Reducing the environmental impact of passenger vehicles by the design of lightweight alloy components

通过轻质合金部件的设计减少乘用车对环境的影响

• 批准号: LP140101030
• 负责人: Prof Michael Ferry
• 金额: $ 29.61万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-30 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP140101030
• 关键词: Reducing; environmental; impact; passenger; vehicles

There are approximately a billion passenger vehicles in the world and the number is growing each year. The reduction in vehicle weight is therefore critical as it is one of the major contributors to both fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. A major challenge for the automotive industry is to address this problem by replacing high density materials with lighter weight materials with comparable properties. The aim is to design new lightweight aluminium alloys with the desired properties to replace existing high density steel fasteners in vehicles. It is expected that the new components aim to reduce the total weight of a standard car by at least 20kg; this would be a significant achievement in the eyes of automotive manufacturers.

全球约有10亿辆乘用车，而且数量每年都在增长。因此，减少车辆重量至关重要，因为它是燃料消耗和二氧化碳排放的主要贡献者之一。汽车工业面临的一个主要挑战是通过用具有类似性能的轻质材料取代高密度材料来解决这个问题。其目的是设计具有所需性能的新型轻质铝合金，以取代车辆中现有的高密度钢紧固件。预计新组件的目标是将标准汽车的总重量减少至少20公斤;这在汽车制造商眼中将是一项重大成就。