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Item Development of Beta Titanium Alloys by Spark Plasma Sintering(2017) Lagos, M.A.; Amigo, A.; Vicente, A.; Agote, Iñigo; EXTREMATBeta titanium alloys have attracted considerable attention especially for orthopedic implants applications owing to their unique combination of low elastic modulus, superior bio-corrosion resistance and excellent biocompatibility. However, the PM production of these alloys is difficult due to the significant amount of refractory metals (Ta, Mo, Zr, Nb, etc). This work presents a processing route combining mechanical mixing of elemental powders (pre-alloying) and Spark Plasma Sintering in order to obtain fully dense materials with homogeneous microstructure. Two different compositions (TiMo and TiNb) with high amount of alloying elements were developed. The alloys were sintered at temperatures between 1100 and 1250ºC. The phases were evaluated by X-ray diffraction and diffraction of backscattered electrons, appreciating its mechanical properties by micro-hardness and bending tests. A transformation to Beta Titanium is obtained predominantly with a small grain size, and micro-hardness in the order of forged materials.Item Fast method for slag characterization during ladle furnace steelmaking process based on spectral reflectance(2017) Vicente, A.; Macaya, Inaki; Picon, Artzai; Arteche, Jose AntonioHyperspectral imaging reflectance analysis has proven to be successful in online characterization applications such as material recycling [1], soil composition analysis [2], quality control [3] among others. The measurement of a narrow spectral reflectance of specific materials allows the use of feature extraction and regression machine learning techniques to classify the material into a specific group or estimate some chemical parameters under controlled conditions. A method for Fast slag composition estimation on the ladle furnace process, together with the steel composition information from in-process steel spectrometers, would allow implementing thermo-dynamical equilibrium models to optimize the use of steel additives to obtain a target steel grade at the optimal additive cost. In this work, we present a fast method for slag characterization which is based on the indirect analysis of the spectral reflectance of the slag. This method is based on a normalization procedure to remove the specular component of the spectra, a calibration method to correct lighting conditions and a spectral feature extraction algorithm combined with a SVr (Support vector regression) based regression method. A system consisting of a hyperspectral imaging system and a calibration method has been constructed. The system has been trained with more than 600 real slag samples taken from ladle furnace at different ArcelorMittal steel plants. In order to cover the whole slag oxidation process, three slag samples were taken at each heat. Each sample was analysed by XRF spectroscopy and the regression system was trained to map the values for CaO, SiO2, .S, FeO, MnO Al2O3, MgO, P2O5 obtaining composition errors below 10% on the calibrated ladle furnace oxidation process. The estimated slag composition was used to feed a thermo-dynamical equilibrium model that, together with the steel composition from the in-process spectrometer estimates the required additives for the specific steel grade. This showed lower additive costs than manual additive estimation with equivalent final steel quality.