Automakers contemplating whether a part is cold stamped or hot formed must consider numerous factors. This blog covers some important considerations related to welding these materials for automotive applications.| AHSS Guidelines
Steel, and specifically advanced high strength steel, satisfies automotive industry requirements for safety, emissions, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, durability, and affordability. Affordability The automotive industry has adopted light-weighting as a key part of their greenhouse gas reduction strategy. This strategy, however, must be executed in an affordable manner. Key reasons to deploy advanced high strength steels […]| AHSS Guidelines
Manufacturers embrace Advanced High Strength Steels as a cost-effective way to satisfy functional and regulatory requirements. The following are just a few examples where automakers have attributed improved performance and lightweighting due to the use of these advanced steels. KIA EV9 The Kia EV9, Kia’s first three-row electric flagship SUV, is based on the Electric […]| AHSS Guidelines
The Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) process is often used as a model to explain the fundamental concepts behind most resistance welding processes. If the sheets are steel, the resistance to the flow of current of the sheets will be much higher than the copper electrodes, so the steel will get hot while the electrodes remain relatively cool.| AHSS Guidelines
Resistance welding processes represent a family of industrial welding processes that produce the heat required for welding through what is known as joule (J = I Rt) heating.| AHSS Guidelines
Roll Forming takes a flat sheet or strip and feeds it longitudinally through a mill containing several successive paired roller dies, each of which incrementally bend the strip into the desired final shape. The incremental approach can minimize strain localization and compensate for springback.| AHSS Guidelines
Car body-in-white (BIW) structures, such as pillars and rails, are increasingly made of complex stack-ups of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) for vehicle lightweighting to achieve improved fuel efficiency and crashworthiness. Complex stack-ups comprise more than two sheets with similar/dissimilar steels and nonequal sheet thickness.| AHSS Guidelines
There is an increased need to join magnesium alloys to high-strength steels using resistance spot selding to create multi-material lightweight body structures for fuel-efficient vehicles.| AHSS Guidelines
Urbanization and waning interest in vehicle ownership point to new transport opportunities in megacities around the world. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) – characterized by autonomous, ride-sharing-friendly EVs – can be the comfortable, economical, sustainable transport solution of choice thanks to the benefits that today’s steel offers. The WorldAutoSteel organization is working on the Steel […]| AHSS Guidelines
Roll forming is no longer limited to producing simple circular, oval, or rectangular profiles. Advanced cross sections highlight some profile designs that aid in body structure stiffness and packaging space reductions.| AHSS Guidelines
