The automotive industry has been going through a continuous process of adjustment due to the changes in its operating environment. Such factors; the govremental in addition to the National Standards Setting Bodies NSB’s regulations, for example the Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE standards controls the OEMs fleet fuel economy average, leading to the introduction of smaller vehicles or the u...

An area in the automotive industry that receives a lot of attention today is introduction lighter and more advanced material grades order to reduce carbon emissions, both during production through reduced fuel consumption. As complexity introduced materials component geometries increases, so does need for complex failure prediction approaches. A proposed path-independent criterion, based on tra...

In the automotive and other industries, the visual appearance of external surfaces is a key factor in perceived product quality. Traditionally, the quality of automotive surface finish has been judged by expert human auditors. A set of 17 fibre-reinforced composite plates was previously manufactured to have a range of surface finish quality, and these plates were previously ranked by three expe...

Abstract. Automotive structural components from Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) can be manufactured with Flexible Roll Forming (FRF). Flange wrinkling is a common shape defect in FRF, this restricts the application of FRF automotive industry. The new Incremental Shape Rolling process (ISR) showed that high tensile transverse strain developed flange and assists plastic deformation flange. H...

In order to take up some challenges in metal forming coming from the recent environmental stakes, Electromagnetic Forming and Electro-Hydraulic processes have been developed at industrial scale, using advantages of high strain rates. Such progress has possible particular thanks emergence strongly coupled simulation tools. this article, examples selected applications deep forming, postforming, e...