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'SCT2011 SCT2011 Future trends in steel development, processing technologies and applications Bringing the automotive, supplier and steel industries together Edited by Dr.-lng. Hans-Joachim Wieland and TEMATechnologie Marketing AG

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'SCT2011

SCT2011Future trends in steel development,processing technologies and applications

Bringing the automotive, supplier and steel industries together

Edited by Dr.-lng. Hans-Joachim Wieland

and TEMATechnologie Marketing AG

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Table of contents

Plenary Session 1

The steel industry - challenges and chances in a global market 2

Hans Jurgen Kerkhoff, Steel Institute VDEh, German Steel Federation, Germany

Volkswagen engineering - global production - local materials 2

Stephan Eisenberg, Volkswagen AG, Germany

Developments in forging technology - answers to changes and

challenges of the automotive industry 2

Hans-Willi Raedt, Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH, Germany

Opening of the exhibition 2

Hans Jurgen Kerkhoff, Steel Institute VDEh, German Steel Federation, Germany

Light weight solutions with flat products 3

FutureSteelVehicle leading edge innovation for steel body structures 4

Martin Peruzzi, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria; Antoine Gauriat, ArcelorMittal,

France; Marc Lambriks, Tata Steel Europe, The Netherlands; Oliver Hoffmann,

ThyssenKruppSteel Europe, Germany; Jody R. Shaw, US Steel Corporation,USA

Tubular steel components for light weight axle designs 12

Thomas Sauberlich, Benteler Tube Management GmbH, Andreas Frehn,

BentelerAutomobiltechnik GmbH, Germany

Innovations for automotive light weight solutions - the steel aluminium

hybrid blank 22

Enno Arenholz, voestalpine, Austria; Gerald Brugger, voestalpine EuroplatlnenGmbH Austria; Jurgen Bruckner, Fronius International, Austria

Innovative steels for trucks 27

Innovative lightweight steel solutions for commercial vehicles 28

Helmut Mebus, Christa Heigele-Hempowitz, Thorsten Boger, ThyssenKruppSteel Europe AG, Germany; Erik Seelen, ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks GmbH,

Germany

Use of higher-alloyed metallic materials and duplex steels for transporttanks of dangerous goods 29

Margit Weltschev, Ralph BaBler, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research

and Testing, Germany

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Tubes used as rotating components in gear box applications 38

Kara/a Klenke, Benteler Tube Management GmbH, Germany

Steel components - Strength properties of long products 42

The fibre flow in steel and its influences on mechanical properties 43

Andreas Schuster, Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH, Germany

Influence of manganese sulfide inclusions on fatigue properties of AFP

steels 51

Nora Exel, Heinz Kaufmann, Fraunhofer-lnstitut fur Betriebsfestigkeit und

Systemzuverlassigkeit LBF, Germany

On the evaluation of strength of cold forged components made of high

nitrogen steels 58

Johannes Noneder, M. Merklein, U. Engel, Lehrstuhl fur Fertigungstechnologie,Germany

Press hardening I 66

Current and future trends in the field of hot stamping of car body parts 67

RalfKolleck, Robert Veit, Institute Tools and Forming, Graz University of

Technology, Austria

Production of load-adapted lightweight designs by partial hardening 75

Dieter Thomas, Thomas Troster, Holger Block, University of Paderborn,

Germany

Development of a close-to-production prototype of an induction heatingdevice for hot stamping of boron alloyed steels 83

Robert Veit, RalfKolleck, Christian Gasser, Gemot Wilfinger, Institute Tools and

Forming, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Significant insights and innovative processes for process-sure press

hardening of laser-welded seams in hotform blanks 91

Max Brandt, ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks GmbH, Germany

Profiles for body structure 100

Vehicle structure innovations by advanced rollformed solutions 101

Robert Wurzer, voestalpine Krems GmbH, Austria

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The HI-PAT project for new semi finished products for the roll

forming-tailor rolled dual phase steels 107

Andreas Wedemeier, Thomas Schulz, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH,

Germany; Adrian Istrate, Welser Profile GmbH, Germany; Jurgen Kotter, Schmitz

CargobullAG, Germany; Andreas Elvenkemper, Muhr und Bender KG, Germany;

Philip Beiter, Peter Groche, PtU TU Darmstadt, Germany; Frank Nehuis, Jan

Robert Ziebart, Thomas Vietor, IK TU Braunschweig, Germany

Passive safety and tubes made of high strength steels - a symbiosis 115

Kenan Ozdem, Benteler Tube Management GmbH, Germany; Michael Lueger,Benteler Tube Management, Switzerland

