Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Voestalpine Automotive Components Cartersville Inc.

Voestalpine Metal Forming Gmbh

Markus Pfestorf

Dieter Hartmann

Martin Kerscher

Lukasz Goldyn

Daniel Augustin

Wilhelm Weinmeister

Florian Nessel

Sven Kleinhans

Martin Brandhuber

Christian Dragoi

A method for producing a sheet metal component, in particular a motor vehicle structural component, includes the following steps: providing a basic structure consisting of a hot formable material, arranging at least one reinforcing structure in a region to be reinforced of the basic structure, preliminarily or definitively fixing the reinforcing structure to the basic structure, in particular by an integrally bonded connection, cold forming the basic structure with the reinforcing structure arranged thereon, and press hardening the basic structure with the reinforcing structure arranged thereon.

Method for producing a sheet metal component

A method and a device for heating a sheet metal blank or a formed sheet metal component above the austenitization temperature for the purpose of quench hardening, wherein the dew point of the furnace atmosphere is set to &#x2212;15&#xb0; C. to 15&#xb0; C., preferably to &#x2212;10&#xb0; C. to 10&#xb0; C., in particular for the formation of a loosely adhering oxide skin, for controlling an oxide skin on the sheet metal or component coated with a metallic corrosion protection layer or an uncoated sheet metal or component.

Method and device for heating a steel blank for hardening purposes

A method for producing a high strength tube part is provided. The method includes the acts of: producing a sheet metal blank, producing a tube part by cold forming the sheet metal blank, and hardening the tube part at least in some sections to a high strength tube part.

Method for producing a high strength tube part

A press-hardened shaped metal sheet has at least two adjacent zones having different sheet thicknesses and different strengths such that one of the zones is press-hardened and the other zone is non-hardened or only slightly hardened. A transition zone, which is simultaneously designed as a thickness transition zone and as a strength transition zone, is located between the zones. The press-hardened shaped metal sheet is preferably a pillar reinforcement for a motor vehicle body.

Press-hardened shaped metal sheet having different sheet thicknesses and strengths

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