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Even the slightest change in creation of the metal can lead to changes in how that material performs when compared to previous deliveries from the same source.

Do you know how to order sheet steel? A good rule of thumb is to order as restrictive as you need for manufacturing success, but as general as you can to lower your purchasing costs. Knowing the proper terminology is key.

Forming products from advanced high-strength steels is a challenge. Understanding how these materials react during press feeding, straightening, blanking, and forming is necessary in designing production processes that run as efficiently as possible.

If you're in metal fabricating, you need to know metal grades. Our guide helps fabricators to understand sheet metal standards and what they are working with.

This primer provides metal fabricators and formers with a quick lesson on how one type of steel differs from another. As “impurities” are added to the element in its natural state, the atomic structure grows more complicated and gains more strength.

An estimated 3,500 different grades of steel currently exist, with about 75 percent of them developed in the past 20 years. And more than 500 sheet aluminum alloys are registered with the Aluminum Association. Each of these materials grades has a different chemistry and different tensile properties...

Part II of this series about sheet metal defects focuses on the common problems that can be caused during various stages of the material's production.

Ever wonder what makes up low-carbon steel? Material expert Daniel Schaeffler provides a quick overview.

Advanced high-strength steels are made differently in the steel mill, and they need to be processed differently in part manufacturing. WorldAutoSteel released forming and welding guidelines intended to help the users of these products work through the differences.

Advanced high strength steels spur stampers to think about metal forming in new ways.