{"id":249420,"date":"2021-07-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/fatigue4light-optimising-part-design-and-boosting-lightweight-materials-deployment-in-chassis-parts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:15:28","slug":"fatigue4light-optimising-part-design-and-boosting-lightweight-materials-deployment-in-chassis-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/fatigue4light-optimising-part-design-and-boosting-lightweight-materials-deployment-in-chassis-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatigue4light: Optimising part design and boosting lightweight materials deployment in chassis parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fatigue4light.eu\/about-fatigue4light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Fatigue4light\"><strong>Fatigue4Light<\/strong><\/a> aims to develop<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong>lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of Electric Vehicles<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>to enhance weight reduction compared to current solutions and increase vehicles&rsquo; safety due to reduced sprung mass.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions will be based on the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong>introduction of specially developed materials solutions<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>with high fatigue performance, the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong>development of new computer modelling<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>with high fatigue prediction accuracy and<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong>new experimental methodologies that reduce the testing time<\/strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span>for new materials.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/old.cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/Research\/Fatigue4Light_4-1500x750.png\" alt=\"Fatigue4light\" width=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Affordability including critical raw materials for EU assessment, and sustainability of the proposed solutions, will be enhanced based on the application of an eco-design approach supported by the application of <span>Life Cycle Assessment&nbsp;(<\/span>LCA) and <span>Life Cycle Cost (<\/span>LCC) studies.<\/p>\n<p>Fatigue4Light is<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong>one of the first projects tackling weight reduction in automotive chassis parts<\/strong>, which is a necessary step to further progress in electric vehicle lightweighting, as reduction of vehicle weight impacts positively in CO<sub>2<\/sub><span>&nbsp;<\/span>emissions, electric vehicle autonomy, driveability and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatigue4Light aims to develop&nbsp;lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of Electric Vehicles&nbsp;to enhance weight reduction compared to current solutions and increase vehicles&rsquo; safety due to reduced sprung mass. Solutions will be based on the&nbsp;introduction of specially developed materials solutions&nbsp;with high fatigue performance, the&nbsp;development of new computer modelling&nbsp;with high fatigue prediction accuracy and&nbsp;new experimental methodologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Fatigue4light: Optimising part design and boosting lightweight materials deployment in chassis parts - CIMNE","description":"Fatigue4Light aims to develop &nbsp; lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of Electric Vehicles &nbsp; to enhance weight reduction compared to curr"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[434],"class_list":["post-249420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-news","tag-chassissustainabilityeuropeanenergy-and-environmentrdi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}