Advanced light metals, including aluminum, magnesium, and titanium alloys, are
increasingly being used in the automotive industry for weight reduction and structural …

This chapter highlights the manufacturing processes used to fabricate lightweight
automotive parts. The chapter provides an overview of aluminum and magnesium alloys …

Rising energy costs, consumer preferences and regulations drive requirements for fuel
economy, performance, comfort, safety and cost of future automobiles. These conflicting …

The automotive product design and manufacturing community is continually besieged by
Hercule an engineering, timing, and cost challenges. Nowhere is this more evident than in …

The combination of light metals (aluminum, magnesium and titanium) and innovative casting
processes provides cost-effective technologies to produce lightweight components and …

As a result of more stringent requirements for improved fuel economy and emissions, there
is a growing trend to substitute Al and Mg for conventional steel and cast irons in vehicles …

This paper presents an overview and examples of material design and development using
(1) classical thermodynamics;(2) CALPHAD (calculation of phase diagrams) modeling; and …

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This 3-volume set presents the
proceedings of the seventh International Conferences on Aluminum Alloys: Their Physical …

Major advances have been made over the past 30 years in the development of an integrated
computational materials design (ICMD) technology. The hierarchical structure of its methods …

In recent years, automotive lightweighting efforts have led to increased use of wrought
aluminium alloys for structural and body components. This chapter begins by outlining the …