New methods for manufacturing 3D-bent lightweight structures made

from high-strength steel 120

Daniel Staupendahl, Christoph Becker, Matthias Hermes, A. Erman Tekkaya,Matthias Kleiner, TU Dortmund, Institute of Forming Technology and LightweightConstruction (IUL), Germany

Steel components - Made from long products 130

Experiences in manufacturing crown wheels with a forged pre-gearingfor commercial vehicle industry 131

Klaus Pfeiffer, Horst Schneider, Buderus Edelstahl Schmiedetechnik GmbH,

Germany; Frank Hippenstiel, Buderus Edelstahl GmbH, Germany

Oil tempered wire for high demanding applications - necessity of defect

management in the supply chain 140

Peter Janlien, ArcelorMittal Ruhrort GmbH, Germany; Malin Hallberg,Suzuki Garphyttan AB, Sweden; Hans Pengg, Johann Pengg AG, Austria

ArcelorMittal provides co-engineered solutions for high performance cars

components 147

Bruno Cofino, ArcelorMittal Long Carbon R&D, France

Influence coefficients of the production of steel bars on the further

production processes of engineering steels 148

Sven Kunow, Frank Wilke, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH, Germany

Press hardening II 156

Influence of silicon on intermetallic phases formation in Al coating

layer of HPF Steel 157

Baek Eungryul, Nandyo Alpalmy, Yeungnam University, South Korea;Cho Yeol Rae, POSCO Technical Research Laboratory, South Korea

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Development of heat resistant galvanized sheet steels for press

hardening process 165

ll-Ryoung Sohn, Yeoi-Rae Cho, Sung-Ho Park, Wung-Yong Choo, POSCO, South

Korea

Challenges and advantages in usage of zinc-coated, press-hardenedcomponents with tailored properties 173

Thomas Manzenreiter, Thomas Kurz, Martin Rosner, voestalpine Stahl GmbH,

Austria; Andreas Sommer, Dieter Hartmann, Reiner Kelsch, voestalpine PolynormGmbH & Co KG, Germany; Gerald Brugger, voestalpine Europlatine GmbH, Austria

Properties and modelling of material behaviour of hot forming steels with

special emphasis of increased strength levels compared to 22MnB5 181

Thomas Gerber, Stephane Graff, Franz-Josef Lenze, Sascha Sikora,

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

ZnMg-Coatings 189

Zinc-magnesium coatings for automobile & trucks - a new dimension for

corrosion protection 190

Alain Besseyrias, Luc Diez, Christian Allely, ArcelorMittal, France

Tribological potential of zinc magnesium alloys 198

Anna-Elisabeth Raab, Erich Berger, Johann Freudenthaler, Franz Leomann,Christian Walch, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria

MagiZinc Auto, a new HDG coating designed for automotive

applications 206

Nitte Van Landschoot, Vlot Margot, Tata Steel Strip Products Umuiden,The Netherlands

Modern steel design and heat treatment 207

New developments in the material and process design of forgedcomponents in the automobile industry 208

Christoph Keul, Linda Mosecker, Wolfgang Bleck, RWTH Aachen University,

Germany; Tim Rekersdrees, Henning Schliephake, Georgsmarienhutte GmbH,

Germany; Christophe Beyer, Hans-Willi Raedt, Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH,Germany

Bainitic treatment and case hardening - latest development on heat

treatment technologies 218

Matthias Steinbacher, Foundation Institute of Materials Science, Germany;Franz Hoffmann, Brigitte Clausen, IWT-Bremen, Germany

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One piece flow-vacuum heat treating - integration of case hardeninginto the manufacturing-line 228

Klaus Loser, Volker Heuer, ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH, Germany

New approach for intermediate induction heating of preformed forging

parts within a warm forming process chain 238

Martin Mach, Egbert Baake, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

New high strength steels 1 246

Development of cold rolled intercritically annealed multiphaseTRIP steels with a tensile strength above 980 MPa 247

Daniel Krizan, Andreas Pichler, Patrick Larour, Martin Gruber, voestalpine Stahl

GmbH, Austria; Ekaterina Bocharova, Dorothea Mattissen, Thomas Heller,

Annette Baumer, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

New advanced high strength hot rolled steels 255

Brigitte Hammer, Sarah Abraham, Thomas Heller, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

