Browsing by Author "Karabulut, Semih"
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Article Citation Count: 1Development of New Vehicle Safety Structures by Using Third Generation Steels(Sae int, 2022) Billur, Eren; Aydiner, Tamer; Aras, Firat; Celik, Hafize; Billur, Eren; Karabulut, Semih; Gumus, Iskender Onder; Automotive EngineeringResearch and development efforts in the automotive industry have been long focused on crashworthy, durable vehicles with the lowest mass possible as higher mass requires more energy and, thus, causes more CO2 emissions. One way of approaching these objectives is to reduce the total vehicle weight by using higher strength-to-weight ratio materials, such as Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS). Typically, as the steel gets stronger, its formability is reduced. The steel industry has been long developing (so-called) third-generation (Gen3) AHSS for the automotive industry. These grades offer higher formability compared to first-generation (Gent) and cost less compared to the second-generation (Gen2) AHSS. Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP)-aided Bainitic Ferrite (TBF) and Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P) steel families are considered to be the Gen3 AHSS. These grades can be cold-formed to more complex shapes, compared with the Geni Dual Phase (DP) and TRIP steels at equivalent strength levels. In this article, new single-piece A- and B-pillar reinforcements were designed using a Gen3 AHSS, TBF980. Spot-welding operations were eliminated due to part consolidation with the more formable steel. These parts will be the first structural automotive parts which were manufactured with cold-forming technology using TBF steels with a sstrength level close to 1 GPa or even more. Weight and cost reductions were realized by the new design while improving the crash performance.Article Citation Count: 1Mechanical Properties of Trip Aided Bainitic Ferrite (TBF) Steels in Production and Service Conditions(2018) Billur, Eren; Karabulut, Semih; Yılmaz, İmren Öztürk; Erzincanoğlu, Samet; Çelik, Hafize; Altınok, Evren; Başer, Tanya; Automotive EngineeringIn the automotive industry, one of the most common methods to reduce the weight of the body components is to downgage the sheets using higher strength steels. In the design phase, engineers typically use the material properties of the incoming material, suchas the yield strength and the elongation. For forming analyses, however, more detailedcharacterization is required (flow curves, anisotropy, forming limit curves, etc.). Once thecomponents are formed in the press shop, the yield strength increases due to work (strain)hardening. The parts are then welded in the body shop, and the body-in-white goes to thepaint shop where it is baked to cure the paint. Most steels’ yield strength changes duringthis paint bake cycle, which determines its final properties in service. Bake hardening (andin some cases, bake softening) is measured by Bake Hardening Index (BHI) as defined byEN 10325-2006. The standard dictates relatively low pre-strain (2%) and baking temperature (170°C). In real production conditions however, higher strains are achieved andbaking temperatures may exceed 170°C to shorten the baking time. In this study, a newgeneration Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) grade TBF 1050 was characterized formetal forming purposes and its bake hardening response was studied both as the standardsuggests and as the real production cycle dictates.