Thyssen Stahl Ag

Thyssenkrupp Stahl Ag

Klaus Blumel

Friedrich Behr

Thomas Flehmig

Hans Pircher

Uwe Kneiphoff

Christian Hager

The invention relates to a light structural steel plate in the form of a hump plate and to a process for its production. The light structural steel plate comprises a mould-pressed steel hump plate (1) and a flat aluminium plate (3) connected thereto substance-to-substance at a the hump end faces. The substance-to-substance connection is produced by the feature that after the surfaces to be interconnected at the hump end faces have been activated by means of a laser beam (5), said surfaces are metallically connected under pressure. The decisive factor is that the material of the plates (1, 2) does not pass into the molten phase during activation by means of the laser beam (5).

Light structural metal plate in the form of a hump plate and process for

The invention relates to a double-layered sheet metal with a first layer (5) of sheet metal comprising indented knobs (4.sub.I -4.sub.IV ; 4.sub.V -4.sub.VII ; 4.sub.VIII -4.sub.XIII), with several of these knobs forming the corner points of a geometrical segment (8.sub.I, 8.sub.II, 8.sub.III) of the first layer (5) of sheet metal, with a second layer (6) of sheet metal which is connected to the first layer (5) of sheet metal in the area of the tips (4a) of the knobs (4.sub.I -4.sub.IV ; 4.sub.V -4.sub.VII ; 4.sub.VIII -4.sub.XIII), and with a filling (7) made of filling material arranged in the void remaining between the layers (5, 6) of sheet metal. With such a double-layered sheet metal the danger of 'total failure' in the case of a load exceeding elastically endured deformation is reduced in that the geometrical segment (8.sub.I, 8.sub.II, 8.sub.III) comprises at least one indentation (10) by means of which any deformation of the double-layered sheet metal caused by a bending load is directed towards the filling (7) in the void. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing such a double-layered sheet metal.

Double-layered sheet metal; process for its production and use of such

The invention relates to the production of a metal strip having formed-in thinner areas. To this end the strip B is drawn through a drawing nip 1, 2 formed by the end face of a working roll 3 adjusted at an angle and a support roll 4, which can take the form of a working roll. When drawing takes place through the working nip 1, 2, a rolling force and simultaneously a tensile force transversely of the pulling direction are so exerted on the strip B by the two rolls 3, 4 that the displaced material flows practically exclusively transversely of the pulling direction in the areas to be thinned down.

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Dinslaken, Germany

Klaus Blumel