A recent development in sheet metal forming industry is the application of tailored blanks: blanks prepared from separate pieces of sheet material, welded together prior to the forming process. The pieces of sheet material can have different properties, enabling weight reduction of components, corrosion resistance using cathodic protection or the possibility to create local weak spots, resultin...

Yanli Song 1,2,3,*, Cheng Yu 1,2,3, Hailong Yu 3 and Chenyu Zhao 3 1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology of Automotive Parts, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China; [email protected] 2 Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Automotive Components Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China 3 School of Automotive Engineering, Wuhan University of T...

Tailor-welded blanks (TWB) are blanks with sheets of similar or dissimilar thicknesses, materials, coatings welded in a single plane before forming. Applications of TWB include car door inner panel, deck lids, bumper, side frame rails etc. in automotive sector (Kusuda et al., 1997; Pallet & Lark, 2001). Aluminium TWBs are widely used in automotive industries because of their great benefits in r...