AG, Germany; Yoshimasa Funakawa, Akio Kobayashi, Katsumi Nakajima, Hayato

Saito, Kazuhiro Seto, Takeshi Yokota, JFE, Japan

Fabrication of load optimized truck members with variable cross

sections by flexible roll forming 263

Roland Hennig, Albert Sedlmaier, Andre Abee, data M Sheet Metal Solutions

GmbH, Germany

Microstructure-property relationships of bainitic high strength steel

grade SZBS800 271

Markus Krieger, Uwe Eggers, Magsud Masimov, Salzgitter Mannesmann

Forschung GmbH, Germany; Christian Pelz, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Germany

Testing of flat products 279

Characterization of the transition area at partial hardened car body

components by the 3-point bending test 280

Christian Hezler, Christine Kopp, Karl-Michael Bader, Bernd Griesbach, AUDI

AG, Germany; Marion Merklein, Lehrstuhl fur Fertigungstechnologie Universitat

Erlangen, Germany

Holistic approach for spotweld modelling in crashworthiness analysis 288

David Pieronek, Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen (FKA),Germany; Andre Marx, Rolf Roettger, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

Thermographic testing of joints in automotive body structures 297

Ulrike Siemer, Volkswagen AG, Germany

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Influence of manufacture-related imperfections on the fatiguebehaviour of spot welded high strength steels 305

Stephan Brauser, Michael Rethmeier, Gert Weber, Gaul Holger, Lutz-Alexander

Pepke, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany

Modern steel design - Long products 313

Improvement working and utility properties of classical and new Mo

alloyed carburizing steels 314

Frank Hippenstiel, Buderus Edelstahl GmbH, Germany

Alternative alloying concepts for heat-treatable engineering steels 322

Herbert Schifferl, Sabine Zamberger, Albin Joller, voestalpine Stahl Donawitz

Gmbh, Austria

New air cooled steels with outstanding impact toughness 330

Hans Roelofs, Stephan Hasler, Swiss Steel AG, Switzerland; Mirkka Lembke,

SteeltecAG, Switzerland; Francisca G. Caballero, CSIC-CENIM, Spain

New high strength steels II 338

Hot rolled, hot-dip galvanized high-strength steel for automotive

applications 339

Markus Sonnleitner, Helmut Spindler, Matthias Flume, voestalpine Stahl GmbH,

Austria; Alfred Seyr, voestalpine Krems GmbH, Austria

Materials concepts for high strength and ultra high strength automotive

applications 347

Andreas Peters, Benteler Tube Management GmbH, Germany

Innovative high and ultra high strength steel concepts for cold formingapplications 355

Thomas Thulig, Dieter Krech, Gerald Zwickel, BILSTEIN GmbH & Co. KG,

Germany; RalfKolleck, Steffen Raschka, Techn. Universitat Graz, Austria

Collaboration of automotive and steel industry 363

VDA Werkstoffblatt 239: An approach for a global sheet steel

specification 364

Thomas Dettinger, DaimlerAG, Germany; Johann Hogerl, BMWAG, Germany;Heike Kantereit, Adam Opel GmbH, Germany; Carsten Lachmann, VolkswagenAG, Germany; Klaus Lamprecht, AudiAG, Germany; Albert Tonnessen,Ford-Werke GmbH, Germany

Application of material approval process in a globally acting company 371

Birgit Reichert, Klaus Unruh, Faurecia Automotive Seating, Germany;David Even, Faurecia Automotive Seating, France

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A VDA-approach on the development of a test method for quantifyinghydrogen embrittlement in advanced high strength automotive

steel sheets 379

Matthias Loidl, BMW Group, Germany; OlafKolk, BMW, Germany

A new laboratory corrosion test for cars and trucks 388

Karl-Heinz Stellnberger, Gerald Luckeneder, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria;Stefanie Geisler, Steel Institute, Germany

Improved properties for long products 394

A new bainitic steel for cold heading applications 395

Stephan Hasler, Ulrich Urlau, Swiss Steel AG, Switzerland; Jochen Kruse,

ZF Lemforder GmbH, Germany

A high-strength and super clean heat-treatable steel for application in the

automotive industry 403

Rainer Fluch, Ingo Siller, Bottler Edelstahl GmbH & Co KG, Austria

Technological properties of the new high strength bainitic steel

20MnCrMo7 404

Serosh Engineer, Holger Justinger, EZM EdelstahlZieherei Mark GmbH,

Germany; Peter JanHen, ArcelorMittal Ruhrort GmbH, Germany; Michael Hartel,

Carsten Hampel, Continental Automotive GmbH, Germany; Frank Randelhoff,

A. +E. Keller Gmbh & Co. KG, Arnsberg, Germany

Research & Development of High Strength Fastener using

Hyper-Eutectoid Steel 412

You-Hwan Lee, Kim Dong Hyun, Kim Ji Soo, POSCO, South Korea;Lee Chong Soo, POSTECH, South Korea

