Work plan

The project is divided into seven work packages and each work package (WP) is divided into several tasks. The major objectives of each WP are described below:

WP1: Project management and coordination

This WP focuses on general project management and communication & dissemination activities.

WP2: Steel design and selection via small-scale route

This WP focuses on life cycle analysis (LCA) of reference steels, design of new steels and selection for pilot-scale experiments.

WP3: Pilot-scale manufacturing and process development of uncoated material

The selected steels from WP2 will be manufactured in pilot-scale and further investigated for their processes, properties and microstructures.

WP4: Development of coating process

This WP aims at developing zinc-based coating processes of the selected steels and characterization of their microstructures and the mechanical properties.

WP5: Optimization of warm forming procedure of coated material

This WP aims at understanding the various factors influencing liquid metal embrittlement (LME) phenomenon in the studied coated steels.

WP6: Evaluation of the performance of the warm formed materials and optimization of resistance spot weldability (RSW)

In this WP, the performance of the developed materials will be studied by investigating their behaviours for crash, corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement and resistance spot weldability.

WP7: Warm forming of prototype parts with optimized processing parameters and final life cycle analysis (LCA)

Finally, in this WP prototypes will be made and evaluated for their final in-service properties and life cycle analysis.