TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Samman, Talal
AB  - The use of lightweight structures across several industries has become inevitable in today’s world given the ever-rising demand for improved fuel economy and resource efficiency. In the automotive industry, composites, reinforced plastics, and lightweight materials, such as aluminum and magnesium are being adopted by many OEMs at increasing rates to reduce vehicle mass and develop efficient new lightweight designs. Automotive weight reduction with high-strength steel is also witnessing major ongoing efforts to design novel damage-controlled forming processes for a new generation of efficient, lightweight steel components. Although great progress has been made over the past decades in understanding the thermomechanical behavior of these materials, their extensive use as lightweight solutions is still limited due to numerous challenges that play a key role in cost competitiveness. Hence, significant research efforts are still required to fully understand the anisotropic material behavior, failure mechanisms, and, most importantly, the interplay between industrial processing, microstructure development, and the resulting properties. This Special Issue reprint book features concise reports on the current status in the field. The topics discussed herein include areas of manufacturing and processing technologies of materials for lightweight applications, innovative microstructure and process design concepts, and advanced characterization techniques combined with modeling of material’s behavior.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03897-959-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 33660
KW  - n/a
KW  - microstructure
KW  - Mg-Al-Ba-Ca alloy
KW  - strength
KW  - severe plastic deformation
KW  - hot working
KW  - surface roughness
KW  - high pressure torsion extrusion
KW  - optimization
KW  - fatigue fracture behavior
KW  - magnesium alloys
KW  - de-coring
KW  - formability
KW  - multilayered sheets
KW  - HPDC
KW  - spring-back
KW  - contact heat transfer
KW  - mechanical properties
KW  - bending
KW  - in-die quenching
KW  - equivalent strain
KW  - light metals
KW  - processing
KW  - heat transfer
KW  - damage
KW  - creep aging
KW  - thin-walled profile
KW  - rolling
KW  - aluminum alloy
KW  - transmission line fittings
KW  - ceramic core
KW  - processing map
KW  - automated void recognition
KW  - FEA
KW  - multi-output porthole extrusion
KW  - density
KW  - kinetic analysis
KW  - texture
KW  - non-ferrous alloys
KW  - material characterization
KW  - stress superposition
KW  - hot stamping
KW  - metal flow
KW  - hybrid composite material
KW  - V-bending test
KW  - finite element model
KW  - aluminium alloy
KW  - shear lap test
KW  - Al-Cu-Mg alloy
KW  - characterization
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1319
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52847
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783038979593
SN  - 9783038979586
TI  - Material and Process Design for Lightweight Structuresnull
ER  - 
