Lightweight in Automotive Components by Forming Technology

Lightweight Contracts for Safety-Critical Automotive Systems

Complex automotive systems are composed of subsystems and components in a deep hierarchy, often designed by different development partners or reused from preexisting projects. It is therefore a challenging task to break down requirements into sub-requirements fitting the scope of the subsystems and to simultaneously demonstrate that the integrated system fulfills both functional and safety requ...

6th EUROSPF Conference APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY OF ALUMINUM BLOW FORMING FOR AUTOMOTIVE CLOSURE PANEL

Replacement by aluminum for the closure panels is one of the common methods for lightening car body. However the application used to be limited into shallow drawing parts like hood because of its low stamping formability. As a solution to cover the low stamping formability of aluminum, Blow forming technology of aluminum which is one of the superplastic forming technologies has been researched ...

The Future of Glass Forming Technology for the Manufacture of Lightweight Containers

Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development

Pre-development in the automotive sector is informally organized to support the engineers trying out new ideas and generally being creative. If feasibility studies reveal system’s uncertainties or bad market opportunities and the development has to be discarded, all documentation attached is obsolete. As a result it is neither possible nor desirable to establish a document centric process in au...

Lightweight and Generative Components I: Sour e-Level Components