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Automotive Aluminum, Part 12: Aluminum on the Ford-F150 and Beyond

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2021) 179 (8): 16–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2021-08.p016
Published: 01 November 2021
Abstract
The conclusion of this article series reviews the lasting impact of Ford’s extensive use of aluminum on some of its most popular, high-volume vehicles. It addresses future prospects for aluminum auto body sheet (ABS) production and challenges associated with electric vehicle development.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 11: They Made it Look Easy

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2021) 179 (1): 24–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2021-01.p024
Published: 01 January 2021
Abstract
Ford’s aluminum F-150 venture was now entering the development phase, with teams in place that would spend the next 18 months designing both the truck and the facilities to produce it.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 10: In the Midst of the Great Recession, Ford Quietly Goes All In

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2020) 178 (5): 26–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2020-05.p026
Published: 01 July 2020
Abstract
Ford begins to reassess its capacity to develop and launch an aluminum-intensive platform on its own. This article discusses the planning for the aluminum-bodied F-150 in the context of the difficult economic conditions that Ford and the rest of the industry were operating under during the 2008-2010 period.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 9: Obstacles on the Road to Aluminum Vehicle Production

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2019) 177 (8): 24–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2019-08.p024
Published: 01 November 2019
Abstract
Industry consolidation, lubricant concerns, and springback issues continued to test automakers and materials producers as they worked toward aluminum-intensive vehicles in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 8: Baby Steps Toward High Volume Production of Body Structures

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2019) 177 (6): 25–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2019-06.p025
Published: 01 September 2019
Abstract
Automakers and aluminum producers make headway in lightweight vehicle development in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 7: Aluminum Intensive Vehicles Make Headway

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2019) 177 (4): 20–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2019-04.p020
Published: 01 May 2019
Abstract
Launching an aluminum vehicle into production is a far greater challenge than building a fleet of prototypes. This installment in the series reviews progress made in the 1990s.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 6: In Pursuit of Lightweight Body Structures, 1972-1987

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2019) 177 (3): 18–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2019-03.p018
Published: 01 April 2019
Abstract
The largest and heaviest component in a car is the body structure, so it was only natural to make this the focus of advanced R&D in the 1970s and 1980s for aluminum auto body applications.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 5: Process Improvements Leading to Mass Production, 1977-1997

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2019) 177 (1): 24–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2019-01.p024
Published: 01 January 2019
Abstract
When the first aluminum hood launched in 1977, the mills were delivering rectangular blanks separated by paper to protect the delicate outer surfaces. This article reviews important advances in aluminum forming and heat treating in the latter part of the twentieth century.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 4: 15 Years of Alloy Development, 1975-1990

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2018) 176 (8): 14–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2018-08.p014
Published: 01 November 2018
Abstract
As the American car companies moved toward the use of aluminum auto body sheet in the early 1970s, they brought with them a mindset very different from that of the aerospace industry.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 3: European Developments Continue

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2018) 176 (6): 14–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2018-06.p014
Published: 01 September 2018
Abstract
In the early 1950s, European carmakers faced stringent fuel economy targets that their American counterparts would only confront 20 years later. This article reviews developments in Europe from the post-war period to the 1970s.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 2: The Great American Awakening, the Oil Crisis

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2018) 176 (5): 18–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2018-05.p018
Published: 01 July 2018
Abstract
When the Big Three automakers started thinking about replacing steel sheet with aluminum, they found an industry vastly different from the Alcoa-dominated world of the pre-war era. This article describes developments from the period after World War II thorough the early 1970s.
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Automotive Aluminum, Part 1: the Early Days, 1899-1948

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Laurent Chappuis, Robert Sanders
Journal: AM&P Technical Articles
AM&P Technical Articles (2018) 176 (4): 22–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.amp.2018-04.p022
Published: 01 May 2018
Abstract
The early days of aluminum development occurred between 1886 and 1948, when the aluminum and automotive industries were both new and undergoing rapid changes in technology and scales of production.
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