Carbon/biocomposite hybrid vehicle structures for reduced weight, cost and environmental impact (CARBIO)

CARBIO项目将通过在碳纤维部件中加入新型亚麻-生物环氧复合材料，开发出重量更轻、成本更低、对环境影响更小、噪音、振动和声振粗糙度（NVH）更好的汽车结构。减轻汽车重量的需求促使人们采用碳纤维，而碳纤维价格昂贵、能源/CO2密集、难以回收，并且可能导致NVH较差。亚麻纤维具有低成本、可再生、二氧化碳中性和优异的减震性能，而生物基环氧树脂比合成环氧树脂具有更高的韧性和可持续性。该项目将开发和优化亚麻/碳混合生物复合材料，并根据汽车OEM规格对其进行测试。将设计一些案例研究部件，如车门、轮拱面板和座椅结构，并将生产和测试验证部件。

The CARBIO project will develop automotive structures with reduced weight, cost, environmental impact and improved noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) by the incorporation of novel flax-bioepoxy composites into carbon fibre components.The need to reduce vehicle weight is leading to the adoption of carbon fibre, which is expensive, energy/CO2 intensive, difficult to recycle and can lead to poor NVH. Flax fibres are low cost, renewable, CO2 neutral and have excellent vibration damping properties, whilst bio-based epoxy resins offer enhanced toughness and sustainability over synthetic epoxies.This project will develop and optimise flax/carbon hybrid biocomposite materials and test them according to automotive OEM specifications. A number of case study parts, such as a door, wheel arch panel and seat structure, will be designed and validation parts will be produced and tested.