Great Designs in Steel 2006
Seminar Presentations

Morning Session

BMW - Functional Properties of High-Strength Steel in the Body-in-White
Dr. Markus Pfestorf
BMW Group

Utilization of Advanced High-Strength Steels in the 2006 Pontiac Solstice
David Friddell and Warren Parsons
General Motors Corporation

Use of High-Strength Steels and Advanced High-Strength Steels in Chrysler Vehicles
Vinay C. Shah
DaimlerChrysler Corporation

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Impact Testing and Modeling of DP600 Front Rails
Tau Tyan
Ford Motor Company

Cost Savings for Rocker Reinforcements through Material Conversion
Jacob Cheriyan
Ford Motor Company

Tubular Design Development and Application of HSLA and DP600 Steels in a Rear Suspension Support Structure
Stefano Lepre
Dofasco Automotive Components

Advanced High-Strength Steel Applications Using Tailor-Welded Blanks (Guidelines to Designers)
Frank Mei
TWB Corporation

Flexible Rolling Technologies (Tailor Rolled Blanks)
Dr. Michael Rehse
Mubea, Inc.

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Track 2

Optimization Side Crash Performance Using a Hot Stamped B-Pillar
Bryan Macek
Benteler Automotive

Lightweight SUV Frame Technologies, Light Truck Frame Joint Toolkit
Arun Kumar
Altair Engineering

Flex Wheels: A Success Story in Replacing Aluminum Wheels with Steel
Tom Heck
Hayes Lemmerz International

The Next Generation Bumper Technology and  The P-Tech Process
Thomas Vikstrom
Pullman Industries

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Innovations in Steel Fuel Tanks
Dr. Peter Mould
Strategic Alliance for Steel Fuel Tanks

Track 3

Advanced High-Strength Steel Technology - Seat Track
Timothy McNaughton
Dura Automotive

New Technologies for Rollform Intensive Autobody Structures
Heinrich Weber
DREISTERN GmbH & Co. KG

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Springback and Sidewall Curl Correction on DP600 and TRIP 700 U-Channels by Electromagnetic Pulses
Edurne Iriondo
LABEIN Technological Research Center

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High-Strength Steel Stamping
Dr. Jim Fekete
General Motors Corporation

Experience with Advanced High Strength Steels - Die Development (Tooling Development)
Jay Baron
Center for Automotive Research

Direct and Indirect Non-Destructive Measurement of Die Wear in Stamping Production - A Novel Technique for Monitoring and Quantifying Draw Die Wear
Dr. Huimin Liu
Ford Motor Company

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Temperature Effects on Draw Bead Friction for AHSS
Mike Shih
United States Steel Corporation

Better Tool Steels for Better Dies
Ed Severson
Bohler – Uddeholm

Track 4

Advanced High-Strength Steel for Forging Applications
Marie-Thérèse PERROT-SIMONETTA
Mittal Steel Europe R&D

Top Ten Best Engines Use Steel
Alan Hine
Automotive Consultant

Development of New Microalloy Steel Grades for Lightweight Suspension Systems
Mel Head
Stelco Inc.

Predicting Fatigue Life of Welded Joints under Multiaxial Loads
Eric Krupitzer
DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Great Automotive Steel Designs Enabled By Advances in Adhesive Bonding
Mansour Mirdamadi, Greg Korchnak
Dow Automotive

Friction Stir Spot Welding of Advanced High-Strength Steel
Dr. Tsung-Yu Pan
Ford Motor Company

Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) Of Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) – Developments For Optimized Weld Control and Improved Weld Quality
Adrian Elliott
Ford Motor Company

Resistance Spot Welding of Coated High-Strength Dual-Phase Steels
Murali Tumuluru
United States Steel Corporation

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