This is a list of common steel types used in the automotive industry. Notice the overlap of steels in the different classes?
Standard Steels
- Commercial steel (CS)
- Drawing steel (DS)
- Deep drawing steel (DDS)
- Interstitial-free (IF)
Mild High-Strength Steels
- Bake hardenable (BH)
- Isotropic (IS)
- Carbon-Manganese (CMn)
- High-strength low alloy (HSLA)
- Dual Phase (DP) – Complex phase (CP)
- Transformation induced plasticity (TRIP)
- Martensitic (MART)
Ultra High-Strength Steels
- Dual Phase (DP) – Complex phase (CP)
- Transformation induced plasticity (TRIP)
- Martensitic (MART)
- UHSS alloyed with boron (BOR)