United States Steel Automotive Solutions to Light Weighting Generation 3 Steels - A Guide to Applications of Gen3 AHSS August 25, 2016 Michael Davenport Director Product Application Engineering
Why are Gen3 Steels Required? The day of the passenger car made primarily of iron and steel is on the wane giving ground to aluminum, magnesium and plastics. 2
What is the Automotive Material of Choice? CARS Magazine October 1953 The day of the passenger car made primarily of iron and steel is on the wane giving ground to aluminum, magnesium and plastics. 3
Steel Innovation 1970s Body-on-Frame Body-Frame-Integral 1980s Uncoated Galvanized Rust Resistant The day of the passenger car made primarily of iron and steel is on the wane giving ground to aluminum, magnesium and plastics. 1990s Mild Steel High Strength and Bake Hard Steel 2000s Mild & High Strength GEN1 AHSS and PHS Today GEN3 Advanced High Strength Steels 4
What is Gen3? 70 Generation 2 Elongation (%) 60 50 40 30 20 IF Mild BH IF - HS ISO UTS x TE = 25000 10 0 Generation 1 HSLA MART 0 300 600 900 1200 1600 Tensile Strength (MPa) USS CR 1180 Gen 3 Target 5
Data Needed to Turn Coils into Parts Microstructure Characterization Gauge and width capability Mechanical Properties Bake hardening / Aging High strain rate Denise, Janet, Kyle & Stephanie Your case studies and template designs are beautiful and central to this book. Fatigue 1.0 Plane Strain Compatibility with paint system True Major Strain 0.5 Forming Limit Curve -0.5 0 0.5 True Minor Strain FLD Aisling, Denise, Tyler & Ivan The book wouldn t have Safe happened without your rocking design skills and tenacity. Hole expansion ratio Spot Weld Dynamic Crush Dynamic Bending Hydrogen embrittlement Fracture toughness evaluation 6
Mechanical Properties Formability and High Strength 66% Higher Strength 25% Shorter crush distance 1200 300 1000 250 Engineering Stress [MPa] 800 600 400 USS: 590MPa Crush Force (kn) 200 150 100 DP590 (1.6mm) 980Gen3 (1.0mm) 200 USS: Gen3 980MPa 50 0 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 0 5 10 15 20 25 Engineering Strain (%) Displacement (mm) 980 Gen3 make 37% weight save and better crush performance possible 7
Mechanical Properties Formability and High Strength 5% Higher formability with 980 Gen3 Uniform strain distribution with 980 Gen3 70 DP590 980GEN3 65 0.2 Cup Height at Fracture (mm) 60 55 DP590 980GEN3 True Thinning Strain 0.1 0 DP590 980 Gen3 0 20 40 60 Distance (mm) 980 Gen3 has 5% higher formability and better strain distribution than DP590 8
Welding 980Gen3 - Characterization of Parameters Wide range of welding parameters No softening in HAZ observed 19 18 A 2.2 kamp D 600 Weld Time, Cycles 17 16 15 14 B C 2.1 kamp 2.2 kamp E F Hardness, HVN 500 400 300 13 6 7 8 9 10 Weld Current, kamp 200 0 10 20 30 40 50 Indentation Welding 980Gen3 steels can be achieved with a wide range of welding parameters and uniform hardness behavior. 9
Dynamic Crush Critical for Energy Absorption Part Testing Structural Analysis 20 Part correlation Energy absorption (kj) 15 10 Test 1 5 Test 2 Simulation 0 0 50 100 150 200 Displacement (mm) Test/Simulation correlation 10
Guide to Applications of Gen3 Material Portfolio Forming Global Formability Functional Objectives Assembly Local Formability Structural Components Impact Crack Resistance 11
Material Portfolio Hance Diagram View 12
Understand the Components Functional Objectives q Functional Objective Form into complex shapes Minimize Intrusion Absorb Energy q Application Load beam reinforcements B Pillar reinforcements Roof rail inner reinforcements Front Roof Header & Bow roof Panel Body side sill reinforcements Reinforcement Front & Rear rails Reinforcement floor cross members 13
Understand Global Formability Result with USS solution: Safe forming with upgrade & downgage Good correlation between CAE and trial 13% weight reduction Minimal springback without any adjustment to production die Splits Splits in 780MPa UTS 980 Gen3 for global formability Safe 14
Understand Local Formability Edge Stretch & TFS Result with USS solution: Safe Forming Improved crack resistance 980MPa UTS selected by strength only Splits 980MPa UTS selected by microstructure and TFS Safe 15
Local Formability - Bending Under Tension & TFS Determination of minimum die radius Future Paper 16
Local Formability - Crack Propagation & TFS Future Paper 17
Local Formability - Crack Propagation & TFS Future Paper 18
Guide to Applications of Gen3 Material Portfolio Forming Global Formability Functional Objectives Form into complex shapes Minimize Intrusion Absorb Energy Assembly Local Formability Structural Component Impact Crack Resistance 19
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