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In part I of this series, we have discussed the basic construction of a composite material. In this article attempt is made to present a select list of important applications of composite materials in automotive industry.
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Composite materials have found extensive use among many industries including automotive. Vehicles are supposed to be lightweight, have low emission and energy consumption to provide some environmental protection while having appropriate stiffness and strength to assure occupant protection. These requirements can be met with the use of composite materials. Although composites have been present in the industry for decades, their use in the automotive sector is moderately new, which requires development in design and manufacturing processes, testing, and recycling - this paper indicates the details by which the automotive industry differs from others. Principal recycling methods, related legislation, and where recycling products are used are described. Specific uses of composite materials that show a high level of innovativeness are indicated - hybrid and natural composites, structural batteries, and high-performance vehicles.
Composites in Manufacturing of Vehicles
2002
The trends of development and usage of composite materials in automotive industry were investigated. The major efforts of the automotive industry are focused on developing and manufacturing of lighter vehicles with reduced fuel consumption and reduced gas emission. More and more car companies are considering the usage of composites in semi-structural applications because composites offer the ability for lighter weight vehicles with fewer corrosion problems. In this paper, emphasis is placed on analyses of roles and properties of polymer matrix composites witch are the most common used composites in automotive industry and metal matrix composites. The relative growing rate of composite applications is in stagnation mainly because of their high price and high cost of manufacturing processes.
An introduction to automotive composites
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International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, 2023
The purpose of this overview is to discover materials commonly used in the automotive industry and provide an overview of optimized composites to reduce weight, cost, fuel consumption ,and CO2 emissions. The cost of carbon fiber, Al, and Mg lightweight composites is much higher than conventional materials. It is therefore important for research and development in the areas of reducing costs, improving recyclability, enabling integration ,and maximizing vehicle fuel efficiency. To meet these characteristics, natural fibers have better properties and, in addition to being environmentally friendly, will become the material of choice for the future automotive industry. Natural fibers Composites can reduce weight by 10-60%. Researchers are already working with bio composites, investigating not only the economic aspects but also the properties and associated manufacturing processes for environmentally friendly transportation and CO2 reduction.
Advanced composites for the body and chassis of a production high performance car
International Journal of Vehicle Design, 2007
Carbon fibre composites can offer a great deal of weight saving and manufacturing flexibility in the design of a high performance vehicle, while decades of research in metal science have produced manufacturing techniques that guarantee perfect surface finish, alloys that can withstand weathering agents during the lifetime of a vehicle and very reliable joining methods, these relatively new materials require constant evaluation in automotive applications to ensure equal if not greater performance than their metallic counterpart. This paper highlights the fundamental contributions of advanced composites in the production of the body panels and integrated chassis components for the Murcièlago and Murcièlago Roadster.
Emerging composite material use in current electric vehicle: A review
Materials Today: Proceedings, 2018
Today composite has been dominant emerging materials widely using in aerospace, automotive, marine industries. Worldwide automobile transportation and industry have been growing at the fast rate in past few decades especially in urban area. Current IC vehicles are creating a hung amount of pollution due to lower efficiency and heavyweight in road transportation sector. Therefore global automotive industry shifts towards the lightweight composite materials used for vehicles fabrication. Composites materials are more popular in automobile industries because of its lightweight, long life, superior physical, mechanical (i.e. fatigue resistant) properties and it can easily be molded in any shape as compared to traditional metals. As the customer awareness has increased over time, researchers are giving emphasis to automotive light weighting. Few advanced composites materials are relatively more expensive than metals and its selection will depend on the basis of a tradeoff between the cost and performance. This research paper focuses on recent trends in emerging composite material used in automotive industry at present time and its effects on the global automotive market is also discussed. However, the global demand for carbon saving and green mobility is fulfilled by the use of composite material in automation sector. Furthermore, recommendations for future research priorities to overcome these challenges and problems are presented.
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Carbon Fiber Composites Applications for Auto Industries
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Carbon fiber composite drive shaft having crush worthiness which had been developed for rear drive passenger cars will be described. Crash load generated during head collision can be absorbed by newly developed joining technology with no adhesive between carbon fiber composite tube and steel adapter. This technology can add safety value to passenger cars in addition to conventional advantages of composite drive shaft such as weight and noise reductions. Its materials, design concept, performance data of the composite drive shaft system will be discussed in the paper. Background Use of carbon fiber composite tube as drive shafts have been well known and considered to be one of the promising solutions to reduce vehicle weight and NVH (noise, vibration and harshness). A lot of research and development have been carried out and it has been already proved that carbon fiber composite tube made by filament winding technology can meet basic requirements of drive shaft such as torque capabil...