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amounts of advanced and ultra high- strength steels to save weight and improve performance and safety. Near- ly 25 percent of the body-in-white is either advanced or ultra high-strength steel, which contributed to a mass-effi- cient design and a 75-percent increase in roof strength over the previous model.
Among the advanced high-strength steel features of the F-150 are a hydro- formed front-end, low-pressure hydro- formed dual-phase 780 roof rail, boron hot-stamped B-pillar reinforcement and high-strength side rails.
Here’s a partial list of presentations from GDIS 2010, available for download on demand at www.steel.org.
• FutureSteelVehicle—Jody Shaw, United States Steel Corporation; Harry Singh, EDAG; and Akbar Farahani, Engineering Technology Asso- ciates, Inc.
• Lightweighting Automobile Body– Enablers and Manufacturing Chal- lenges—Dan Grieshaber, General Motors Co.
• Advanced High-Strength Steel Technologies in the 2010 Ford Fiesta— Shawn Morgans, Ford Motor Co.
• A Methodology for Estimating the Potential Mass Reduction of an All Steel Body-in-White by Replacing Mild Steel with High-Strength Steel—Gre- gory Peterson, Lotus Engineering
• Tailor Welded Coils: Applications, Results and Body Structure Impact— Mark Eisenmenger, TWB Company LLC
• Economics of Lightweighting Steel Wheels through Flow-Forming—Erik Waelchli, IBD Connection, Inc.
• Lightweight Suspension Front Lower Control Arm Design Opti- mization—Hannes Fuchs, Multimatic Engineering
• Investigation of Tooling Durabili- ty for Advanced High-Strength Steels— Tareena Mulholland, General Motors Co.
• Hydroformed Front Bumper Tech- nology in the 2010 Ford Raptor Truck—Conrad Kudelko, Consultant; and John Cass, Amino North America.
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Body Structure Sub System—B Pillar
such a wide variety of forming options. Shaw noted some 30 different materials and 19 process variations being reviewed by the FSV team, alerting attendees to a “mass paradigm shift” in the way vehi- cles will be developed in the near future.
Three Cheers
for the Ford F-150
Receiving special recognition at GDIS 2010 was Ford Motor Co.’s F-150 research and development team, which received the annual Automotive Excel- lence Award from the Automotive Applications Council of the Steel Mar- ket Development Institute (SMDI) hon- ored with its. The team was recognized for its cost-effective and efficient use of advanced and ultra high-strength steel, which helped to minimize the vehicle’s weight while maintaining its durability and safety.
The 2010 F-150 uses increased
Body Structure Sub System—Front Rails
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