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Resumo: O avanço da tecnologia de laminação incrementou as solicitações sobre os cilindros laminadores, e, portanto, o desenvolvimento de materiais mais resistentes ao desgaste, visando aumento da produtividade do laminador e melhor qualidade superficial dos produtos laminado, em especial tiras a quente. Como estudo de desgaste em campo é muito complexa devido à influência de diversos mecanismos e muitas vezes combinados entre si, os ensaios laboratoriais têm se mostrado como um meio mais fácil para estudar os materiais em serviço, além de auxiliar o projeto novas ligas. Dessa forma, foi proposto um ensaio de desgaste abrasivo puro para um tribômetro Plint & Partners, modelo TE-079, com o intuito de simular condições de utilização das últimas cadeira do trem acabador de um laminador de tiras a quente. Para sua validação foram utilizados três materiais: o ferro fundido de coquilhamento indefinido, o ferro fundido branco de alto cromo e o ferro fundido branco multicomponente, os quais apresentam comportamento conhecido em serviço. Esses materiais foram submetidos a uma caracterização metalográfica, microdureza e topografia de desgaste. Os resultado obtido mostraram-se coerentes com a prática observada na aplicação real, ou seja, reproduziram o comportamento de desgaste no laminador, sendo válida a proposta do ensaio tribológico. / Abstract: The progress towards mill technology has increased the demand on the rolling mill rolls, and therefore, the development of wear resistant seekink productivity of the rolling mills and better superficial quality of the rolled products, especially in the hot strip mill has also increased. As the wear study in field is very complex due to the influence of several mechanisms wish are usually combined amongst themselves, the labs test have shown an easy way to study the materials in service, besides aiding the project of new leagues. In that way, a pure abrasive wear test was developed tribômetro Plint & Partners, model TE-079 with the intent of simulating the job conditions in the hot strip mill finishing chairs. For the validation three materials were used: an indefinite chill cast iron, a high chrome cast iron and a kind of multicomponent white cast iron, which presents knowm behavior in service. Those materials were submitted to a metallography characterization, microhardness measurement and wear topograpy observation. The obtained results were shown coherent with the practice observed in the real application, and then became possible a prediction of that behavior for the materials projects developed at laboratory, being valid the proposal of the rehearsal tribológico. / Orientador: Valdir Alves Guimarães / Coorientador: Amilton Sinátora / Banca: Gustavo Aristides Santana Martínez / Banca: Enrico José Giordani / Mestre

Orientador: José Geraldo Trani Brandão / Banca: Fernando de Azevedo Silva / Banca: Paulo Cesar Ribeiro Quintairos / Resumo: Este estudo mostra as variáveis dinâmicas do processo de fundição centrífuga de cilindros de laminação, que são utilizados para realização de conformação em gaiolas de laminação. O objetivo desse estudo é analisar as principais variáveis dinâmicas do processo de fundição centrifugada de cilindros de laminação e estudar as relações entre estas variáveis. Os processos de fundição centrífuga podem ser classificados em fundição centrífuga vertical e horizontal. Para a fundição centrífuga vertical, são elaborados os envelope de carga de dois modelos de máquinas centrífugas verticais existentes na literatura, onde se consegue determinar o tipo de rolamento de apoio utilizado na máquina. Para a fundição centrífuga horizontal, são estudadas variáveis como rotação, razão G, "aspect ratio", espessura e vibração de uma amostra de aproximadamente 1.000 cilindros de ferro fundido, aço rápido e aço alto cromo. Desta amostra, verifica-se que a causa de sucateamento de parte dos cilindros não está ligada a adoção de variáveis dinâmicas incorretas no processo. Também é visto que diferentemente do alumínio, os cilindros de ferro fundido, aço rápido e aço alto cromo exigem maior rotação quanto maior a espessura da casca fundida. / Abstract: This paper shows the dynamic variable of centrifugal casting process of rolling mill rolls which are used to compress the metal in rolling mill process. The main goal is to analyze the main dynamic variable and to study its relation in the process. There are two type of centrifugal casting: horizontal and vertical. For the horizontal centrifugal casting, two load envelopes are done, being possible to determine the bearing model used on the vertical centrifugal casting machine. For the horizontal centrifugal casting, variable such as rotating, ratio G, aspect ratio, thickness and vibration are studied to a sample of 1,000 casting rolls made of casting iron, high speed steel and high chromium steel. From this sample, it is seen that the cause of scrapping is not related to incorrect adoption of dynamic variables in the process. It is also verified that differently from the aluminum, cast iron, high speed steel and high chrome steel rolls demand greater speed with the increasing the shell casting thickness. / Mestre

The advance of biological research promotes the emerging of new methods and solutions to answer the biological questions. This thesis describes several new molecular tools and their applications for the detection of genomic and proteomic information with extremely high sensitivity and specificity or simplify such detection procedures without compromising the performance. In paper I, we described a general method namely super RCA, for highly specific counting of single DNA molecules. Individual products of a range of molecular detection reactions are magnified to Giga-Dalton levels that are easily detected for counting one by one, using methods such as low-magnification microscopy, flow cytometry, or using a mobile phone camera. The sRCA-flow cytometry readout presents extremely high counting precision and the assay’s coefficient of variation can be as low as 0.5%. sRCA-flow cytometry readout can be applied to detect the tumor mutations down to 1/100,000 in the circulating tumor cell-free DNA. In paper II, we applied the super RCA method into the in situ sequencing protocol to enhance the amplified mRNA detection tags for better signal-to-noise ratios. The sRCA products co-localize with primary RCA products generated from the gene specific padlock probes and remain as a single individual object in during the sequencing step. The enhanced sRCA products is 100% brighter than regular RCA products and the detection efficiency at least doubled with preserved specificity using sRCA compared to standard RCA. In paper III, we described a highly specific and efficient molecular switch mechanism namely RCA reporter. The switch will initiate the rolling circle amplification only in the presence of correct target sequences. The RCA reporter mechanism can be applied to recognize single stranded DNA sequences, mRNA sequences and sequences embedded in the RCA products. In paper IV, we established the solid phase Proximity Ligation Assay against the SOX10 protein using poly clonal antibodies. Using this assay, we found elevated SOX10 in serum at high frequency among vitiligo and melanoma patients. While the healthy donors below the threshold.

