High strength long products with improved toughness and fatigue resistance

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-346

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2002

End date 30 June 2005

Funded under

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

Total cost € 927 120,00

EU contribution € 556 272,00

Coordinated by

CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI SPA
Italy

Objective

In the transportation industry there is a continuous search for engineering steels and their processing that allow reducing the weight and production cost of automotive components. Additionally to the strength and toughness criteria, stringent fatigue requirements have to be satisfied since many components undergo cycling stressing during service. A novel steel design and processing approach to meet these demands will be developed on the ferrite morphology and the reduction/elimination of pearlite. Further, non-traditional microstructures containing acicular ferrite will be introduced.

Programme(s)

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

Topic(s)

• D3 - Physical metallurgy of rolling and finishing

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 (3)

MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Max-Planck-Strasse 1 ; 40237 DÜSSELDORF
• Total cost: No data

SIDENOR I+D

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Barrio Ugarte s/n ; 48970 BASAURI (VIZCAYA)
• Total cost: No data

VOEST-ALPINE AUSTRIA DRAHT

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bahnhofstrasse 2 ; 8600 BRUCK A.D. MUR
• Total cost: No data