Lightweight Materials in Tomorrow's Automotive Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Hubert Jäger ◽  
Maik Gude
2011 ◽  
Vol 341-342 ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Rong Chun Guo ◽  
Na Wu ◽  
Gui Rong Zhang

The main developing trend of automobile industry is promoting performance, lowering fuel consumption, reducing hazard gas emission and promising safety of driving. The automobile lightweight technology has attracted more and more attention recently. Furthermore, auto-body lightweight is very important to automobile lightweight, and new material has become an important technical support for auto-body lightweight. In this paper, the currently used materials in automotive industry were reviewed, and the focus has been put on the application of new lightweight materials in auto-body and the trend of development.


2022 ◽  
pp. 121-152
Author(s):  
Aytekin Ulutaş

In order to take more stringent measures in fuel economy and achieve the determined performance targets, the automotive industry needs to reduce the weight of the vehicles it produces. For this reason, all automobile manufacturers have determined their own strategies. Some manufacturers use lighter aluminum, magnesium, and composite components in their cars. In this study, the joining techniques of lightweight materials such as welding and the processes of their industrial use have been examined. There is currently no single technology that can combine all metallic panels in a car body structure. However, it is known that various joining technologies are used together. With the potential to combine certain combinations of steel and aluminum, manufacturers and scientists continue to work to identify technologies with the highest potential for lightweight joining and put them into use in high-volume automobile production. Therefore, it is important to examine the weldability of light materials such as magnesium, titanium, and aluminum.


2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 2244-2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Ping Du ◽  
Dao Fen Xu

Reducing the weight of a vehicle, which helps to reduce fuel consumption and emissions by a large extent, has become a research focus in the automotive industry. Application of magnesium alloy lightweight materials is one of the most lightweight methods. This paper introduces the characteristics of magnesium alloys and reviews the application of magnesium alloys in automotive industry at present.


Author(s):  
Xiaolan Han ◽  
Shengdun Zhao

Lightweight materials, manufacturing technology and the car body structure optimization are the three main approaches to achieve the lightweight constructions. The lightweight materials, such as aluminum or magnesium alloys, are widely utilized in the automotive industry for the weight reduction. Mechanical clinching is used to connect the lightweight materials. In this study, the sheets were joined by the extensible die clinching and flat-clinching. The tensile strength and shear strength of the aluminum alloy 5052 were investigated by the two different tools. Compared with the extensible die clinching, both the tensile strength and shear strength of the clinched joint produced with flat-clinching is higher. And the tensile strength of the clinched joint is up to 54% higher than that of the extensible die clinching.


Author(s):  
W. T. Donlon ◽  
J. E. Allison ◽  
S. Shinozaki

Light weight materials which possess high strength and durability are being utilized by the automotive industry to increase fuel economy. Rapidly solidified (RS) Al alloys are currently being extensively studied for this purpose. In this investigation the microstructure of an extruded Al-8Fe-2Mo alloy, produced by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Goverment Products Div. was examined in a JE0L 2000FX AEM. Both electropolished thin sections, and extraction replicas were examined to characterize this material. The consolidation procedure for producing this material included a 9:1 extrusion at 340°C followed by a 16:1 extrusion at 400°C, utilizing RS powders which have also been characterized utilizing electron microscopy.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bustillos Enrique de la Vega ◽  
Karla Lucero Duarte ◽  
Octavio Lopez Millan
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