Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Walter Salvatore - Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale
Cold-formed steel is increasingly adopted in logistics warehouses, where heavy goods are handled automatically on a 7/24 basis. Fatigue related problems are causing large economic damages in this type of structures, due to their “dynamic” and “consistent” loading conditions.
Despite this fact, in European standards, fatigue design concepts for cold formed steel is completely missing. Answering to an industrial need, FASTCOLD aims to develop fatigue design rules for cold formed steel structural details, and classify such details according to their fatigue strength (as for hot-rolled steel in EN1993-1-9). Some studied details are of general applications, in view of Eurocode implementation.
Coordinator
FINCON CONSULTING ITALIA SRL (Italy)
Other participants
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Italy)
- RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (Denmark)
- UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (Portugal)
- UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS (Spain)
- PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS (Greek)
- SCL INGEGNERIA STRUTTURALE DI STEFANO CALZOLARI SILVANO LACAVALLA STEFANO SESANA INGEGNERI ASSOCIATI (Italy)
- SHELTER ANONYMOS VIOMICHANIKI ETAIRIA EPENDYSEON KAI KATASKEVON (Greek)
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA (Italy)
- FRITZ SCHAFER GMBH (Denmark)
- EUROPEAN RACKING FEDERATION (United Kingdom)
Start date: 1/07/2017
End date: 31/01/2021
Duration: 42 months
Project cost: 2.873.935,80 euro
Project funding: 1.724.361,48 euro
Unipi quota: 203.326,29 euro
Call title: RFCS-2016
Unipi role: Partner
Project website https://fastcold-rfcs.com/