Key materials characteristics for formed parts include strength, thickness, and corrosion protection. Tailored products provide opportunities to place these attributes where they are most needed for part function, and remove weight that does not contribute to part performance.| AHSS Guidelines
Predicting the press forces needed initially to form a part is known from a basic understanding of sheet metal forming. Different methods are available to calculate drawing force, ram force, slide force, or blankholder force. The press load signature is an output from most forming-process development simulation programs, as well as special press load monitor.| AHSS Guidelines
Automakers contemplating whether a part is cold stamped or hot formed must consider numerous ramifications impacting multiple departments. Here, we'll focus on grade options and corrosion protection.| 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
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Using Life Cycle Assessment, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) mobility solutions like WorldAutoSteel’s flaghip Steel E-Motive (SEM) program have the potential to contribute to a reduction in GHG emissions, helping to achieve these global targets and specific policy objectives.| AHSS Guidelines
Tensile property characterization of mild and high strength low alloy steel (HSLA) traditionally was tested only in the rolling direction and included only yield strength, tensile strength, and total elongation.| AHSS Guidelines
During a tensile test, the elongating sample leads to a reduction in the cross-sectional width and thickness. The shape of the engineering stress-strain curve showing a peak at the load maximum (Figure 1) results from the balance of the work hardening| AHSS Guidelines
Martensitic steel grades provide a cold formed alternative to hot formed press hardening steels. Not all product shapes can be cold formed. For those shapes where forming at ambient temperatures is possible, design and process strategies must address the springback which comes with the high strength levels, as well as eliminate the risk of delayed fracture.| AHSS Guidelines
AHSS products have significantly different forming characteristics and these challenge conventional mechanical and hydraulic presses. The dramatically higher strength of these new steels result in higher forming loads and increased springback.| AHSS Guidelines
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This study found that a 1.6 mm thick hot stamped PHS1500 B-pillar had similar performance as a B-Pillar cold stamped from 3.1 mm thick mild steel, representing a 42% weight savings.| AHSS Guidelines
Tube hydroforming creates complex shapes by using internal pressure to expand a tube against a die cavity. Frame rails, engine cradles, roof rails and bows, instrument panel beams, cross members, pillars, and seat frames are among the parts created using hydroforming.| AHSS Guidelines