1. CASR Winter
Research seminar
Advanced Research for
Advanced Steels

2. CASR CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STEELS RESEARCH
CASR Winter seminar
Advanced Research for Advanced Steels
CASR CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STEELS RESEARCH
Current issues
Pentti Karjalainen

3. CASR –

4. CASR: 2017 – 2018 CASR organization Genome of steel
Professor of Practice
Activity during 2017

5. CASR – Research Units today

6. Profiling universities

7. GENOME OF STEEL – PHYSICS FOR STRONG, TOUGH AND SUSTAINABLE STEEL

8. GENOME OF STEEL –
PHYSICS FOR STRONG, TOUGH AND SUSTAINABLE STEEL
Until end of 2021
3.3 M€ (Academy of Finland and University of Oulu)
To understand:
the formation and role of non-metallic inclusions
phase transformations in steels and
how they can be accurately predicted and controlled during processing.
To integrate experimental and theoretical physics knowhow and infrastructure
with the steel regime.

9. CASR – tenure track New tenure track positions established in:
The field of the fracture mechanisms of high-strength steels
Tenure + post doc
The inclusion metallurgy
Materials physics with emphasis on synchrotron radiation and steel research
Using TEM in material science (course org. by Ass. Prof. Puspendu Sahu)

10. CASR – Professor of Practice
The first in technology in the University of Oulu (58 at Aalto Univ.)
Mr Tero Frondelius, Wärtsilä Oyj
Started (4 years?)
Supervising doctoral theses on fatigue design
(engineering mechanics)

11. CASR – members activity
2017: PM 19 (+12) MPE 21 (+6)

12. CASR – members activity
Doctoral dissertations 2017
Vuokila A CFD modeling of auxiliary fuel injections in the blast furnace tuyere-raceway area.
Visuri V-V Mathematical Modelling of Chemical Kinetics and Rate Phenomena in the AOD Process
Iljana M Iron ore pellet properties under simulated blast furnace conditions. Investigation
on reducibility, swelling and softening.

13. CASR – members activity
PM 11

14. CASR – research
Tekes:
Continuation of DIMECC projects in FLEX and StEFA
FLEX-like project ?

15. CASR – Research Units tomorrow ?
CASR Nordic
CASR FI, FTE > 200
LUT
TUT/TWC
VTT
Aalto ÅA
Lapin AMK
Dimecc
SHY
… more
KIMAB LU
MEFOS
KTH
… more
SSAB OK
Ovako
Outotec
Wärtsilä?
… more
CASR OU, FTE 100