Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the technological centre Eurecat, proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials with the objective to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was conducted as part [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European NewAIMS project which is to develop strategies and technologies to obtain cost-effective high-performance steel through metal 3D printing with a process which will integrate additive manufacturing with a custom-designed steel alloy. “NewAIMS seeks to combine a well-tailored steel chemical composition and a non-conventional time-temperature process for 3D printing,” [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is leading three European projects with a total budget of €6.9 million which optimise a range of steel qualities to improve its properties and uses in the automotive, aeronautics and other sectors while seeking to reduce defects, manufacturing costs and carbon dioxide emissions during manufacture to further decarbonise industry. The initiatives [...]
The Eurecat Manresa technology centre has today showcased innovative testing methodologies for the design and optimal application of high-performance metallic materials which are of particular interest in the automotive, transport and other industries and have been developed as part of the European ToughSteel, Crystal and MiPre projects. Solutions have been unveiled to assess and determine critical properties in this [...]
The European Flexcrash project, funded with €4 million by the European Union under its Horizon Europe programme, is to develop flexible and hybrid manufacturing technology using high-strength green aluminium alloys to produce adaptive crash-tolerant vehicle structures. The project addresses the main challenges facing the automotive industry including compliance with greenhouse gas emission regulations and [...]
Barcelona has today hosted the closing event in the European Sharework project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, which has rolled out a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industrial manufacturing processes by tapping artificial intelligence and process data analysis. The project has developed flexible software made up [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus-based Biotechnology Division is running a study with post-menopausal women to better shape future nutritional strategies which help to prevent menopause-associated symptoms and illnesses. The hormonal changes which take place at this stage lead to vulnerability to serious illnesses such as an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cognitive impairment and [...]
The new requirements of electric mobility ‘are changing the way to design cars to resist collision’, and hot stamping technology for the manufacture of light sheet metal components with high mechanical performance ‘means that in the event of an accident, there’s no intrusion towards the passengers and the battery’, explained Daniel Casellas the Eurecat technology [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is organising, together with Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, the biannual CHS2 conference, the leading international event in hot stamping technology for the manufacture of lightweight sheet metal components with high mechanical performance, with special interest for industries such as automotive to reduce vehicle weight, in light of the challenges arising [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has developed and patented two innovative technologies to predict the behaviour of sheet metal in the forming process and in use and also to evaluate its fatigue strength and fracture toughness more quickly and cost-effectively. This is especially significant when it comes to high-strength steels and aluminium alloys used to build lighter vehicles. [...]
