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4 A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 8 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Frances Richards, Editor-in-Chief frances.richards@asminternational.org Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Ed Kubel and Corinne Richards, Contributing Editors Jim Pallotta, Creative Director jim.pallotta@asminternational.org Jan Nejedlik, Layout and Design Kelly Sukol, Production Manager kelly.sukol @asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Adam Farrow, Chair, Los Alamos National Lab John Shingledecker, Vice Chair, EPRI Somuri Prasad, Past Chair, Sandia National Lab Ellen Cerreta, Board Liaison, Los Alamos National Lab Tomasz Chojnacki, Caterpillar Inc. Mario Epler, Carpenter Technology Corp. Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota Nia Harrison, Ford Motor Company Yaakov Idell, NIST Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology Scott Olig, U.S. Naval Research Lab Anand Somasekharan, Los Alamos National Lab Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin Jaimie Tiley, U.S. Air Force Research Lab ASMBOARDOF TRUSTEES Frederick E. Schmidt , Jr., President and Chair of the Board David U. Furrer, Vice President William E. Frazier, Immediate Past President Craig D. Clauser, Treasurer Prem K. Aurora Ellen K. Cerreta Ryan M. Deacon Larry D. Hanke Roger A. Jones Thomas M. Moore Sudipta Seal Judith A. Todd John D. Wolodko William T. Mahoney, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer STUDENT BOARDMEMBERS Mari-Therese Burton, Olga Eliseeva, Jonathan Healy Individual readers of Advanced Materials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for per- sonal or archival use, or may freely make such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote fromarticles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. H ow’d you like the Porsche 911 on our spring cover? Besides serving as a beautiful example of automotive engineering, it also pays tribute to the evolution taking place in the industry and the recent move toward using more magnesium. Weighing in at 75% lighter than high-strength steel and 33% lighter than aluminum, it’s easy to understand why automakers want to use magnesium in their designs. Today, more than 98% of all structural applications for mag- nesium are enabled by the casting process. However, taking automotive magnesium to the next level will require sheet metal forming—not an easy task considering the element’s poor formability at room temperature. To see how CanmetMaterials is progressing with their rolling research, check out our cover story beginning on page 16. Just as new magnesium applications are now making headway, it wasn’t too long ago that automotive aluminumwas a rising star. Rewind back to 1899— and turn to page 22—to learn about the early days of automotive aluminum in the first installment of a five-part series on this important industry segment. Working on this article, which includes the debut of Ford’s Model T Fordor, felt somewhat bittersweet in light of the company’s recent initiative to drastically trim North American car production. In 1923, Ford produced more than 143,000 Fordors in the U.S. during that first model year, using aluminum to keep the ve- hicle’s body weight down. At the same time, auto body sheet steel was making significant headway, often beating out aluminum in terms of cost. Even so, au- tomotive aluminum continued to evolve as it was designed into several brands and models worldwide. This first article ends in 1948 and we’re looking forward to the next history lesson in our July/August issue. Back to that bittersweet feeling. Even though the trend has been accelerat- ing over the past few years, I was still surprised by Ford’s plan to cut its passen- ger car lineup to just two models for North America—the Mustang and a hatch- back called Focus Active. So, it’s bye-bye-bye to the Fusion, Focus, Fiesta, and Taurus. Industry analysts at LMC Automotive say they expect nearly 73% of U.S. consumer vehicle sales to be utility vehicles by 2022, with the remaining 27% in traditional cars. LMC forecasts that 90% of Ford’s sales will be SUVs, trucks, and crossovers by 2022, with GM at 84% and Chrysler at 97%. Nevertheless, consum- er preferences, gas prices, and profit margins will continue to shape the choices available at dealer showrooms and lots. In other automotive news, we hope you enjoy the HTPro newsletter includ- ed in this issue. One of the articles comes from engineers at Ford’s Virtual Man- ufacturing facility and discusses the use of virtual tools to study aluminum cyl- inder head quenching processes. Special congratulations go to James Jan and Madhusudhan Nannapuraju for their fine work on this article, which was recently honored with the ASM Heat Treating Society Prime Contributor recognition. The aim of the new honor is to recognize outstanding industry-focused manuscripts and to encourage submissions to both HTPro and the Heat Treat conference, which takes place every other year. If you would like to submit an article to either HTPro or AM&P, we would love to hear from you. AUTOMOTIVE ALLOYS AND OTHER TRENDS frances.richards@asminternational.org