Research database

The spoke will create a network of research centers and laboratories, large-scale demonstration environments, full-scale prototypal applications to achieve the following goals: • Identify alternatives to traditional materials with a view to vehicles lightweighting, ensuring high standards of safety and reliability, with attention to sustainability, recyclability and recovery • Define more efficient and sustainable production and transformation processes, including additive manufacturing technologies and new joining technologies, as well as integrated assessment modelling • Define new heat treatment and surface modification strategies for increased mechanical, tribological, and durability performance • Develop design methodologies based on structural optimization aimed at lightweight design • Realization of new recycling supply chains in cascade of innovative lightweight materials