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Evolution of Strength of Automotive Steels to Meet Customer Challenges

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Advanced High Strength Sheet Steels

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This chapter describes briefly the history of evolution of requirements of automotive steels motivated by growing requirements of car safety, reduction in fuel consumption, and therefore in car weight, and environment protection from CO2 emission. Starting from 70s, the evolution of automotive steels included new and breakthrough development of steels grades with strength from initial ~350 to 2000 MPa. A few generations of developed steels are considered, starting from dual phase, TRIP steels, complex phase, and martensitic steels, which are combined by the term of AHSS (advanced high-strength steels) to TWIP steels and steels of so-called third generation.

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Fonstein, N. (2015). Evolution of Strength of Automotive Steels to Meet Customer Challenges. In: Advanced High Strength Sheet Steels. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19165-2_1

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