NAME Multidisciplinary platform for the smart manufacturing and monitoring of materials
In this asset, a series of home-designed and made lab equipment and sensors, and the knowledge of several disciplines are integrated. This enables to develop the next aspects: • Modelling of materials and processes • Monitoring of the material through NDT-electromagnetic techniques and correlation of the signals with its state • ICT applied to the monitoring of materials • Data processing and management to control and optimize the process The objectives are to provide the tools for diagnosis of the strategies to improve the materials and to implement more efficient and safer quality control systems.
FIELDS OF APPLICATION
Coatings and Surfaces solutions
Design and development of materials
Manufacturing processes
MOST OUTSTANDING EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS
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Commercial software
Finite elements, thermodynamic/kinetic calculation programs and home-made models for materials and processes
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Conventional and induction thermal treatment laboratory
Conventional and induction thermal treatment laboratory
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Equipment for the simulations of thermo-mechanical processes
Torsion test machine that allows simulating multipass thermo-mechanical sequences and cooling conditions
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Metallurgical models
Metallurgical models for steel transformation processes
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NDT sensors
NDT sensors developed in Ceit-IK4 based in electromagnetic techniques
SERVICES OFFERED BY THE ASSET
Hybrid models for the material and process
Development of hybrid models for the material and process that combines metallurgical models with data arising from heterogeneous sources (industrial practice, sensors, mechanical testing, etc) for optimizing the robustness of the process and achieving more consistent properties. These models will be applied on-line to control the process. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as conventional and induction thermal treatments.
Material monitoring
Analysis and interpretation of the monitoring signals (sensorics) based on the metallurgical knowledge as the way to assess the state of the material in some processing stages or in-service behavior. Quality control of the product. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as thermal treatments. Also for service behavior and monitoring of remaining life.
Metallurgical models of the material
Metallurgical models that aims at predicting the evolution of the material through all the hot working process or thermal treatment and final mechanical properties of the material. Oriented to the steel sector, in hot forming processes as well as thermal treatments.
Simulations of the thermo-mechanical processes
Simulation of the industrial process through lab equipment that allows analyzing relevant aspects such as the ductility of the material, the processing windows, the choice of the optimized sequence or the limitations of the material. Oriented to the steel sector, in the production and transformation as well as thermal treatments.
ENTITY MANAGING THE ASSET
Contact person:
Denis Jorge Badiola
djbadiola@ceit.es