Presenting Fatigue4Light outcomes during a webinar on lightweight aluminium manufacturing technologies for automotive applications

Presenting Fatigue4Light outcomes during a webinar on lightweight aluminium manufacturing technologies for automotive applications Sergio Jiménez, Fatigue4Light project’s coordinator and Associate Lecturer from the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), participated in the webinar “Lightweight Aluminium Manufacturing Technologies for Automotive Applications”, organised by the FLAMINGo project in collaboration with the European Federation for…

A high cycle fatigue numerical framework for component-level virtual fatigue testing: Application to a light-duty vehicle lower control arm

A high cycle fatigue numerical framework for component-level virtual fatigue testing: Application to a light-duty vehicle lower control arm Engineering Structures, Volume 311 (2024) by Luis Antonio Gonçalves Junior; Sergio Jiménez; Alejandro Cornejo and Lucia Gratiela Barbu (CIMNE –  Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria; Polytechnic University of Catalonia – UPC); Michele Maria Tedesco…

High cycle fatigue life estimation of punched and trimmed specimens considering residual stresses and surface roughness

High cycle fatigue life estimation of punched and trimmed specimens considering residual stresses and surface roughness International Journal of Fatigue, Volume 186 (2024). by David Gustafsson; Erik Olsson (Luleå University of Technology); Sergi Parareda (Eurecat Technology Centre) and Rémi Munier (ArcelorMittal France)   Shear cutting processes have a detrimental effect on fatigue of high strength…

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Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40%

Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40% The Fatigue4Light EU-funded project has 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%, obtaining a zero-emission vehicle chassis while ensuring good fatigue performance.…

Celebrating the final General Assembly of Fatigue4Light

Celebrating the final General Assembly of Fatigue4Light On January 15th, the Fatigue4Light consortium met to celebrate the final project’s General Assembly in CIMNE, project’s coordinator, facilities located in Barcelona. Representatives from each partner entity joined the meeting to present, review and evaluate the results achieved during the project’s execution.  The Fatigue4Light project, started last February…

Stellantis CRF presents Fatigue4Light during the congress “Innovation in materials for electric mobility”of the Italian Metallurgy Association

Stellantis CRF presents Fatigue4Light during the congress “Innovation in materials for electric mobility” of the Italian Metallurgy Association The Fatigue4Light project was presented in the congress “Innovation in materials for electric mobility“, organised by the Italian Metallurgy Association (AIM) and celebrated last 10th of October in Bologna (Italy).  Michele Tedesco, Global responsible for metals and anticorrosion…

Presentation of Fatigue4Light during the SALEMA webinar on aluminium for lightweight and sustainable mobility

Presentation of Fatigue4Light during the SALEMA webinar on aluminium for lightweight and sustainable mobility Project partners from CIMNE, the Fatigue4Light coordinator, participated in the webinar “The Circular Metal for Future Mobility: aluminium for lightweight and sustainability”, organised by the SALEMA project on Friday 6th of October, 2023. During the session “Exploring other relevant EU projects”,…

Eurecat hosts the 30M Fatigue4Light consortium meeting

Eurecat hosts the 30M Fatigue4Light consortium meeting The Fatigue4Light consortium met to celebrate the 30M project’s General Assembly celebrated on September 22nd in Eurecat facilities located in Manresa (Barcelona, Spain). Representatives from each partner entity joined the meeting to present the results achieved during these 30 months of project’s execution. Additionally, they planned the next…

Simulation of metal punching and trimming using minimal experimental characterization

Simulation of metal punching and trimming using minimal experimental characterization Journal of Materials Processing Tech, 321 (2023) by D. Gustafsson, E. Olsson (Luleå University of Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Division of Solid Mechanics); S. Parareda (Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Unit of Metallic and Ceramic Materials, CIEFMA, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya); L.…