ToughSteel Event
Academic workshop – The Essential Work of Fracture method in 2022 – An essential method for sheet metal technologies
ToughSteel is a European project funded under the frame of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) programme. The main aim of ToughSteel is the dissemination and valorisation of fracture toughness as a material property to rationalise crack-related problems in Advanced High Strength Steels.
In this academic workshop, we aim at presenting the latest advances made by the academic community on the understanding of, i.e., the link between the microstructure or sheet thickness and the Essential Work of Fracture (EWF). The workshop also covers examples of applications where the EWF is used and presents how modellisation can help to improve the understanding of the physical mechanisms affecting the EWF.
21st October 2022
9.00h – 14.00h CEST
HYBRID (via Teams)
UCLouvain, Euler Building, room A.002 (ground floor)
Avenue Georges Lemaitre 4,
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Event materials
Video recording
Presentations
Agenda
Moderator: Pierre Bollen, Senior Researcher, UCLouvain
9:30 – 10:30 – Analysis of the sensitivity of IF steel to localization of plasticity using the EWF methodology
Eva Schmidova, Professor, University of Pardubice
10:30 – 11:30 – The essential work of fracture as a guide towards higher performance steels
Thomas Pardoen, Professor, UCLouvain
11:30 – 12:30 – From the micro-mechanics to large-scale ductile plate tearing: an engineering modeling approach
Kim Nielsen, Associate Professor, TU Denmark
12:30 – 13:00 – Final Questions & Answers and Closing
Thomas Pardoen, Professor, UCLouvain
13:00 – 14:00 – Closing lunch