Premium
Driving Force and Logic of Development of Advanced High Strength Steels for Automotive Applications
Author(s) -
Bouaziz Olivier,
Zurob Hatem,
Huang Mingxin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.201200288
Subject(s) - twip , automotive industry , formability , materials science , ferrite (magnet) , metallurgy , high strength steel , manufacturing engineering , austenite , engineering , composite material , microstructure , aerospace engineering
The major scientific and technological advances and breakthroughs of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) were achieved due to the strong demands of automotive industry. The development of AHSS began in the early 1980s with the aim of improving passenger safety and weight‐saving. The present paper presents the driving forces and logic of development of various AHSS for automotive applications since 1980s. The importance of crash performance, weight‐saving, formability, and rigidity are critically reviewed for the development of new steel grades for automotive applications. The logical sequences of the development of dual phase (DP) steel, transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) steels, tempered DP steels, complex phases (CP) steels, Ferrite‐Bainite steels, hot‐stamping technology, twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steels, Quench and Partitioning (Q&P) steels, Medium Mn steels, and steels–polymer composites are presented.