Automakers face conflicting constraints when designing new body structures: With escalating concerns about human-induced green-house gases, global legislators have passed increasingly stringent vehicle emissions regulations, with even more aggressive targets planned for the coming years. Lighter weight body structures promote reduced vehicle emissions. Fuel price increases lead to greater consumer sensitivity to vehicle fuel economy. […]| AHSS Guidelines
A consortium of 35 global sheet steel producers representing 22 countries began the UltraLight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB) program in 1994 with the goal of designing a lightweight steel auto body structure that would meet existing and proposed safety and performance targets. The body-in-white (BIW) unveiled in 1998 validated the design concepts of the program, […]| AHSS Guidelines
Vehicle programs must balance performance, safety, fuel efficiency, affordability and the environment, while maintaining designs that are appealing to customers. Use of higher strength steels allows for a reduction in the sheet metal thickness and in turn vehicle mass. The increased ductility offered by Advanced High Strength Steels facilitates part consolidation also contributing to lower weight […]| 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
Citation: A-79. Auto/Steel Partnership (2005). “Lightweight Front End Structure Phase 1 & 2 Final Report,” Available from https://a-sp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Lightweight-Front-End-Structures.pdf Related Posts Filter by Post type Post Page Category Citations homepage-featured-top main-blog Blog Sort by Title Relevance U-13 Citation U-13. 8 J-26 8 U-15 8 J-26 Citation: 8 Current Vehicle Examples Manufacturers embrace Advanced High Strength […]| 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
steel Bubble chart. steel Banana diagram. Steel strength ductility diagram—it’s been called a lot of things over the years. Now called the steel Global Formability Diagram, a new 2021 version is available for download and use. In addition in this article, we define Advanced High-Strength Steels, Ultra-High-Strength Steels and 3rd Generation steels.| AHSS Guidelines
Our most recent Autonomous vehicle engineering project, Steel E-Motive, was designed to unveil and meet the challenges of future autonomous vehicles.| 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
H-66. G.T. Halmos (Editor) Roll Forming Handbook (1st ed.). CRC Press, 2005. doi.org/10.1201/9781420030693. Related Posts Filter by Post type Post Page Category homepage-featured-top main-blog Blog Production Managers Tool & Die Professionals Steel Grades AHSS 1stGen AHSS 3rdGen AHSS 2ndGen AHSS Metallurgy Lower Strength Steels Conventional HSS Roll Forming Sort by Title Relevance Cold Stamped or […]| AHSS Guidelines