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  FAST-Tunn, a research program to develop steel quality for hard rock TBM-cutters

  There is a need to compensate the development of the TBM-technology with new cutter steel to allow an excavation method that enables the machine capacities to be fully utilized at the rock-steel interface. Therefore, a major research project has been launched in Norway at the University in Trondheim (NTNU) together with the research foundation SINTEF. The project is named FAST-Tunn, Future Advanced Steel Technology for tunneling and has a value of 30mill NOK financed by the Norwegian Research Council (35%) and the industrial partners. The research program includes major industrial partners like Robbins and BASF, world wide present in their fields. Steel companies like SCANA Steel Stavanger and BMS Steel in Norway provides their indepth competence in steel production and technology, whilst Babendererde Engineers provides data logger system to care take a huge amount of data from the testing at the TBM's. The Norwegian Rail Way Authorities is also participating in the project to view it from the owners perspective.

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