Lightweight Steel Solutions for Automotive Industry
- Technical Research Laboratories, POSCO, 699, Gumho-dong, Gwangyang-si, Jeonnam, 545-090 (Korea, Republic of)
Recently, improvement in fuel efficiency and safety has become the biggest issue in worldwide automotive industry. Although the regulation of environment and safety has been tightened up more and more, the majority of vehicle bodies are still manufactured from stamped steel components. This means that the optimized steel solutions enable to demonstrate its ability to reduce body weight with high crashworthiness performance instead of expensive light weight materials such as Al, Mg and composites. To provide the innovative steel solutions for automotive industry, POSCO has developed AHSS and its application technologies, which is directly connected to EVI activities. EVI is a technical cooperation program with customer covering all stages of new car project from design to mass production. Integrated light weight solutions through new forming technologies such as TWB, hydroforming and HPF are continuously developed and provided for EVI activities. This paper will discuss the detailed status of these technologies especially light weight steel solutions based on innovative technologies.
- OSTI ID:
- 21366782
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1252, Issue 1; Conference: NUMIFORM 2010: 10. international conference on numerical methods in industrial forming processes dedicated to Professor O. C. Zienkiewicz (1921-2009), Pohang (Korea, Republic of), 13-17 Jun 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3457603; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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