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A New Steel Engineering Demonstration for MaaS
New Steel Industry Engineering Program Will Demonstrate Steel Architectures for MaaS Vehicles For up-to-date information on the Steel E-Motive program, visit www.steelemotive.world and subscribe for news alerts. 12 November 2020, Brussels – WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association, announced today a new vehicle engineering program, Steel E-Motive. The new program will demonstrate […]
Roll Forming AHSS
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. Therefore, roll forming is well suited for generating many complex shapes […]
A History of Steel Innovation
WorldAutoSteel has a long history of investment in vehicle material application demonstrations to assist the automotive industry in applying steel innovation to current and future vehicles. These programs represent over €80 million in steel industry investment, and we make our reports freely available to engineers all over the world. Click the links to learn more […]
New Program Will Demonstrate Steel Architectures for MaaS Vehicles
12 November 2020, Brussels – WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association, announced today a new vehicle engineering program, Steel E-Motive. The new program will demonstrate the benefits of steel for global Mobility as a Service (MaaS), characterized by fully connected and autonomous electric vehicles. WorldAutoSteel has partnered with Ricardo, global engineering and […]
Geometric Analysis of Sections – GAS2.0
Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS) grades offer increased performance in yield and tensile strength. However, to fully utilize this increased strength, automotive beam sections must be designed carefully to avoid buckling of the plate elements in the section. A new software application, Geometric Analysis of Sections—GAS2.0, available through the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), is […]
Inventing the First AHSS Road Bike
You are most likely wondering why WorldAutoSteel is writing a blog about a bicycle. It is because when we talked to Jia-Uei Chan, Regional Business Development at our member company, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (TKSe), about the journey of inventing the world’s first Advanced High-Strength Steel road bike, we were incredibly inspired. This is more than […]
New Powertrain Models Measure Lightweighting Impacts on Vehicle Powertrain Performance
Automakers are constantly working on lightweighting strategies to reduce vehicle fuel consumption, improve performance, and now with electric vehicles, improve the driving range. As they make changes to the vehicle design, they must assess the resulting environmental impacts. They want to answer the question, “What are the effects of vehicle lightweighting on fuel consumption and […]
Estimate Lightweighting Benefits: Powertrain Models Available for Download
Dr. Donald Malen, University of Michigan, and Dr. Roland Geyer, University of California at Santa Barbara, have developed a set of Parsimonious Powertrain Models that provide a way to estimate lightweighting benefits with minimum inputs. Parsimony is the principle that the best model is the one that requires the fewest assumptions while still providing adequate […]
3-Year Study of Liquid Metal Embrittlement Released Today!
WorldAutoSteel released the results of a three-year study on Liquid Metal Embrittlement (LME), a type of cracking that is reported to occur in the welding of Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS).The study results add important knowledge and data to understanding the mechanisms behind LME and thereby finding methods to control and establish parameters for preventing its […]