fka, the hood of the VW Golf V is taken as an example to analyze the potential of a hybrid construction of aluminum and steel. Structural stiffness, oil canning and dent resistance behavior are analyzed using Abaqus/Standard. With the objective of reducing the total hood weight, the performance of the hood is compared to reference values of the series pro...

The Steel Founders’ Society regularly surveys member companies to determine the typical practices used in steel casting production. SFSA has also promoted the participation of member companies in the Performance Benchmarking survey available each year to members of participating manufacturing associations. It is useful to take a look across the results of the past several years and to reflect o...

We describe the application of simulation modeling to estimate and improve quality and productivity performance of a steel cord manufacturing system. We describe the typical steel cord manufacturing plant, emphasize its distinguishing characteristics, identify various production settings and discuss applicability of simulation as a management decision support tool. Besides presenting the genera...

A steel plate material Hardox can be used also as a core design material for the production of ballistic barriers or traps at the shooting ranges for small arms. The article deals with the results of experiments with shooting weapon systems of a high ballistic performance and with Finite Element Method simulation of the projectile penetration upon the steel plate using the software Ansys Autody...

Zinc plating is widely used to protect steels against corrosion. However, the possibility of a high environmental risk for zinc has been recently discussed among advanced countries and more environmentally-friendly substitutes are required urgently. Therefore, monitoring zinc concentration changes on metallic materials such as steel is very important. We chose to measure zinc concentration chan...

In a laboratory study, decolourisation of real textile dyeing wastewater by modified solar photo-Fenton (Steel scrap/ H2O2 ) process under irradiation with sunlight was examined. Batch experiments were conducted to determine optimal operating conditions .The optimal doses of H2O2 and steel scrap were 15 mL/L and 1 g/L, respectively at pH 3.Colour removal of 89% was obtained under optimum condit...

D. Burchart-Korol, M.Kruczek, Central Mining Institute, Katowice, Poland M. Pichlak, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland The main goal of the study was to present the most significant technological innovations aiming at reduction of greenhouse gas emission in steel production. Reduction of greenhouse gas and dust pollution is a very important aspect in the iron and steel industry. Ne...

The optimal material processing in steel industry is difficult because of the multi-constituent and multiphase character of the commercial steels, variety of the possible processing paths, and plant specific equipment characteristics. This paper shows implementation of the genetic programming approach for crack presence modeling after rolling. The data (110 samples covering 7 different steel gr...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges worldwide. Its most severe impacts may still be avoided if efforts are made to transform current energy systems. The notion of climate change mitigation refers to the reduction of the rate of climate change via management of its causal factors such as the emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion, agriculture, land use changes, cem...

F. Tehovnik, J. Burja, B. Arh, Institute of metals and technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, M. Knap, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia Nozzle clogging is a common problem in the production of continuously cast Al-killed steels. Clogging occurs when there are solid inclusions in molten steel at casting temperatures. SENs (Submerged entry nozzle...