Novel Concepts for Safer, Lighter, Circular and Smarter Vehicle Structure Design for Enhanced Crashworthiness and Higher Compatibility

汽车安全是汽车发展中最关键的因素之一，未来的汽车需要新颖、轻便的结构，在其整个生命周期中更加安全和可持续。因此，突出的长期目标是使我们的道路更安全，减少重伤和死亡。为了实现这一雄心壮志，卓越将提出更安全、更轻、更圆形和更智能的新颖结构和车辆概念，可以适应不同的碰撞场景。突出将专注于创新新技术，并将开发、演示和验证轻型前端结构(FES)的有效性，考虑到生态设计和循环经济原则，以提高车辆安全。卓越将采用先进的轻型材料、改进的制造和连接技术、创新的环形设计和新兴的主动安全技术，以开发具有高能量吸收能力的智能FES，并根据未来混合交通场景进行调整(之前的碰撞事件)，以满足或超过未来在安全性、结构完整性、耐撞性和兼容性方面的未来车辆需求。突出将为新积累的战略知识建立一条影响欧盟行业和社会的途径。它的雄心是创造全球影响，并发挥关键作用，支持欧盟的战略需求以及经济和社会挑战。该联盟由来自7个国家的12个合作伙伴组成，代表着整个汽车价值链，领先的欧洲汽车制造商与世界级的研究和教育机构以及创新的中小企业合作。该项目旨在确保对汽车行业和整个社会产生最大影响，为不断发展的汽车安全领域做出重大贡献。

Automotive safety is one of the most crucial factors in vehicle development and future vehicles need novel, lightweight structures that are safer and sustainable throughout their life-cycle. Hence, the long-term aim for SALIENT is to make our roads safer and reduce serious injuries and fatalities. To reach this ambition, SALIENT will present novel structural and vehicle concepts that are safer, lighter, circular, and smarter, which can be adapted to accommodate different crash scenarios. SALIENT will focus on innovating new technologies and will develop, demonstrate, and validate the effectiveness of light front-end structure (FES), considering eco-design and circular economy principles, to enhance vehicle safety. SALIENT will adapt advanced light materials, improved manufacturing and joining techniques, innovative circular design, and emerging active safety technologies to develop a smart FES with high energy absorption capability and to be adapted (prior crash events) with future mixed traffic scenarios to meet or exceed future vehicle demands in terms of safety, structural integrity, crashworthiness, and compatibility. SALIENT will build a pathway for the newly accumulated strategic knowledge to impact EU industries and society. Its ambition is to create global impacts and to play a key role to support EU strategic needs, and economic and societal challenges. The consortium consists of twelve partners from seven countries, representing the full automotive value chain, with leading European car manufacturer working alongside world-class research and education organisations, plus innovative SMEs. The project has been engineered to ensure maximum impact for the automotive industry in particular and society as a whole, significantly contributing to the evolving field of automotive safety.