Assent No 14/78 given by the Council pursuant to Article 55 (2) (c) of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community to enable the Commission to grant financial aid from the levies provided for in Article 50 of that Treaty for iron and steel technical research projects



Official Journal C 204 , 26/08/1978 P. 0002



ASSENT No 14/78 given by the Council pursuant to Article 55 (2) (c) of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community to enable the Commission to grant financial aid from the levies provided for in Article 50 of that Treaty for iron and steel technical research projects The research projects will be in the following fields: Iron mines Longwall advancing in Lorraine (complement). Direct reduction and pig iron (a) Sinter: production of high-quality sinter at a sinter plant without bedding. (b) Blast furnace: characteristics of the charge in large blast furnaces; flow control in blast furnace tuyères. Steelworks (a) Casting - solidification: industrial operating test on an electromagnetic launder in a continuous casting plant. (b) Electric steelworks: mathematical model to optimize the electric steel-making process; investigation of the high voltage system and line feedback effects of arc furnaces. Rolling mills and processing Coiling temperature control in wide strip mills. Optimum design of rolling mill drives. Improvement of loop lifter control in hot strip mills. Further development and testing of flatness and strip tension control systems in cold rolling. Improvement of the cold rolling of A1 or Si killed steels. Roll bending of heavy plate mills. Optimum management of soaking pit batteries. Control of decarburization and scaling in industrial reheating furnaces for hot rolling. Measurement Inspection and repair of surface defects of slabs in hot condition. Automatic recording and memorizing of surface defects in cold slabs for the development of data prior to ordering an automatic spot scarting machine. Gauging product length in long product mills. Condition monitoring of production machinery in steelworks. Ultrasonic examination of rolled products, particularly heavy plate - development of a prototype machine. Examination for surface defects on billets and wire by Eddy-currents. Acoustic emission defects location and grading in welded structures. Properties and service performance (a) Weldability: crack sensitivity, deformation and fracture behaviour of the heat affected zone of weldments in high-strength fine- (b) Formability: spot welding of high-strength deep-drawing steels and properties of weldments; new continuous reheating cycle for tin-plate; resistance spot weldability of steel sheet; suitability for cold forming. (c) Construction steels: plastic deformation in the y + á range for various ordinary steels (d) Fracture: elasto-plastic fracture toughness testing and assessment methods. (e) High temperature steels: cavitation and fracture in creep resisting steels. (f) Marine technology: offshore structures : tubular joint stress analysis (complement). (g) Light structures: investigation into the criteria of European domestic comfort and the technical obstacles to industrialized building systems (complement); possibilities for the production of steel windows using stamping processes. (h) Alloy and special steels: research programme on losses in electrical sheets; effect of sulphur and sulphide shape on the mechanical properties of machinability of alloy steels; basic properties of grain oriented electrotechnical steels; influence of sulphide shape and its effect on the mechanical properties and machinability of special construction steels. The Council gave the assent requested by the Commission on 3 August 1978. For the Council The President K. von DOHNANYI