In recent years,despite the global economic recession and steel oversupply,the demand for high strength steel( HSS) and advanced high strength steel( AHSS) sheets has robustly increased. To supply the materials needed...In recent years,despite the global economic recession and steel oversupply,the demand for high strength steel( HSS) and advanced high strength steel( AHSS) sheets has robustly increased. To supply the materials needed for automotive manufacturing,various AHSS products and application technologies have been developed by Baosteel,including the 1st,2nd,and 3rd Gen. AHSS,which makes Baosteel the world’s first steel maker to commercially provide all three generations of AHSS. Recently,the new Gen.( the 2nd and 3rd Gen. combined)AHSS products,which feature ultra-high strength and enhanced ductility,have drawn great attention from both steel makers and the automotive industry as these products can be used to produce auto parts with complicated shapes by cold forming and have great potential for manufacturing car bodies that are lighter in weight and have higher crash resistance. In this article,the concepts,properties,and applications of Baosteel’s new Gen. AHSS products,including quenching and partitioning( QP) steels,twinning-induced-plasticity( TWIP) steels,and Medium-Mn( Mn-TRIP)steels,are described and reviewed. Moreover,the progress of the Baosteel light-weight steel car body( BCB) was reported.展开更多
文摘In recent years,despite the global economic recession and steel oversupply,the demand for high strength steel( HSS) and advanced high strength steel( AHSS) sheets has robustly increased. To supply the materials needed for automotive manufacturing,various AHSS products and application technologies have been developed by Baosteel,including the 1st,2nd,and 3rd Gen. AHSS,which makes Baosteel the world’s first steel maker to commercially provide all three generations of AHSS. Recently,the new Gen.( the 2nd and 3rd Gen. combined)AHSS products,which feature ultra-high strength and enhanced ductility,have drawn great attention from both steel makers and the automotive industry as these products can be used to produce auto parts with complicated shapes by cold forming and have great potential for manufacturing car bodies that are lighter in weight and have higher crash resistance. In this article,the concepts,properties,and applications of Baosteel’s new Gen. AHSS products,including quenching and partitioning( QP) steels,twinning-induced-plasticity( TWIP) steels,and Medium-Mn( Mn-TRIP)steels,are described and reviewed. Moreover,the progress of the Baosteel light-weight steel car body( BCB) was reported.
