In addition to enhanced formability, Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS) provide crash energy management benefits over their conventional High-Strength Steel (HSS) counterparts at similar strength levels. Higher levels of work hardening and bake hardening at a given...
These Guidelines focus on the forming and joining of Advanced High-Strength Steels, but those aspects are only important in the context of how and why steels are used in automotive body structures or other engineered products. Normal vehicle use involves repeated...
Normal vehicle use leads to repeated loading of components and joints. Stress concentrations in the body structure may lead to plastic strains at stresses below the yield strength due to cyclic fatigue. Conventional High-Strength Steel fatigue behavior correlates with...