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Welding energy pipes – much more than joining metals
OCAS is in charge to provide a fully documented submerged arc welding catalogue for selected energy pipe products. Priority is being given to heavy gauge linepipe grades, with chemistries complying...
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Trapping hydrogen
Over the past few years, OCAS has developed a great deal of competence in terms of methodology, knowledge building, modelling and understanding the hydrogen embrittlement phenomenon. Plus, OCAS...
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Hexavalent chromium-free alternative for hard chrome plating within REACH
From studies done in 2012, it became clear that OCAS’s REACH-compliant chrome plating process offered important advantages: the final coating is still hard chrome, which is what the market demands, but...
View ArticleSteelyHydrogen 2018
OCAS is currently preparing the 3rd edition of the International Conference on Metals and Hydrogen SteelyHydrogen2018.Former editions were mainly focused on hydrogen and steel. Based on feedback, we...
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Process optimisation thanks to smart modelling
Finite element analysis (FEA) is widely used in multiple domains of scientific research and successfully applied in many customer applications. Also in the support and development of bar rolling at...
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Wire rod in good shape
From customised cast to tailor-made wireThe OCAS hot rolling lab mill has been adapted for wire rod rolling to produce small quantities of tailor-made wire material for R&D purposes. Straight...
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MSC has held a succesful second structural integrity seminar
INFRABEL held the keynote speech in which an overview of their ageing assets was given. For Infrabel, targeted monitoring is being carried out on steel bridges, rail tracks and catenaries, which...
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Computer simulation of pipeline burst fracture helps preventing catastrophic...
One of the most dangerous failure scenarios is associated with the pipeline running fractures, damaging long pipeline sections and resulting in rapid releases of large amounts of the inventory. For...
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First symposium on combinatorial metallurgy confirms its high potential
To maintain this strategic industrial strength, it is imperative that the scientific and industrial communities continue to make new metallurgical discoveries. OCAS currently has some running projects...
View ArticleCOMMET2017 – First symposium on combinatorial metallurgy confirms its high...
COMMET2017 – First symposium on combinatorial metallurgy confirms its high potential OCAS and its partner Flamac jointly organised the first international symposium on “Accelerated exploring of novel...
View ArticleStructural Integrity seminar
OCAS and its MSC partners have the pleasure to invite you to their seminar on Structural integrity, May 24th, 2018 (PM). Structural integrity evaluations serve to judge the acceptability of detected or...
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Building on strong foundations
OCAS has longstanding experience in the field of welding, covering a wide range of materials (but with a focus on steels), applications and welding processes. For example, the introduction of many...
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You never walk alone
In order to ensure that the additive manufacturing related services which we are developing respond to real markets needs as well as to maximise their potential impact in the ecosystem, we have chosen...
View ArticleOCAS connects the dots at BiR&D’s 10th anniversary
OCAS connects the dots at BiR&D’s 10th anniversary More than 200 persons from industry, universities and research centres celebrated the 10th anniversary of Belgian Industrial Research &...
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OCAS takes tailor made alloy processing to the next level
Exploring the processing of ever more complex alloys Combinatorial screening of structural alloys Back in 2011, as member of AccMet – an EU FP7 large-scale integrating collaborative project on the...
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