Tag Archives: Hot Stamping

I believe Saturday deserves a weekly post off extrication techniques but highlight knowledge that will help everyone understand how vehicles are made. So let Strategery Saturday begin!

Here is one for the folks in Japan. Take a look at the 2013 honda N-One Minicar Body Structure and airbags.

The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado will start hitting the streets. The new model is packed full of new design features that have change the body structure. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but some areas to take a look at.

The body structure of the 2013 Porsche Cayman is now predominantly aluminium, with the rest fashioned from a combination of magnesium and hot formed high-strength steel.

In the image below, the 2013 Audi A3 shows, in red, an extensive use of hot-formed steel.

The body structure of the 2011 Seat León is unitised made from galvanised steel and uses 50% more high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels than in the previous León, 63% of the steels used are high-strength and 5% are ultra-high-strength. The sheet-metal components that make up the top section of the body (which are the roof, side panelling, pillars and side skirts) as well as the protective bars in the doors are mostly high-strength steels. The frame structure in the lower section of the new León is also composed of a high percentage of high-strength steels.

How strong is manganese-boron steel?  The image below shows how hot the boron blank is hotted up to before it is stamped! By adding heat to the stamping process the B–Pillars can have the tensile strength increased by 500MPa.  Standard ...