Contents
Preface
1 Low-carbon strip steels
Overview
General processing considerations
Underlying metallurgical principles
Cold-forming behaviour
Work-hardening coefficients and normal anisotropy
True stress and true strain
The strain ratio r or Lankford value
The work-hardening coefficient n
Forming limit diagrams
Other forming effects
Surface roughness
Use of laser-welded tailored blanks
Hydroforming
Roll forming
Finite element modelling
Strip steel manufacture
Mild or low-strength steels
Continuously annealed, aluminium-killed steel
High-strength steels
Zinc-coated steels
Production methods
Corrosion resistance
Cold-forming behaviour
Other hot dip coatings
Organic-coated steels
Steel prices
Tinplate
Method of manufacture
Canmaking processes
Joining methods
Welding
Mechanical joining
Joining using fasteners
Use of adhesives in weldbonding, clinchbonding and rivbonding
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