ASSENT No 16/75 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 to iron and steel technical research projects in the following fields:

IRON ORE MINES

Trials of winning high-silica ore in longwall faces using cutter-loaders

Trials with the Jeffrey continuous miner in calcareous ore

DIRECT REDUCTION

New liquid phase direct reduction process

Adaptation of the Novalfer fluidized-bed reduction process of the bulk processing of prereduced ores

Practical possibility of prereducing oxidized pellets to sponge iron

BLAST FURNACE

Solid fuels for production of iron pellets

Relations between the morphology and quality of sinter in the blast furnace

Investigation of important metallurgical relationships in the sintering of iron ores

Injection of reformed gas in the blast furnace

Investigation of burden movement and the consequent gas pressure drop

Optimisation of the pig-casting machine process

STEELWORKS

Preparation of a data programme in the field of metallurgical thermochemistry

Electrochemical deoxidation and desulphurization on a semi-industrial scale

Production of a generator shaft with a barrel diameter of 1 900 mm by welding two parts together by the partial electro-slag process

Development of novel slag systems for E.S.R.

Segregation in wide-end-up ingots

Electromagnetic stirring of a continuous slab casting in the mould

Electromagnetic stirring of steel during solidification with particular reference to continuous casting

Automation of oxygen steelmaking plant

Continuous oxygen refining process with solid charge

ROLLING MILLS AND PROCESSING

Optimization of slab-reheating

Control of product width in wide-strip mills

Thermal variations in roll camber in a tandem cold rolling mill

Thermal variations in roll camber in a hot strip mill

Adaptive set-up of a tandem cold rolling mill

Thermal variations in roll camber in a tandem cold rolling mill

Mathematical model for the prediction of metal flow in steel undergoing hot forming processes

Vibration and friction in a cold tandem mill

MEASUREMENTS

Ultrasonic holography for the inspection of thick sections

Improvement of the surface quality of hot-rolled strip by automatic inspection on the strip mill

New industrial equipment for the detection of surface defects by Eddy currents

New developments in direct-reading optical emmission spectrometry

Development and implementation of methods for the routine spectrochemical analysis of non-metallic substances

Application of the glow discharge source for the determination of metalloids

Estimate of boron in solid solution in steel and its effects on bainitic and martensitic hardenability

Study of the preparation of pearls for X-ray fluorescence

Isoformation of powder-samples for X-ray spectrometry

Detection of surface defects on sections and hot semi-finished products

USED PROPERTIES

(a) Weldability

Hot embrittlement in the heat-affected zone of welds in austenitic steels

Possibilities and limits to the development of new structural steels

(b) Corrosion

Corrosion and metallurgical properties of Zn-Al based binary and complex alloys

(c) Formability

Definition of the surface morphology of cold reduced sheet

Surface quality of stainless steel sheet

Cold forming (joint programme)

(d) Fatigue

Influence of the degree of purity and production conditions on the behaviour of low-alloy steels when exposed to vibratory stress

Deformability of boiler-making steels under alter

Fatigue strength and fatigue limit of welded joints in hollow sections

(e) Brittle fracture

Design conditions for avoidance of brittle fracture

(f) Heat treatment

Cracking in the stress-relieving of ferritic steels

Relationship between strength, wall thickness and fracture behaviour in component-simulating test pieces of high strength steels in the welded and stress-relieved states

(g) Electrical sheet

Basic properties of grain-oriented electrotechnical steel

Losses in electrical sheet

PHYSICAL METALLURGY

Thermo mechanical treatment of weldable medium-carbon steels

Simulation of the metallurgical phenomena occurring during hot rolling of strip

Ratio of concentrations of precipitating elements in steel

Galvanizing of steel wires

UTILIZATION

Use of steel in housing

Composite steel-concrete beams

Steel components connected to concrete members in buildings

Floor and roofing structures for industrialized buildings compounded with shape resisting unities

Cold-rolled steel sections (joint programme)

Ultimate static strength of welded lattice girder joints in structural hollow sections

Buckling of thin-wall hollow sections axially loaded

MISCELLANEOUS

Granulated blast furnace slag for road construction

In a letter dated 13 March 1975, the Commission of the European Communities requested the assent of the Council, pursuant to Article 55 (2) (c) of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, to enable it to grant financial aid from the levies provided for in Article 50 of that Treaty to these various iron and steel research projects.

At its 340th meeing held on 5 May 1975, the Council gave its assent as requested by the Commission.

For the Council

The President

G. FITZGERALD