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Compact Strip Production Plant
Partners in this project
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SMS Demag AG
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Plociennik -
Institute for Metal Forming (IBF), Aachen University
Prof. Reiner Kopp -
Center for Computing and Communication (CCC), Aachen University, Virtual Reality group
Dr. Torsten Kuhlen
Status
Finished in December 2002
Project description
By order of SMS Demag AG, one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality metallurgical plants, we have created a 3D functional model of a compact strip production plant, which is intended to be used for presentation and marketing purposes. The compact strip production (CSP) technology is a new process that significantly shortens the production workflow from liquid phase steel to the finished hot-rolled strip. The complete production process takes place continuously and in one heat. The achievable strip thickness is about 1 mm. The CSP plant consists of two casting machines, two reheating furnaces with a swivel ferry, a 6-stand rolling mill, a cooling line and a downcoiler. The genuine plant is about 500 m long and its particular sections are placed in separate factory buildings.
In contrast to ordinary presentation methods, that usually result in a pure animation, our model enables an interactive exploration of the plant in a virtual environment. The functionality includes the rotation of the ladle furnaces, material cross-cutting at the pendulum shear, opening and shutting of the furnace doors, swivelling of the furnaces and rotating of the mill work-rolls. The covers of the furnaces may be faded away to enable the insight into the process inside them. The way of the material is visualized from the liquid phase casting, through the whole plant, up to the downcoiled strip. The strip geometry follows the casting and milling process, the strip color represents the temperature conditions.
The model was tested on a PowerWall, a CAVE, and a half-round projection system by TAN Projektionstechnologie and presented at CEBIT 2001 as well as at the 16th Aachen Steel Colloquium.
Videos
- Compact strip production process MPEG-1 (37 MB), MPEG-4 (6 MB) , Streaming
- Interactive exploration of a CSP plant on large immersive displays MPEG-4 (4.7 MB), Streaming
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Gallery
Compact strip production process
Visualization on large immersive displays (TANORAMA and CAVE) at TAN demonstration center, Düsseldorf
Visualization on the HoloBench at CCC (Photos by Peter Winandy)
Presented at the 16th Aachen Steel Colloquium