Materials Characterization in conjunction with light weighting through the use of surface coating, carbon fiber and hybrid Fiber

汽车制造商继续推动汽车发动机的性能，以减少导致全球变暖的温室气体排放。这是通过开发新材料来实现的，以提高燃料燃烧效率并减轻发动机部件的重量，这两个方面都可以减少燃料消耗。福特汽车加拿大公司在其位于加拿大温莎的研究实验室里有16个专门的房间来测试正在开发的新材料的发动机。通常，许多新组件在测试过程中失败，必须确定失败的原因。由于失效过程的微观性质，扫描电子显微镜是表征材料失效过程的首选工具。由于材料的性质和它们的微观结构之间有很强的联系，电子显微镜是将材料表征到纳米水平的首选工具。该项目旨在开发新技术，以表征加拿大福特汽车公司正在开发的材料的断裂表面和微观结构，并使用具有一套独特检测能力的高文研究小组的最先进的扫描电子显微镜。这将导致更好的材料开发（复合聚合物材料，金属陶瓷涂层）和更有效的发动机，将排放更少的温室气体。

Automotive manufacturers continue to push the performance of motor engines for reducing greenhouse gas emission that are responsible for global warming. This is performed through new materials development for improving fuel combustion efficiency as well as reducing the weight of the engine parts, both aspects leading to less fuel consumption. Ford Motor Canada in its research lab in Windsor, Canada, has 16 specialized rooms to test motors with new materials being developed. Often, many new components fail during the testing and the cause of failure must be determined. Because of the microscopic nature of the failure processes, the scanning electron microscope is the tool of choice to characterize failure processes of materials. Since there is a strong connection between the properties of materials and their microstructure, the electron microscope is the tool of choice to characterize materials down to the nanometer level. This project aims to develop new techniques to characterize fracture surfaces and microstructures of materials being developed by Ford Motors Canada, with the state-of-the-art scanning electron microscopes of Pr. Gauvin Research group that have a set of unique detection capabilities. This will lead to better materials development (composites polymeric materials, ceramic coatings on metals) and to more efficient engines that will emit significantly less greenhouse gas.