Fatigue Performance Evaluation of Forged Steel vs. Ductile Cast Iron Crankshaft - Executive Summary
The University of Toledo Executive Summary outlines its test results of the fatigue performance of forged steel vs. ductile cast iron crankshafts.

Fatigue Performance Comparison and Life Predictions of Forged Steel and Ductile Cast Iron Crankshafts (5MB)
This study evaluated and compared the fatigue performance of two competing manufacturing technologies for automotive crankshafts.

Stress Analysis and Optimization of Crankshafts Subject to Dynamic Loading (6.5 MB)
This study investigated weight and cost reduction opportunities for a forged steel crankshaft.

Bar Steel Machinability
The AISI Bar Machinability Sub-committee was formed in 1991 to develop a database of automotive bar steel machinability under single point carbide turning conditions.

Dynamic Load Analysis and Optimization of Connecting Rods
An AISI sponsored study confirming the benefits of using C-70 steel that can reduce the cost for making forged connecting rods by 25 percent, and can reduce mass about 10 percent, while enhancing performance and durability.

Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement
A report that highlights the life cycle cost analysis and benefit-cost analysis of four different approaches to highway construction.

Bar Steel Fatigue Database
The Bar and Rod Market Development Group (BRMDG) of AISI has recently expanded its online Bar Steel Fatigue Database with 21 new grade/process iterations, making fatigue data available on a total of 42 steel grade/process combinations. This database provides engineers with accurate and detailed component fatigue life predictions that allow them to optimize critical powertrain and chassis component designs. The database contains steel bar mechanical property and fatigue information for optimizing component part design, reducing component design cycle time and selecting the best steel grade and process for the part, in less time and at reduced costs.

Fatigue Performance Evaluation of Forged Versus Competing Manufacturing Process Technologies
Cast iron, cast aluminum, forged steel and powder metallurgy are material and manufacturing techniques from which auto engineers must choose the most appropriate for any given application. A study by the University of Toledo, prepared for the AISI Bar Applications Group, examines these manufacturing technologies to compare fatigue performance, to develop a general durability assessment methodology, and to develop a method for efficient and reliable optimization of such components.

The World's Top 10 Best Engines Use Steel
An overview of Ward’s AutoWorld Magazines’ winners for the 10 Best Engines for 2004. The overview focuses on steel usage in these particular engines with the emphasis on steel bar and rod and notes the change from specific materials previously used on the type of engine with comments regarding any far reaching effects it might have on the bar and rod industry.

Development of a Standard Methodology for the Quantitative Measurement of Steel Phase Transformation Kinetics and Dilation Strains Using Dilatometric Methods (QMST)
A technical paper on standard practices for obtaining and archiving quantitative steel transformation kinetic data and thermal strain data that will greatly assist endusers in developing accurate process and product simulations during the thermo-mechanical processing of bar and rod product steels.