Mechanical Engineering Minor Thesis Project: Morphometric Database

This minor thesis project investigates the special aspects of translating tool morphometric information into a structured database, focusing on the rolling process and pass design for long products. The project addresses the need to extract useful knowledge from statistical analyses of industrial records, considering the enormous quantity of rolled products and passes. It aims to harmonize heterogeneous industrial records defined by two-dimensional technical drawings, presenting a method for symmetrical passes and a case study. The project will explore issues such as trend splitting in structured databases and utilize landmark-based studies and geometric morphometrics to analyze procedures, including GPA for removing variations. The research justifies the project's viability by exploring how these morphometric studies help in the analysis of procedures, including the use of procrustes shape coordinates for statistical analysis of geometric morphometric data. The project will also use different methods based on traditional morphometric that includes multiple regression for translation of morphometric information into structured database.

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Minor Thesis Project Brief
Student Name:
Mohan Sai Kandula
Student ID Number:
110260096
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Title: Special aspects of translating tool morphometric information into structured database
Problems & Significance
A central agenda in rolling process is design of the series of passes used to form the product gradually,
starting with a cuboid and finishing with one of many shapes of long products. Bearing in mind the
enormous quantity of rolled products, large counts of passes and their repetitions used across
numerous campaigns, it is broadly accepted that useful knowledge about this technique of material
processing can be extracted by means of statistical analyses of industrial records.
In the traditional times, the quantitative description provided by morphological shape could be
combined with statistical form of analysis based on variation of shape. The software used for gaining
morphometric information helps in providing visualizations and explorations with large datasets. The
new form of morphometric approach also preserves the landmark configurations throughout the
representation of statistical results.
Expected Outcomes
An overview of published information about pass design in long-product-rolling systems will be
presented.
First step is to harmonize otherwise heterogenous industrial records where the rolling passes are
defined by two dimensional technical drawings. In this thesis, a method for such propitious translation is
explained on the example of symmetrical passes, and a case study is presented. Issues such as trend
splitting that emerge when analyzing the structured database will be explored.
The traditional form of approaches based on morphometric typically apply the process of statistical
techniques into a broad range of measurements that include distance ratios, distances, areas, angles
and volumes. With this approach, the traditional angles and inter-landmark distances could be able to
calculate the landmark coordinates.
Justification of the project using literature
This project is considered to be viable as the landmark-based studies based on morphometric studies
help in the analysis of procedures. Different other kind of procedures could be included with the help of
this form of analysis.
A certain procedure known as GPA can be considered as important as it would help in removal of
variation based on digitization of orientation, location and scale. This kind of procedure also helps in the
superimposing of objects in a common system of coordinate.
In case of morphometric analysis, there is a certain set of visualizing of results based on analysis based
on statistics. The project based on statistical analysis of geometric morphometric could be performed
with the help of procrustes shape coordinates.
Different other methods based on traditional morphometric that includes multiple regression could be
useful for translation of morphometric information into structured database. The new form of methods
have matured on a continuous basis. Scientists are in the process of using different kind of approaches

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to investigate the shape structure in various areas of research. Hence, the use of geometric
morphometric data could be considered as input into sophisticated analyses that would also deserve
further form of attention.
References (5 key references)
[1] good book on hot steel rolling for structural sections
[2] a manuscript (paper)
[3] Spuzic “Roll Pass Design” https://rpd3.weebly.com/
[4] Spuzic “Basic concepts in roll pass design” http://tiny.cc/q8ur9y
[5] Abhary K, Mayer W, Spuzic S “TIME Report: ata-Driven Hot Rolling Optimisation”
University of South Australia 2019
[6] Ghislanzoni L.H, Lione R, Cozza P and Franchi L, 2017. Measuring 3D shape in
orthodontics through geometric morphometrics. Progress in orthodontics, 18(1), p.38.
[7] Klingenberg C.P, 2016. Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric
morphometrics. Development genes and evolution, 226(3), pp.113-137.