FINOCAS Activity Report 2020-2021

Our dedicated OCAS task force offers a versatile skill set in welding, corrosion, fatigue and fracture. We are confident we can add value by supporting our customers in asset integrity management and de-risking of capital-intensive projects. Filip Van den Abeele & Christoph Gerritsen

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Flanders Metals Valley, climate-neutral and circular metallurgical cluster in Flanders

List of publications 2020-2021

Knowledge building

The strength of combining instruments

Accurate precipitate analysis made easy

Microscopy service centre: our analytical tools

Solution-driven operators using an industry-oriented approach

Virtual manufacturing at the customers’ service

Correlative APT-TEM analysis of precipitates

Extend your lab with the OCAS microscopy centre

How image digitalisation and data mining help to improve the surface quality of hot rolled steel

HSLAi: When HSLA meets AI

Machine learning takes microstructure-based material design to the next level

Introduction

Preparing future metallic coatings with IMpACT

Going beyond steel: Exploring the processing of ever more complex and higher melting temperature alloys

Lab synthesis of customised materials: continuous extension of our offer

Using combinatorial methodology to get a better understanding of the intermetallic precipitation strengthening

Assessment thermo-mechanically control rolled-plate capability

Cold-rolled high-strength steels offer keeps growing

Hot-rolled high-strength steels brought to the next level

Decarbonisation of steelmaking: the challenge

XCarb™ green steel offer

Preparing hot-rolled steels for the future

Serving as technical support lab to production plants

Introduction

Durable technical support

Magnificent Magnelis®

Corrosion prediction models

Wear testing: experimental and numerical approach

Keeping tight connections

Cryogenic tests with CO2 in the Tubular Testing System

Fast response prevents failure

Structural health monitoring renders industrial assets smart

Challenging design criteria for improved fatigue performance

OCAS delivers accelerated fatigue testing equipment

Better understanding of fatigue performance

Electrical steels to power vehicle electrification

Bonding varnish, a universal solution

Fatcor: corrosion fatigue for offshore applications

High strength meets high protection for solar

Introduction

Identification of electrical steel market needs through market intelligence analysis

Spray technology for more sustainable offshore wind towers

In-house welding wire development for the new saline-resistant weathering steel

New saline weathering grade to reduce maintenance costs of offshore structures

Steel solutions for liquified natural gas

Automated fracture surface analysis

Introduction

Avoiding long-running cracks in natural gas pipelines

Sustainable steel solutions for CO2 transport and storage

Modelling brings toughness improvement to welded natural gas transmission pipelines

Where failure analysis and electrochemistry meet

Steel for the hydrogen economy

Lifetime prediction of subsea bolts in natural seawater

Introduction

Inspection of coatings on bridges and risk analysis for repair

Investment porfolio

Burning ambition to prevent microbiologically influenced corrosion in fire extinguish pipe systems

IMSystems

An ocean of opportunities

WIZATA

Value the future, upgrade the past

Ensuring sustainable endurance by research

KEYSTONE

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