Welcome to AHSSInsights.org, the leading online resource for technical information on the forming, joining and metallurgy of Advanced High-Strength Steels for automotive applications.
This site features a searchable database, enabling easy access to critical information on the key benefits of automotive high strength steels and how they can be deployed for manufacture. The content is made publicly available by WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association.
More Reveals of the Steel E-Motive Autonomous Vehicle Demonstration
WorldAutoSteel has a 30-year legacy of steel demonstration all the way back to the Ultra-Light Steel Auto Body (ULSAB), whose engineering report is still being downloaded from our worldautosteel.org...
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 for the Steel E-Motive's SEM1 and SEM2 autonomous, electric,...
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 developing virtual concepts for two fully autonomous and...
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 Japan. The article is part of our Martensite article, but we this...
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 provide a definition for what constitutes a third generation (3rd Gen) Advanced...
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 the peak load. Tonnage for trim and pierce operations depended on the...