Lightweight Automotive Fibre-Steered Structures (LeAFS)

轻质汽车纤维导向结构 (LeAFS)

• 批准号: 10004512
• 金额: $ 246.75万
• 依托单位: ICOMAT
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004512
• 关键词: Lightweight; Automotive; Fibre; Steered; Structures

LeAFS focuses on the development and commercialisation of an automated manufacturing process, aiming at introducing the light-weighting benefits of composites in the automotive sector, in a cost-efficient way.During LeAFS, iCOMAT will use its novel manufacturing technology known as Rapid Tow Shearing, to enable the manufacture of composite structures that require fibre steering. These are often highly curved and will be manufactured by pressing a hybrid preform of 2D fibre-steered tapes and random-fibre sheet-moulding-compound (SMC).Phase\_2 will deliver a pilot production line (raw material to final part), focusing on R&D to solve existing challenges and develop process elements enabling even greater quality/cost improvements.LeAFS can deliver the new state-of-the-art in automated manufacturing capability for lightweight vehicles and green mobility. LeAFS creates an immediate business opportunity, exploitable at the end of the project, which extends to the UK and European markets.

LeAFS专注于自动化制造工艺的开发和商业化，旨在以具有成本效益的方式将复合材料的轻量化优势引入汽车行业。在LeAFS期间，iCOMAT将使用其称为快速丝束剪切的新型制造技术，以实现需要纤维转向的复合材料结构的制造。这些通常是高度弯曲的，将通过压制2D纤维转向带和随机纤维片材模塑化合物（SMC）的混合预制件来制造。第2阶段将提供一条试验生产线（原材料至最终部件），专注于研发，以解决现有的挑战和开发过程元素，从而实现更大的质量/成本改进。LeAFS可以提供新的状态-在自动化制造能力的轻型车辆和绿色流动性的艺术。LeAFS创造了一个直接的商业机会，在项目结束时可以利用，并扩展到英国和欧洲市场。