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

汽车安全性是汽车发展中最关键的因素之一，未来的汽车需要在整个生命周期中更安全和可持续的新型轻质结构。因此，SALIENT的长期目标是使我们的道路更安全，减少严重伤亡。为了实现这一目标，SALIENT将展示更安全、更轻、更圆、更智能的新型结构和车辆概念，这些概念可以适应不同的碰撞场景。SALIENT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，考虑生态设计和循环经济原则，以提高车辆安全性。SALIENT将采用先进的轻质材料、改进的制造和连接技术、创新的圆形设计以及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，并适应未来的混合交通场景，以满足或超过未来车辆在安全性、结构完整性、耐撞性和兼容性方面的需求。SALIENT将为新积累的战略知识建立一条影响欧盟工业和社会的途径。其目标是产生全球影响，并在支持欧盟战略需求以及经济和社会挑战方面发挥关键作用。该联盟由来自7个国家的12个合作伙伴组成，代表了整个汽车价值链，欧洲领先的汽车制造商与世界一流的研究和教育机构以及创新型中小企业合作。该项目旨在确保对汽车行业乃至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.