{"id":8462,"date":"2019-01-03T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/hts-new\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/36182783\/NEWS\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:48:52","slug":"ak-steel-uses-neutron-spallation-source-at-oak-ridge-to-improve-manufacture-of-ahss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/hts\/ak-steel-uses-neutron-spallation-source-at-oak-ridge-to-improve-manufacture-of-ahss\/","title":{"rendered":"AK Steel uses neutron spallation source at Oak Ridge to improve manufacture of AHSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, accepted an award of up to <money style=\"box-sizing:border-box; outline:none medium\">$1.2 million<\/money> last October from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Office program to investigate novel low-density steels that could ultimately be used in automotive structural applications.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\">Specifically, scientists from AK Steel are using neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory&#8217;s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) to discover how different manufacturing processes affect the performance of the company&#8217;s new advanced high-strength steel (AHSS), called Nexmet 1000. Neutrons, unlike electrons or X-rays, are highly penetrating, nondestructive, and sensitive to lighter elements, making them an ideal probe for this novel category of steel materials.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\">&#8220;The Vulcan instrument at the SNS provides information about the crystal structure of AHSS during different stages of the stamping process that we cannot get anywhere else in the United States,&#8221; said Wei Wu of AK Steel. &#8220;This data will be vital to improving our manufacturing methods and will make it easier to quickly identify the best new materials to blend with Nexmet 1000 to produce lighter, safer, and more durable automotive components.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The three-year project is being conducted in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Materials Science and Technology Division, and the <org style=\"box-sizing:border-box; outline:none medium\">Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center<\/org> in the <org style=\"box-sizing:border-box; outline:none medium\">Department of Metallurgical &amp; Materials Engineering<\/org> at the <org style=\"box-sizing:border-box; outline:none medium\">Colorado School of Mines<\/org>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The objective of the project is to conduct alloy design, laboratory validation, and testing of low density steels that are alternatives to currently available advanced high strength steels and other lightweight metals. These low density steels are expected to generate energy savings by bringing efficiencies in manufacturing and lifetime savings in automotive structural applications.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=tDQgaJIe54Oe-eGvbUULZHAyAPUItW_gxG47YaZev6ef5P78PM5ctdjUGMJ_SFfgfo7XTE7gYigbab6fUlzbcw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#2087c1\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"text-underline:none\">www.aksteel.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, accepted an award of up to $1.2 million last October from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Office program to investigate novel low-density steels that could ultimately be used in automotive structural applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[446,448,440,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobiles-and-ground-transportation","category-materials-processing-and-treatment","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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