New Lightweight Structures for Advanced Automotive Vehicles–Safe and Modular

Kopp, Gundolf; Beeh, Elmar; Schšll, Roland; Kobilke, Alexander; Straßburger, Philipp; Krieschera, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.1015

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“…The combination of FRPCs with advanced metal alloys, known as "multi-material", remains an important R&D area that requires considerable further works. In addition, their design should be developed aiming for individual mobility whilst also retaining safety, environmental friendliness and affordability [2]. In recent years, a number of series production models were introduced to the market, serving to demonstrate the technical feasibility of applying the multi-material BiW approach to lower production volume, high-performance vehicle segments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the new generation of vehicles must be lighter, less polluting and more fuel-efficient. Their design should be developed aiming for individual mobility whilst also retaining safety, environmental friendliness and affordability [2]. These issues can be overcome by a strategy combining light structures and multifunctional materials.…”

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confidence: 99%

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State of the Art on Graphene Lightweighting Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications

Elmarakbi¹,

Azoti²

2018

Experimental Characterization, Predictive Mechanical and Thermal Modeling of Nanostructures and Their Polymer Composites

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This work presents a state of the art SoA of recent developments related to the lightweighting of automotive structure by introduction graphene as material constituents. It proposes some innovative directions in terms of technological manufacturing and process for a better understanding of the graphene contribution for enhancing multifunctional properties of nanocomposites. Likewise, the general context of research trends is presented along with the novel composites solutions for the design of lightweight materials using graphene-based polymer composites. The need for developing a modelling strategy is discussed in terms of simulation and optimisation of the multifunctional properties as well as the hierarchical modelling of hybrid composites. The large-scale production is presented through the existing process and manufacturing engineering. And finally, the industrial feasibility of such composite is presented by a demonstrator development and the life cycle analysis.

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Section: Novel Composites Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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State of the Art on Graphene Lightweighting Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications

Elmarakbi¹,

Azoti²

2018

Experimental Characterization, Predictive Mechanical and Thermal Modeling of Nanostructures and Their Polymer Composites

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“…The third approach is the combination of different materials [26]. Here, the materials are used in a way in which their specific advantages can be exploited and their specific disadvantages concealed.…”

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“…First, multi-material systems describe the combination of different materials at component level [27]. Examples of these include the so-called "Erlanger beam" (in this structure a thin-walled aluminium structure is reinforced with a FRP component) and circular CFRP rib construction [26]. Second, hybrid structures are created through the permanent connection of at least two different materials, such as sheet metal and CFRP, thereby achieving a transition between different classes of material.…”

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Hybrid Structures Consisting of Sheet Metal and Fibre Reinforced Plastics for Structural Automotive Applications

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Reuter

2013

Advanced Composite Materials for Automotive Applications

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“…With the current pressure growing on automotive manufactures to have strong decarbonisation targets and to reduce annual CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption by developing environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient and safe vehicles (EESV), they are studying better alternatives to current design trends and ACM. Therefore, the design of the new generation of vehicles (namely EESV) should be developed aiming for individual mobility whilst also retaining safety, environmental friendliness and affordability [2]. However, the use of advanced composites in structural vehicle body applications has been far less extensive [3].…”

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Mechanical Prediction of Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy-Efficient and Safe Vehicles

Elmarakbi¹,

Azoti²

2018

Experimental Characterization, Predictive Mechanical and Thermal Modeling of Nanostructures and Their Polymer Composites

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Elmarakbi, Ahmed and Azoti, Wiyao (2018) Mechanical prediction of graphene based polymer nanocomposites for energyefficient and safe vehicles. In: Experimental characterization, predictive mechanical and thermal modeling of nanostructures and their polymer composites. Micro and Nano Technologies . Elsevier, pp. 159177. ISBN 9780323480611 Downloaded from: AbstractThis work investigates efficient ways of lightweighting vehicles structures based on Graphene Related materials (GRMs). An integration of Graphene as polymer reinforcements within composite materials for energy-efficient and safe vehicles (EESVs) is addressed with respect to some technological challenges for instance the lack of constitutive material models for high performance structural applications. Therefore, accurate material models need to be developed to support simulation of structural design for these vehicles. A multi-scale modelling of Graphene reinforced polymer composite is elaborated and using the Mori-Tanaka micro-mechanics scheme, the effective non-linear behaviour is predicted for various micro-parameters such as the aspect ratio and volume fractions. The results show an enhancement of the equivalent macro stress-strain response when the aspect ratio is low corresponding to platelets-like inclusions. Also, the volume fraction is seen to have a good improvement on the composite response. The results highlight the effect of Graphene platelets versus Carbon and Glass fibres in the design of lightweight structures with enhanced mechanical responses and by consequence a CO 2 emissions reduction.

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New Lightweight Structures for Advanced Automotive Vehicles–Safe and Modular

Cited by 26 publications

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State of the Art on Graphene Lightweighting Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications

State of the Art on Graphene Lightweighting Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications

Hybrid Structures Consisting of Sheet Metal and Fibre Reinforced Plastics for Structural Automotive Applications

Mechanical Prediction of Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy-Efficient and Safe Vehicles

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