Fatigue strength of spot-welded stainless steel components for railway carriages under operational loading conditions

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-MB-406

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 € 784 500,00

EU contribution € 470 700,00

Coordinated by

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA
Italy

Objective

The analysis of the fatigue life of welded stainless steels under different loading conditions and the influence of the sheet thickness will be used to derive design recommendations. Results of the fatigue tests in terms of specimen specific endurable loads and experimental determination of residual stresses will be used to compute endurable local stresses using Finite Element Analysis which can directly be used for design evaluation of spot welded components & structures produced from these materials.

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)

• F4 - Thin sheets

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via di Castel Romano 100/102 ; 00128 ROMA EUR ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung eV (FhG)

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bartningstraße 47 ; 64289 Darmstadt
• Total cost: No data