Structural Automotive Part Made From an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy Product and Method of its Manufacture

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14080507

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A method of manufacturing a formed aluminium alloy body-in-white (“BIW”) part of a motor vehicle, the BIW part having a yield strength of more than 500 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle. The method includes providing a rolled aluminium sheet product of an AlZnMgCu alloy and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm and subjected to a solution heat treatment (SHT) and quenched following SHT, and wherein the SHT and quenched aluminium sheet product has a substantially recrystallized microstructure, forming the aluminium alloy sheet to obtain a formed BIW part, assembling the formed BIW part with one or more other metal parts to form an assembly forming a motor vehicle component, subjecting the motor vehicle component to a paint bake cycle, wherein the aluminium alloy sheet in the formed BIW part has a yield strength of more than 500 MPa.

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ALERIS ALUMINUM KOBLENZ GMBH56070 KOBLENZ

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KHOSLA, Sunil Beverwijk, NL 21 140
Kröpfl, Ingo Günther Polch, DE 5 14
SCHEPERS,, SR Bruno Brasschaat, BE 1 4
SMEYERS,, SR Axel Alexander Maria Heist op den Berg, BE 1 4
SPANGEL, Sabine Maria Koblenz, DE 24 47
WISE, Alastair VC Santpoort-Noord, NL 5 34

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