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Advanced sheet steels for automotive applications

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Vacuum degassing has recently been used by sheet steel producers to improve their products’ ductility and strength. Carbon contents can be reduced by an order of magnitude to less than 0.0030 wt.%. Through careful alloying and processing, a range of new steel products has been developed for the automotive industry. These products include interstitial-free, deep-drawing-quality steels; formable, high-strength, interstitial-free steels; and bake-hardenable steels. This article summarizes the chemistry and processing needed to produce these products.

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    James R. Fekete Ph.D. (manager), Donald C. Strugala B.S. (research engineer) & Zhicong Yao Ph.D. (research engineer)

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Fekete, J.R., Strugala, D.C. & Yao, Z. Advanced sheet steels for automotive applications. JOM 44, 17–21 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03222745

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