Toughness of welded joints

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-KA-122

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1992

End date 30 June 1995

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines (ECSC) for the programmes of technical steel research and of steel pilot/demonstration projects, 1991-1995

Total cost € 469 500,00

EU contribution € 281 700,00

Coordinated by

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
Germany

Objective

The project is aimed at examining the mechanical properties of welded joints in steel grades FeE 335 TM (up to 100 mm wall thickness) and FeE 460 TM (up to 80 mm wall thickness) produced with little or no pre-heat for a range of welding energy input and cooling rates. Mechanical properties will be obtained from tensile and Charpy-V impact tests. Toughness properties will be obtained from fracture mechanics testing methods, and failure behaviour of small-scale welded components in the elastic-plastic and fully plastic regime will be determined.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEELRES 8C - Medium-term guidelines (ECSC) for the programmes of technical steel research and of steel pilot/demonstration projects, 1991-1995

Topic(s)

• F1 - Mechanical characteristics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Kopernikusstraße 16 ; 52056 Aachen ; Germany
• Total cost: No data