ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to Dr. A.P SINGH(DGM and I/c.
Flat Rolling) under guidance of whom I have successfully completed my project
within the given time frame( i.e from 1st June 2009 to 30th June 2009.In addition of
excellent guidance, he provided a lot of help, inspiration and line-up for different
laboratories for testing. I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to Dr.
Damodar Roy( DGM & I/c, Rolling Technology Division) who helped me at
every step and motivated me a lot inspite of day to day workload on me. I would
like to convey my sincere gratitude to Dr. S.K.Sen (DGM & I/c, PMG ) for both
theoretical and practical guidance provided by him at every step.

I would also like to extend my thankfulness to other lab officers and expert
technicians namely, Shri John Guria, Shri S.N Hoda, Basant Kujur, Shri R.K
Jha, Sri M Maheshwary, Shri S.S. Singh, Sri BN Prasad,Sri J.Kujur,Sri KP
Mahato,Sri M.Kullu, Sri U.Singh, Md. M.Rahman and Md. Nayeem Akhtar
who helped me in completion of this project.

Sanjay Kumar Shrivastav

Junior Officer (Flat Rolling )
Rolling Technology Division
Pl. No. ER-1134 ( I 000666)
RDCIS ( SAIL ) Ranchi-2