The next best is aluminum. It is lighter but harder to bend into tight shapes without cracking. It is also harder to weld in mass production. The most common sheet metal used in automotive to make bodies is steel. It is reasonably cheap and easy to press into shape to make body parts.

Despite the arrival of carbon fibre, Sheet metal forming is still of great importance to the automotive industry. Most high volume production cars are made from sheet metal. Metals are still the main materials used in the automotive industry. This is due to Metals being able to undergo plastic deformation. This means the metals can be made into most shapes.

Plastic deformation of metal act as the fundamental to all the sheet metal forming processes, without this property, metal will not be allowed to be shaped into all types of objects because they will break.

In the automotive industry the process of deformation starts with a blank. Blank is a metal in its basic form that will undergo the process. In the automotive industry the blank will most likely be made of a sheet of metal which then will cut, stamped or bent into shape.

The future of sheet metal in the automotive industry will largely depend on the future needs of the industry. With current tendency on lean manufacturing and cost cutting, the sheet metal forming process which suit that the most will be the most valuable to the industry.

Sheet metal is simply metal formed into thin and flat pieces. It is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking, and can be cut and bent into a variety of different shapes. Countless everyday objects are constructed of the material. Thicknesses can vary significantly, although extremely thin thicknesses are considered foil or leaf, and pieces thicker than 6 mm (0.25 in) are considered plate

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