New Era of Steel is at Kickoff
As automobile industries are on fast track demand of all segment of automobile is increased many fold form the last 5 year. According to business today research report automobile sector saw a growth of 18% from 2003 to mid of 2008. After that due to recession it got some speed breaker but still it got a growth of 3% where every sector loses.
This rise in demand have pushed manufacture to demand more steel and to have extra edge they are investing too much on R&D sector for better material for car safety. That gave birth to a new stainless steel that is HYBRID SATINLESS STEEL ASSEMBLY (HSSA).
This HSSA is 50% to 60% lighter than normal 304 or 316 grade of stainless steel and 60% to 70% it can absorb shock or we can say harder. So it would have great use in making body parts of car where weight is biggest constrain with safety. By using this HSSA the car would be safer by 60-70% with its very light weight.
HSSA can also attain very thin thickness of about 20 micron so we can easily give that a many shape by keeping its hardness. It is having a very good deep drawing capability and it is formable too.
In HSSA SS 316 fiber is sandwiched between SS304 grade which give its unique characteristics which is better to any stainless steel grade.
Aluminum is also a good material for making automobile parts but it lacks in strength so HSSA is better than any material found so far with its great ahead.
This HSSA is under research work for finding its exact strength, stress and strain capacity and fatigue in Cambridge University and Volvo is also working on that for its implementation in automobile.
The only negative thing which I see in this material is its cost. Its cost is going to be too much as its R&D cost is going to be very much and its manufacturing cost will also be high. However when technology come it come with another technology for its cheap manufacturing as we saw in computer. I hope that when it will come to market it is going make a new era in steel industry.
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PRANJAL
thanks a lot Pranjal for your support..
ReplyDeletevery innovative research Ritesh.. keep up the good work!!
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ReplyDeleteVery informative article........and it is been covered very well.............keep going dude
ReplyDeletethank you Navin yaar..!
ReplyDeletegood start ritesh, keep going.........
ReplyDeleteis this HSSA is only for car?, wat abt the other purposes of this steel?, it was compared with aluminium only, other metals and low grade steels were nt compared, if it is so, it would be more powerful........
can u explain it?.......
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-rajasekar
HSSA is can be used in many application where we need strength as well as light weight so it is best suited for automobile where we need to have very good strength for safety and light weight for attaining speed without losing much fuel.
ReplyDeletei compared with aluminum because till now aluminum alloy is used for its light weight but it does not have much strength so it is the only drawback with aluminum alloy and if we use other grade of steel it would have strength but it would be heavy so we are in between to select strength and weight. so HSSA is the middle path with all good quality. so HSSA is going to rule in steel industry in coming future..i hope i answered all ur questions..