Improvement in constitutive equations for forming of austenitic stainless steel sheets

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-174

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1999

End date 30 June 2002

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 759 000,00

EU contribution € 455 400,00

Coordinated by

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA
Italy

Objective

In Europe nearly 500 kT/year of austenitic sheet steels are cold formed to produce components. The tendency of final users to decrease the thickness of the sheet, to produce more complicated shapes in one step and to increase productivity make the forming often critical. Improvements are also possible through the optimisation of both, tooling design and pressing operation parameters. Aim of this project is the development of a constitutive equation able to describe the behaviour of austenitic stainless steel sheets at strains typical of complex forming operations, including that of strain induced martensite transformation.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• F3 - Special and alloy steels

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 (2)

FACTORIA DE ACERINOX

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 11370 LOS BARRIOS (CADIZ)
• Total cost: No data

TNO INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

Netherlands

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Schoemakerstraat, 97 ; 2628 VK DELFT
• Total cost: No data