Firehouse has section on their website and magazine called University of extrication with most articles written by Ron Moore. Ron wrote a 5 part series on the Extrication Challenges of Advanced Steel In Vehicles: Part 1 – More Steel Part ...

Here is the Advanced Steel Usage in 2008 + Chrysler Minivan Body. This platform includes the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan.

Where would you make your cut? Take a look at the image below before you answer. If you were to make your top cut on the B-Pillar of a late model BMW X5 a couple inches low you would be ...

2010 Porsche Panamera Body Structure. The body shell is knitted together from a number of metals. High strength steels, including Boron-alloyed (shown in red), polyphase (orange), and micro-alloyed (yellow) are used to create an ultra-stiff passenger safety cell. The voluptuous ...

Getting information out of the automakers is sometimes a difficult task. I have friends that work for the Big 3 who usually can dig up some information. A few people I know work at Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. Currently I ...

Jeep has engineered crush zones to divert and dissipate impact energy away from the passenger compartment. The safety cage structure and front crumple zones of the Compass absorb energy during a front impact. During a side impact, the door guard ...

Honda has the Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure and Nissan has what they call Zone Body construction. It would make Firefighter’s lives easier if every automaker designed their vehicle around one body structure concept, but that is not the ...

The higher weight-to-strength ratio of high-strength steel allowed us to develop a body-in-white safety cage that meets more aggressive front-, side- and rear-impact requirements, but without the added weight of regular steel,” Liddane added. “Hot-stamped steel used on the A- ...

Here is an image of a 2006 model year Hyundai Azera showing the side impact beams and the side impact airbags deployed. Start noting the side impact airbags and the how much of the window opening the bags fill when ...

PHS Press Hardening Steels are a grade of steel that can be processed at high temperature by heating in a furnace and pressing while still hot using a cooled tool. The rapid cooling rate transforms the microstructure to 100 per ...