HSS and UHSS offer high light-weighting potential for car body structural components. The large amount of springback after forming operations is currently limiting the market penetration of such steel grades, because of the large effort to be spent for tool design and tolerance satisfaction,...

The main objective of the HI-VEL project is to establish the feasibility of high velocity forming methods and to quantify the enhancement achievable with these techniques in the formability of high strength steel (HSS) and stainless steel sheets and tubes for automotive applications....