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AHSS Insights Answers “What is 3rd Gen AHSS?”
One of the tasks we took great care in completing during the update of the AHSS Application Guidelines was to provide a definition for what constitutes a third generation (3rd Gen) Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS). We had been asked this question many times, and often in addressing the question among our technical editors, we would […]
Conventional Rule-of-Thumb Calculations Lead to Inaccurate Press Tonnage Predictions
Applying conventional rules of thumb to the advanced steels in use today will likely under-predict the tonnage requirements. To understand why, read today’s AHSS Insights blog by Auto/Steel Partnership Executive Director, Michael Davenport. Read the blog here >>>
AHSS Insights Blog: Servo Press Force and Energy Considerations When Working With AHSS
Happy New Year! We’re starting a new year of AHSS Insights blog talking about press force, energy and Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS). In this month’s blog, you’ll learn more about the role of press energy and force in addressing the challenges of forming and cutting AHSS grades. Next month, we’ll have a practical guide on […]
Steel E-Motive Exterior Styling Revealed at EV Tech Europe
Design unveiled for connected steel autonomous vehicle for future sustainable urban mobility To advance sustainable transportation by factoring whole lifecycle into a vehicle’s development, WorldAutoSteel and Ricardo have designed a fully autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) steel-enabled vehicle inspired by contemporary urban architecture trends and focused on passenger safety and comfort. Steel E-Motive, an initiative of WorldAutoSteel, […]
Automotive World Hosts Steel E-Motive Webinar 7 December
In this free, 60-minute webinar, Ricardo’s Neil McGregor and WorldAutoSteel’s George Coates showcase the vehicle technical specifications and expectations for steel innovations. The experts will also outline innovations in the progression of key component structures. Key topics and takeaways: Overview of market influencers and motivations for fully autonomous MaaS vehicles Discussion on steel […]
AHSS Insights Blog: The Latest Global Formability Diagram
Bubble chart. Banana diagram. Steel strength ductility diagram—it’s been called a lot of things over the years. But the Global Formability Diagram (GFD) is our most popular image request from engineers and students all over the world and appears in thousands of presentations and papers. Because of that, we periodically update it to make sure […]
Additive Manufacturing – AHSS Insights Blog
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been associated with the future of manufacturing since its inception. Using AM to manufacture forming tools for Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) and Press Hardened Steels (PHS) brings the opportunity for reduced tooling lead-time, reduced tooling cost, and optimization of the tools for weight, strength, and thermal management. This AHSS Insights blog is an […]
Vision for Industry 4.0 in Sheet Metal Forming
The manufacturing industry is currently experiencing a significant transformation of digitalization, connectivity, and higher flexibility of the manufacturing process. Industry 4.0 has been defined as “a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing and cognitive computing and […]
AHSS Guidelines Version 7.0 Available!
We are very excited to announce today the launch of a new version of the Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) Application Guidelines, the leading source for technical best practices on AHSS metallurgy, forming and joining. But you won’t be downloading a large PDF file! The AHSS Application Guidelines Version 7.0 is now online at ahssinsights.org in […]