Lightweight automotive construction with steel

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-MB-937

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1993

End date 30 June 1996

Funded under

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

Total cost € 199 500,00

EU contribution € 119 700,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE
Portugal

Objective

It is intended to prove that light weight automotive construction is feasible using steel by investigating the application of modern micro-alloyed steels, dual-phase steels and bake-hardening steels in terms of shaping, joining and tailored blanking, by improving the torsional stiffness of body-in-white structures through the use of hybrid continuous joints, by developing weldable organic preprimer coated sheet and through an in-depth evaluation of the concept of welded tailored blanks.

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

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Coordinator

INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Estrada Nacional 249 - Km 3 Cabanas - Leiao (TagusPark) ; 2781 OEIRAS ; Portugal
• Total cost: No data