This third article in a series about Germany’s Lightweight Forging Initiative (begun April 2016) focuses on potential weight savings through innovative material selection and forging part and process design. In this segment, potential weight savings on a hybrid vehicle and heavy-duty truck are considered.

This article focuses on another method for forgers to provide lightweight components, namely innovative heat-treatment schemes.

Lightweighting, a term that started in the automobile industry in response to calls to increase automotive energy efficiencies, has taken hold in a big way.

Lightweighting initiatives for automotive and aerospace applications have stimulated interest in magnesium as a forging material. Learn about the advantages and limitations of magnesium and research programs that are under way to find the best way to process and forge it.

This article examines the weight-saving potential in using bimetallic or hollow components on heavy-duty vehicles and the obstacles to their production.

With increasingly stringent CO₂-emission standards in the U.S., OEMs and system suppliers are seeking lightweight solutions.

Germany’s Lightweight Forging Initiative continues with its Phase II, in which a light commercial vehicle is dismantled and its appropriate component parts are examined for weight-saving by forging, material selection and design parameters.

The Lightweight Forging Initiative was formed to emphasize the contributions that forging makes to the automotive megatrend of lightweight design.

Alcoa has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Army worth up to $50 million for R&D projects focused on developing innovative, lightweighting solutions for ground combat vehicles.

During the past decade, there has been an increase in R&D efforts geared toward weight reduction in passenger cars.