ISO standards under development for steel high strain-rate test methods.(AUTOMOTIVE TRENDS)

The International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) Committee for Automotive Applications (AutoCo) is currently working on a project that its member companies hope will lead to an ISO standard for high strain-rate test methods. Critical to automotive crash and structural testing is having the correct steel high strain-rate data. Steel high strain-rate performance is superior to that of competing materials, a factor that is well known in the automotive industry. At high strain rate, as in a vehicle crash, steel gets stronger, absorbing more energy. Automotive engineers build steel ...