{"id":115790,"date":"2021-07-02T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=115790"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:19:08","slug":"toughsteel","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/en\/portfolio-items\/toughsteel\/","title":{"rendered":"ToughSteel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valorisation, dissemination and awareness about the concept of fracture toughness<\/strong>, as well as its extension to other applications in the steel sector and to other industries working with Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ToughSteel<\/strong> project involves and engages the main stakeholders around the steel sector with the objective to promote, disseminate and transfer the know-how acquired in previous projects about the use of fracture toughness as a tool to address cracking problems in forming and in-service performance of AHSS. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The main objectives<\/strong> of the project are:<\/p>\n

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  • Collect, organize and analyse the fracture toughness data<\/strong> measurements (from previous RFCS projects and open literature) to create a database<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • Provide an industrial guideline to describe methodologies of fracture toughness evaluations in sheet metals,<\/strong> based on the research developed in previous RFCS projects, for a more efficient fracture and crashworthiness prediction in different industrial applications.<\/li>\n
  • Develop different communication and dissemination actions aimed to promote the project and the application of fracture toughness as a design material property<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • Organise webinars, academic and industrial workshops, online courses and educational programs<\/strong> to transfer the knowledge acquired.<\/li>\n
  • Standardisation activities<\/strong> to facilitate the acceptance and utilisation by the market of the developed solutions.<\/li>\n
  • Organise \u201cProblems Solving\u201d sessions<\/strong> focused on case-studies to show how fracture toughness can be used to understand and solve crack-related industrial problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The different activities promoted by the project are addressed to a wide audience including academic institutions, steel producers, part-makers, and end-users of sheet metal products.<\/p>\n

    ToughSteel consortium is formed by Eurecat, which coordinates and participates<\/strong> in the project through the Metallic and Ceramic Materials Unit<\/a> and the Communication and Digital Marketing Unit, together with Lule\u00e5 Tekniska Universitet<\/a>, the Catholic University of Louvain<\/a>, Centro Ricerche Fiat<\/a>, the Jernkontoret<\/a>, UNESID \u2013 Uni\u00f3n de Empresas Sider\u00fargicas<\/a> and UNE<\/a> as a standardisation organism.<\/p>\n