Internship Proposal

COMPANY : CONTACT:

CRM Group Claudia COFANO

Research Center of Metallurgy Fonction: Program Leader
Tél : +32 477 96 23 12
E-mail : Claudia.Cofano@crmgroup.be
Adresse :
CRM GROUP
LIEGE Science parc
Rue Bois Saint Jean 8
B-4102 Ougrée (Belgium)

1. COMPANY

CRM Group offers R&D and technology solutions to its numerous industrial members, focusing on
process & product developments and their applications from an innovation and value creation
perspective. The CRM Group activities and expertise deal with the whole value chain of metals and
associated materials, including the development of advanced steel solutions for Construction, made
of high added value steel products.
https://www.crmgroup.be/en

2. INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION

Title : Design and optimization of a floating PV steel system

Background : The usage percentage of the advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) sheets is remarkably
increasing in the last years since AHSSs lead to enhance the performance of the designed solutions in
combination with the weight reduction.

Today, as the automotive industry started some decades ago, also the construction market is
producing lighter and more cost-efficient structures.

Structures are designed to maximize as much as possible the use of the material properties and
design capabilities. So the demand for accurate predictions in the design phase regarding material
behaviour has greatly increased including the analysis of damage and material failure aspects.

In addition, the importance of taking into account the manufacturing chain has became
straightforward since each manufacturing process step has more or less effects on the material
properties or behaviour of the product and thus may influence the following steps leading to the final
product.

This results to an increasing interest in effectively closing the gap between forming and in use
performance analysis.

AC&CS scrl
Advanced Coatings and Construction Solutions scrl
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Key objectives : The goal of this thesis/internship is to be able to consider the effects of
manufacturing process in steel construction applications and to use them to better predict the
performance of design under in use load conditions.

Main tasks :
▪ Bibliographic survey.
▪ Definition of manufacturing process/es to be investigated, mainly cold forming technics.
▪ Development of a FE model able to reproduce the manufacturing process.
▪ Set up a test campaign for the FE model validation.
▪ Estimation of FE results improvement.
▪ Reports and presentations describing the work and the conclusions.

Candidate requirements :
▪ Background in studies of aerospace/mechanical/material/civil engineering.
▪ Knowledge of FEM program (LS-Dyna, Abaqus) will be preferred.
▪ Knowledge of 3D CAD design software (Solidworks) will be preferred.
▪ Fluent in English, both speaking and writing.
▪ Independent and results oriented working style.
▪ Team spirit and open minded personality.

Working environment
The position will be at the CRM offices in Sart-Tilman (Liège).

Working period
The internship contract is for a 6 months period.

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