This thesis analyses the world rolling stock market. It was written on claim of SKF Group. It contains the information about segmentation, status and development of the market. Moreover there is also basic information about transport and railway technology market.

Recrystallisation annealing, a repeated heat treatment between different stages of cold rolling of martensitic chromium steel strip, is successful when neither high rolling forces nor wear of the working rolls occur during the subsequent cold rolling. Mechanical properties as tensile strength, yield, elongation or hardness have been, by tradition, the criteria that described the quality of the annealing process. In recent years, the development of the measurement equipment in the rolling mills and of the instruments for material investigations has accentuated more and more the role played by the microstructural properties in the evaluation of the heat treatment. Two microstructural characteristics of the degree of annealing are, firstly and most important, the recrystallisation degree, and, secondly, the secondary carbide density. The sample manufacturing and heat treatment, modelling and microstructure investigations by light optical- (LOM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) described in this article were carried out at Sandvik Materials Technology’s R&D Department and Bell Furnace Line in Sandviken, Sweden, while microstructure investigations and evaluation by scanning electron microscopy with field emission gun (FEG-SEM) and electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD) were done at the Corrosion and Metals Research Institute (KIMAB) in Stockholm, Sweden. The first part of this work shows that, in contrast to the traditional methods LOM and SEM, that use chemical etching for the preparation of the samples, EBSD can successfully characterise recrystallised structures in annealed martensitic chromium steels. Unlike conventional microscopy with LOM and SEM, EBSD is able to reveal the grain geometry, as well as to separate and identify the different phases in this kind of steels (ferrite, M23-, M6-carbides). Important parameters such as grain size, particle size and recrystallised fraction can be measured with high accuracy. This information can be used to understand, evaluate, control and even predict the recrystallisation annealing of martensitic chromium steel. The second part of this work presents how the results from microstructure description by EBSD can be directly used in relatively simple empirical models for determination of recrystallisation degree as function of the annealing parameters and the deformation history. EBSD was applied to evaluate the degree of recrystallisation in a series of annealing tests, with the purpose to model recrystallisation temperature in two types of martensitic chromium steel strip, a traditional one and one alloyed with molybdenum, cold rolled with different amounts of reduction and annealed with different temperatures, soaking times and heating rates. The empirical quadratic models were built with Umetrics’ software for experimental design, MODDEÒ 8.0 and they defined the recrystallisation degree (limits for LAGB and HAGB were set to 1.5° and 7.5° for the first grade and 2.5° and 10° for second one) and the secondary carbides density as functions of annealing temperature, soaking time and cold reduction (the factor heating rate was removed as nonsignificant). To be observed that these empirical models were fit much better for the recrystallisation degree than for the secondary carbides density. The modelling work described above, together with the implementation of online physical temperature models in the bell annealers may lead to an increased productivity in the production plant by shortening the annealing cycle and minimising scrap and thus to an economical gain of ca 1,5 MSEK per year at Sandvik Materials Technology.

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The objective of the hot rolling mill is to transform slabs of steel into thin strips which conform to specific dimensional and metallurgical customer requirements. High performance and flexibility in the operation is required due to strict customer demands, variable market conditions, and the drive for continuous improvement. Historically human schedulers have performed the scheduling and sequencing tasks, however it is not a reasonable expectation that they consider all the complex objectives required in optimal production of a hot mill. Therefore, there are significant opportunities for improvement in this area through the application of mathematical optimization models and solution algorithms. This work presents a set of models and a solution algorithm for optimal scheduling and sequencing of production within a hot rolling steel mill. The models and algorithms presented within this thesis are specifically developed for ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s Hot Strip Mill in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. First, a graph theoretic representation of the production block is developed along with an asymmetric travelling salesman formulation of the sequencing problem. A slab transition cost function comprised of the hot rolling process objectives is formalized. The objective of the optimization is to generate a complete block sequence which minimizes the cost of transitions between slabs thus minimizing the overall cost of production. The Concorde exact solver is leveraged for the sequencing problem. Second, the scheduling of slabs from inventory into blocks is considered in addition to sequencing. A methodology for slab clustering is defined. The novel concept of width-groups is developed and a heuristic algorithm is devised to calculate an objective for the MILP slab scheduling model. The objective of the scheduling optimization is to construct a set of blocks which minimize deviation from the calculated width-group design. A revised sequencing model, updated to reflect the relaxations enabled by the width-group design, is formulated. Industrial production and offline trials show that the proposed scheduling-sequencing framework outperforms the human scheduler in all critical performance metrics for both scheduling and sequencing. A conservative estimate of the reoccurring monetary benefits available from use of the proposed scheduling-sequencing optimization framework is greater than $1.2M CAD per year. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)