Automotive Steels: Design, Metallurgy, Processing and Applications

Automotive Steels: Design, Metallurgy, Processing and Applications explores the design, processing, metallurgy, and applications of automotive steels. While some sheet steels are produced routinely in high volume today, there have been significant advances in the use of steel in the automotive industry.

This book presents these metallurgical and application aspects in a way that is not available in the current literature. The editors have assembled an international team of experts who discuss recent developments and future prospects for automotive steels, compiling essential reading for both academic and industrial metallurgists, automotive design engineers, and postgraduate students attending courses on the metallurgy of automotive materials.

• Presents recent developments on the design, metallurgy, processing, and applications of automotive steels
• Discusses automotive steels that are currently in the early stages of research, such as low-density and high modulus steels that are driving future development
• Covers traditional steels, advanced high strength steels, elevated Mn steels and ferrous composite materials

Dr Radhakanta Rana is a research associate at the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center, Colorado School of Mines, USA. He has been engaged in automotive materials research for the last 11 years working on various types of steels including interstitial free steels, TRIP-aided bainitic ferritic steels, complex phase steels, medium and high Mn steels, high Al low-density steels, high modulus steels, and quenching and partitioning steels. He serves on the Review Board for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, is a member of the TMS Steel Experts Adhoc Committee, and is an active reviewer for more than 10 international materials journals.

Professor Shiv Brat Singh is a full Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience, mainly on the physical metallurgy of steels.