Corrosion protection 417

Corrosion resistance of different metallic coatings on press-hardenedsteels for automotive 418

Laurence Dosdat, Jacques Petitjean, ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research, France;Thomas Vietoris, ArcelorMittal, Germany; Olivier Ciauzeau, Bohr Technologies,France

New coatings for hot press forming 426

Maria Koyer, Patrick Kuhn, Jens Kondratiuk, Manfred Meurer, Dortmunder

Oberflachencentrum GmbH, Germany; Franz-Josef Lenze, ThyssenKrupp Steel

Europe AG, Germany

Aspects of cosmetic corrosion performance of galvanized and

coil-coated steel substrates for car body applications 434

Gerald Luckeneder, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria

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2nd generation corrosion protection primers - further advances in

automotive corrosion prevention 440

Ingo Kluppel, ThyssenKrupp Dortmunder Oberflachencentrum GmbH, Germany;

Karl-Heinz Stellnberger, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria; Stefanie Geisler, Steel

Institute VDEh, Germany; Thorsten Reier, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung

GmbH, Germany; Eric Jacqueson, ArcelorMittal, France

Electromobility 449

Steel solutions for electromobility 450

Oliver Hoffmann, ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany

Electrical steel - Current and future applications of a challengingmaterial in the automotive industry 451

Thomas Bohm, ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel GmbH, Germany; Johann MQIIer,

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany; Norbert Brachthauser, C. D. Walzholz

GmbH, Germany; Franz Dorninger, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria; Stefanie

Geisler, Steel Institute VDEh, Germany; Sigrid Jacobs, ArcelorMittal, Belgium;Andreas Jansen, Rolf Stiller, ArcelorMittal Eisenhuttenstadt GmbH, Germany

Diesel-injection solutions 459

Advanced high-strength TRIP-aided steels for ultra high pressure

Dl-Diesel engine common rail 460

Kohichi Sugimoto, Nobuo Yoshikawa, Shinshu University, Japan

Requirements on Diesel Injection Tubes for Common-Rail-Systems 468

Karola Klenke, Benteler Tube Management GmbH, Germany

Injection Lines for Diesel engines - Simulation-based fatigue strength

engineering 478

Steffen Zimmermann, Lars Bremer, Alfred Ostermann, Salzgitter Mannesmann

Forschung GmbH, Germany; Uwe Lechtenfeld, Andreas Zaremba, SalzgitterMannesmann Prazisrohr GmbH, Germany

Ultrafine-grained steels for high loaded engine components 487

Matthias Kuntz, Manfred Bacher-Hochst, Friedrich Muhleder, Robert Bosch GmbH,

Germany; Shiro Torizuka, Yoshiyuki Furuya, National Institute of Materials Science,

Tsukuba, Japan

Hydrogen embrittlement / Weldability 495

Influence of microstructure on the susceptibility towards hydrogenembrittlement 496

Richard Thiessen, Thomas Heller, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany;Klemens Mraczek, Arnd Nitschke, Andreas Pichler, voestalpine Stahl GmbH,Austria

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Evaluation of hydrogen embrittlement for ultra high strengthsteel sheets 503

Norbert Rossler, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

Laserwelding of steel with cast-iron without filler material 512

Christian Eisner, Andreas Bunting, DaimlerAG, Germany

Mechanical properties and weldability of 700 MPa structural steels with

excellent formability 516

Jukka Komi, Rautaruukki Oyj, Finland; Mikko Hemmila, Tommi Liimatainen,David Porter, Pertti Mikkonen, Rautaruukki Oyj, Ruukki Metals, Finland

Modelling and Simulation 1 524

Parameter identification of damage parameters of LS-DYNA gurson

material model from a tensile test 525

Wolfgang Wallisch, Dynardo - Dynamic Software and Engineering GmbH,Austria; Johannes Will, Henrick Nilsson, Dynardo - Dynamic Software and

