GOALI/IUCP: Process Modeling and Optimization for Crashworthiness of Extruded Aluminum Components

燃油经济性和汽车耐撞性是现代汽车制造业面临的两个重要问题。 目前的行业标准要求铝结构部件吸收足够的碰撞能量，同时将材料微裂纹限制为亚临界断裂。因此，一个成功的耐碰撞铝部件设计必须考虑微观结构材料性能，详细的材料失效机制以及产品和工艺参数，确定他们。 该研究项目是大学和工业合作伙伴之间的联合研究，旨在开发改进的制造工艺，用于生产具有上级性能的挤压铝部件，以实现汽车耐撞性。 该合作研究项目在理论和实验之间取得了平衡，将为汽车制造业和铝制造业提供有价值的发现。

Fuel efficiency and vehicle crashworthiness are two important issues for modern automotive manufacturing. Current industry standards require aluminum structural components to absorb sufficient crash energy while limiting material microcracking to subcritical fractures. Thus, a successful design for crash-resistant aluminum components must consider microstructural material properties, detailed material failure mechanisms as well as the product and process parameters that determine them. This research projects is a joint research effort between the University and an industrial partner to develop improved manufacturing processes for the production of extruded aluminum components with superior properties for automotive crashworthiness. This collaborative research project has a balance between theory and experiment, and will provide valuable findings for the automotive manufacturing and aluminum manufacturing industries.