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Automotive is an inseparable part of the modern society and accounts for a sizeable share of our economy. It is a complex engineering product today, demanding a combination of properties for its variety of components. Notwithstanding the development of new materials and their increasing use, the iron-base materials still occupy the dominant position amongst the materials of construction of an automobile and represent around 64 percent of the weight, in which the share of steel is around 57 percent in a typical passenger car today. In a passenger vehicle . In a passenger car, the body-in-white (BIW) accounts for ~ 35% of the total weight and is a very demanding area, particularly because it is singularly responsible for the safety of the passenger (against crash).
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