Steel E-Motive Steel Structures for Autonomous MaaS Vehicles: Progress Update
The WorldAutoSteel Steel E-Motive program has been moving along now for nearly a year, and we’d like to share an update with you, our engineering colleagues, on some of the design decisions we’re facing. If you recall, the Steel E-Motive program is designing vehicle...
Life Cycle Assessment: 6 areas designers need to consider when taking an LCA approach to vehicle development
Designing vehicles with an LCA focus is a new concept for most product designers. In this blog,Russ Balzer, Technical Director for WorldAutoSteel and Dr. Don Malen, College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, we define six areas for designers to consider...
Join us at American Iron and Steel Institute’s online Great Designs in Steel, 19 May 2021!
Great Designs in Steel brings together engineers from many walks of the automotive industry to present their steel research, advancements and designs. You can view the line up of technical presentations here. And WorldAutoSteel will be there! We'll be presenting an...
Introduction to LCA: A steeluniversity.org course
This two-hour course, Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment, introduces the methodology to analyze the environmental burdens of product and service systems. Prof Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner guides you in exploring life cycle assessment (LCA) through the use of...
Importance of LCA in the Automotive Sector
In this video, Russ Balzer LCACP, Technical Director, WorldAutoSteel, explains the importance Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays in fully determining vehicle environmental impacts. After viewing the video, check out some of the other resources available to learn more...
PHS in Automotive Applications: An Abridged History
Today's AHSS Insights blog provides a snapshot of how Press Hardened Steels began and spread to vehicle applications around the world. Written by Dr. Eren Billur, Billur Makine and Billur Metal Form, Ankara, Turkey and author of Hot Stamping of Ultra High Strength...