New Program Will Demonstrate Steel Architectures for MaaS Vehicles
12 November 2020, Brussels – WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association, announced today a new vehicle engineering program, Steel E-Motive. The new program will demonstrate...
Geometric Analysis of Sections – GAS2.0
Advanced High-Strength Steel (AHSS) grades offer increased performance in yield and tensile strength. However, to fully utilize this increased strength, automotive beam sections must be designed...
Inventing the First AHSS Road Bike
You are most likely wondering why WorldAutoSteel is writing a blog about a bicycle. It is because when we talked to Jia-Uei Chan, Regional Business Development at our member company, thyssenkrupp...
New Powertrain Models Measure Lightweighting Impacts on Vehicle Powertrain Performance
Automakers are constantly working on lightweighting strategies to reduce vehicle fuel consumption, improve performance, and now with electric vehicles, improve the driving range. As they make...
Estimate Lightweighting Benefits: Powertrain Models Available for Download
Dr. Donald Malen, University of Michigan, and Dr. Roland Geyer, University of California at Santa Barbara, have developed a set of Parsimonious Powertrain Models that provide a way to estimate...
3-Year Study of Liquid Metal Embrittlement Released Today!
WorldAutoSteel released the results of a three-year study on Liquid Metal Embrittlement (LME), a type of cracking that is reported to occur in the welding of Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS).The...