Reduced cost materials and process for lightweight automotive structures

降低轻量化汽车结构的材料和工艺成本

• 批准号: 133272
• 金额: $ 31.14万
• 依托单位: NEDRA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133272
• 关键词: Reduced; cost; materials; process; lightweight

"This project aims to prove both the concept of a new material combination, flax based sandwich construction, and a new manufacturing process developed under a previous Innovate project, to produce strong, lightweight and low cost automotive body structures and exterior panels.Through the unique production method the project will investigate the limitations of the production process and the consequent impact on the design of structural components. At the same time the process will be tested to see how it can deliver acceptable A class surfaces that do not require further finishing processes. The process delivers low-capital investment production tooling and supports the production of low cost vehicles as well as any product using single side moulded panels.Once the process has been tuned, the project will look at flax reinforced resins in a sandwich construction with carbon fibre skins to provide resilience and impact resistance and also to encapsulate the flax to protect it from moisture. This will focus on achieving suitable strengths to carry loads, resilience to withstand repeated road load inputs and resistance to impacts.Following the experimentation, the project will create and automotive body structure to test the results as a complete assembly.This will lead to a new business with new business opportunities -- initially with Nedra on it's ultra-low weight electric vehicle family and subsequently in many automotive applications that seek reductions in cost and weight."

“该项目旨在证明新材料组合、基于亚麻的夹层结构的概念，以及在之前的创新项目下开发的新制造工艺，以生产坚固、轻质和低成本的汽车车身结构和外饰板。通过独特的生产方法，该项目将研究生产工艺的局限性以及对结构部件设计的影响。同时，该工艺将进行测试，看看它如何能够提供可接受的 A 级质量。 不需要进一步精加工的表面。该工艺提供低资本投资的生产工具，并支持低成本车辆以及任何使用单面模制面板的产品的生产。工艺调整后，该项目将研究夹层结构中的亚麻增强树脂和碳纤维表层，以提供弹性和抗冲击性，并封装亚麻以防止其受潮。这将侧重于获得适当的优势 承载负载、承受重复道路负载输入的弹性和抗冲击性。实验结束后，该项目将创建汽车车身结构，以作为完整的装配体测试结果。这将带来新的业务和新的商机——首先是与 Nedra 合作开发其超轻电动汽车系列，随后在许多寻求降低成本和重量的汽车应用中合作。”