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Steel E-Motive Closures: Balancing openness and accessibility to create a safe & strong autonomous vehicle

We at WorldAutoSteel, side-by-side with our engineering partner Ricardo, are rounding the corner on two years in the design process…

Designing For Vehicle Crash Requirements that Don’t Yet Exist

Since June 2020, we've been working with our engineering partners, Ricardo, on Steel E-Motive, a vehicle engineering program which is…

Using Martensitic Steels as an Alternative to Press Hardening Steel – Laboratory Evaluations

Our colleagues at JFE Steel recently provided us with a new case study based on laboratory evaluations they conducted in…

T-44

Citation: T-44. S. Tobita, T. Shinmiya, and Y Yamasaki, “Press Molded Article Manufacturing Method,” Patent Assigned to JFE Steel Corporation, …

T-29

Citation: T-29. S. Tobita, T. Shinmiya, Y. Yamasaki and J. Hiramoto, “Development of Forming Technology to Reduce Dimensional Scattering of…

J-24

Citation: J-24.  JFE Steel Corporation,  News Release, “TOYOTA Lexus Adopts 1.5GPa High-strength Cold-rolled Steel Sheet to Structural Part by Unique…

K-57

Citation: K-57. Courtesy of T. Kondo, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.    

Martensite

Metallurgy of Martensitic Steels Case Study: Using Martensitic Steels as an Alternative to Press Hardening Steel – Laboratory Evaluations Case…

What are 3rd Gen AHSS?

One of the tasks we took great care in completing during the update of the AHSS Application Guidelines was to…

Conventional Rule-of-Thumb Calculations Lead to Inaccurate Press Tonnage Predictions

The rule of thumb estimates used in 1989 during my internship with an automotive stamping supplier were simple calculations for…