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Items Tagged with 'lightweighting'

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Bill Mayer
December 7, 2020
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As you’re well aware, FORGE publishes six issues a year – now digitally. And I’m sure you’ve visited our website, www.forgemag.com, on a regular basis for news and technical content. But do you know some of the other resources FORGE has to offer?


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Lightweighting Ideas for Hybrid Vehicles and Heavy-Duty Trucks

This fourth article about Germany’s Lightweight Forging Initiative (now with international industry support) focuses on potential weight savings through innovative material selection and forging part and process design. This continuation of the article from June examines additional specific lightweighting opportunities on a hybrid car and a heavy-duty truck.
August 1, 2019
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Forging technology has undergone continuous development during the past few years.


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Germany's Lightweight Forging Initiative for Hybrid Vehicles and Heavy-Duty Trucks

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.
June 4, 2019
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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.


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Innovative Heat Treatment for Weight Reduction of Heavy Components

James Lowrie Gracious Ngaile
October 11, 2017
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This article focuses on another method for forgers to provide lightweight components, namely innovative heat-treatment schemes.


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Lightweighting, a Heavy Favorite

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Dean M. Peters
April 5, 2017
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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.


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Magnesium (Mg) is appealing for automotive applications, such as tire rims

Magnesium Forgings – Challenges and Opportunities

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Dr. Mary Wells
April 3, 2017
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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.


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Weight-Reduction Potential for Heavy-Duty Power Transmission Shafts

James Lowrie Gracious Ngaile
December 5, 2016
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This article examines the weight-saving potential in using bimetallic or hollow components on heavy-duty vehicles and the obstacles to their production.


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Lightweight Forging Initiative Seeking Partners

October 25, 2016
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With increasingly stringent CO2-emission standards in the U.S., OEMs and system suppliers are seeking lightweight solutions.


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Phase II of the Lightweight Forging Initiative focuses on a Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV)

Germany's Lightweight Forging Initiative

Phase II: Lightweight Potential for a Light Commercial Vehicle
Hans-Willi Raedt Frank Wilke Christian-Simon Ernst
June 6, 2016
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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.


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The forging industry contributes to the automotive trend of lightweight design

Germany’s Lightweight Forging Initiative for Autos

Hans-Willi Raedt Frank Wilke Christian-Simon Ernst
April 4, 2016
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The Lightweight Forging Initiative was formed to emphasize the contributions that forging makes to the automotive megatrend of lightweight design.


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