Engineering GmbH, Germany

Formability prediction of high strength steels for automotive

applications 533

Junhe Lian, Sebastian MOnstermann, Wolfgang Bleck, Institute of Ferrous

Metallurgy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Modelling the strain rate dependence of flow curves by improved yield

strength prediction 541

Kirsten Dahmen, Wolfgang Bleck, RWTH Aachen University, Germany;

Birgit Reichert, Faurecia Autositze GmbH, Germany

A method to determine the dynamic energy absorption by deformation

for the automotive steels 550

Fang Jian, Zhou Yedong, Baosteel Research Institute,Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., China

Machinability / Stainless steels 558

New metallurgical concepts for improving machinability of steels 559

Peter JanlSen, ArcelorMittal Ruhrort GmbH, Germany; Serosh Engineer,EZM Edelstahlzieherei Mark, Germany

Machinability of high-strength bainitic steel 20MnCrMo7 567

Fabian Felderhoff, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany; Dirk Biermann, Institut fur

Spanende Fertigung, TU Dortmund, Germany; Serosh Engineer, Holger Justinger,EZM Edelstahlzieherei Mark GmbH, Germany

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Machining of stainless steels used in cars and trucks 575

Denis Fofanov, Ingrid Hofmann, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH, Germany

Properties of laser welded H400 austenitic chrome-manganese stainless

steel sheets 583

Vanessa Quiroz, Gumenyuk Andrey, Michael Rethmeier,

BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany

Joining of flat products 591

Mechanical joining of hot stamped steel 592

Jan Kalich, Uwe Fussel, TU Dresden, Germany

Development of joining technologies for production of hybrid chassis

components 603

Jorn Tolle, Simon Potthast, Jurgen Krogmeier, Siegfried Fecke, Benteler

Automobiltechnik GmbH, Germany

High strength low alloy steel weldments with accommodated qualities

to the base metal 610

Rudolf Rauch, Stefan Kapl, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria; Gerhard Posch,

Boehler Schweisstechnik Austria GmbH, Austria; Karl Radlmayr, voestalpine

Automotive GmbH, Austria

Joinability of thin steel sheets with new zinc-alloy coatings 618

Robert Sierlinger, Sabine Ritsche, voestalpine Stahl, Austria

Modelling and Simulation II 625

Virtual material development: From semi-finished material to crash

behaviour 626

Bianca Springub, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH, Germany; Alexander

Butz, Fraunhofer-lnstitut fur Werkstoffmechanik IWM, Germany; Markus Feucht,

Karl Roll, Sebastian Lossau, Frieder Neukamm, Daimler AG, Germany; Andre

Haufe, DYNAmore GmbH, Germany; Magsud Masimov, Salzgitter Mannesmann

Forschung GmbH, Germany; Franz Roters, Max-Planck-lnstitut fur EisenforschungGmbH, Germany; Rolf Schwarzer, Christoph Wagener, KirchhoffAutomotive

GmbH, Germany

Fatigue life estimation - a feature in virtual development of passenger

cars 634

Franz Ruprechter, Gerhard Kepplinger, Michael Hofer, MAGNA STEYR

FahrzeugtechnikAG & Co KG, Austria

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A pragmatic strategy to take into account metal materials scatter in FEA ..642

David Even, Faurecia Automotive Seating, France; Birgit Reichert,

Faurecia Automotive Seating, Germany; Bjorn Carlsson, SSAB EMEA, Germany;

Marc Lambriks, TATA Steel Europe, The Netherlands

Numerical simulation of the staking process of clinching fasteners 651

Miriam Tofall, Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Germany;

Marion Merklein, Raoul Plettke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen, Germany

New high strength steels III 661

Reliably processable steel for chassis components with high structural

durability 662

Joachim Schottler, Volker Flaxa, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH,

Germany; Jurgen Guettler, Marcus Rieth, Christian Martin Erdmann, DaimlerAG,

Germany

Ultra high strength steels produced by thermomechanical hot rolling -

Advanced properties and applicationsMartin Klein, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Austria 672

New austenitic high manganese steels with improved property profile 680

Harald Hofmann, Sinasi G6klQ, Helmut Richter, Ingo Thomas, Jens-Ulrik Becker,

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

Specialists for extreme purposes: Stainless steel for automotive

construction 689

Tobias Muller, Stefan Lindner, ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH, Germany

Poster Presentations 696

Corrosion testing for stainless steels in automotive exhaust systems 697

Cristina Hoffmann, Paul Gumpel, University ofApplied Sciences Konstanz,

Germany

Efficient Welding Simulation of an Automotive Sheet Metal Assembly 704

William Perret, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany

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