Warm Forming of High-Strength Aluminum Automotive Structural Parts: A Success Story (Page 5)

Warm Forming of High-Strength Aluminum Automotive Structural Parts: A Success Story

The automotive industry is challenged to produce vehicles with high customer appeal, improved crash performance, reduced fuel consumption, and reduced carbon dioxide (C02) missions to meet market demands and increasingly stringent government regulations.

A New Testing Method for Edge Cracking Evaluation

The auto industry is increasingly using advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) to improve safety for passengers and provide a lighter structure with a thinner gage AHSS, while maintaining the required strength and toughness.

The Development of Intelligent Servo-Controlled Forming Technology

To optimize product performance, increase reliability, and reduce cost, designers are using new materials with unique properties.

Arc Welding of Aluminum and Magnesium

Aluminum and magnesium are commonly selected for applications requiring a low weight and improved corrosion resistance.

Getting the Most Out of Tandem GMAW: For the Fearful and the Frustrated

Tandem gas metal arc welding (GMAW) is not a new technology. Although it boasts a number of enticing benefits over single-wire GMAW such as significantly higher travel speeds, doubled deposition rates, and reduced heat inputs, few manufacturers have implemented and taken full advantage of this process.

Electron Beam Melting: From Powder to Part

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a novel, layer-by-layer, part-fabrication technique that has opened up a new paradigm in the manufacturing world. Its full adoption by the medical and aerospace communities demonstrates how the technology has moved beyond a rapid prototyping tool to an accepted manufacturing method. Over the past decade, a few specialty materials have been […]

Key Considerations for Metal AM Parameter Optimization

Additive manufacturing (AM) has developed way beyond its inception as a mere rapid prototyping technology. It now presents itself as a viable alternative manufacturing process for fully functional parts. However, the non-recurring engineering costs involved to take an AM part from concept to production are significant, as the industry is yet to define “what really […]

In-Process Monitoring Techniques for Laser Powder Bed Fusion

As metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes shift from part prototyping to part manufacturing, emphasis is being put on in-process monitoring and control to strengthen the quality control standard for the next generation of commercial AM machines.

The Importance of Designing for Additive Manufacturing

Optimizing a Revolutionary Technology for Improved Product Performance.

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