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提高燃料燃烧效率以及减轻发动机部件的重量来实现的，这两个方面都会导致更少的燃料消耗。福特汽车加拿大公司在其位于加拿大温莎的研究实验室有16个专门的房间，用来测试正在开发的新材料电机。通常，许多新组件在测试过程中会出现故障，必须确定故障原因。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。由于材料的性能与其微观结构之间有很强的联系，电子显微镜是表征材料的纳米级的首选工具。这个项目旨在开发新的技术来表征材料的断口表面和微观结构，该技术由加拿大福特汽车公司开发，使用最先进的Pr扫描电子显微镜。高文研究小组拥有一套独特的检测能力。这将导致更好的材料开发(复合材料、聚合物材料、金属上的陶瓷涂层)和更高效的发动机，从而显著减少温室气体排放。

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.