UltraLight Steel Auto Body-Advanced Vehicle Concept. Materials and Processing.

Centre for Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing

Ultralight-hybrid Vehicle Design: Overcoming the Barriers to Using Advanced Composites in the Automotive Industry

Many diverse and important barriers, both real and perceived, inhibit automakers’ adoption of advanced composite materials. A strategy to produce an all-advanced-composite body-in-white (BIW) commercially could be the best method to overcome these barriers. This paper summarizes the ultralight, hybrid-electric “hypercar” concept, emphasizing why massoptimization is crucial to its design; summar...

Advanced Analysis of Steel Frames Using Parallel Processing and Vectorization

Advanced methods of analysis have shown promise in providing economical building structures through accurate evaluation of inelastic structural response. One method of advanced analysis is the plastic zone (distributed plasticity) method. Plastic zone analysis often has been deemed impractical due to computational expense. The purpose of this article is to illustrate applications of plastic zon...

Signal Processing in Advanced Nondestructive Materials Inspection

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Over the last decades, a large number of new and improved nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques have been successfully developed. For example, NDT techniques have proven to be espe...

Dynamic tensile test and specimen design of auto-body steel sheet at the intermediate strain rate

In this paper, the tensile testing method at the intermediate strain rate is established and tensile tests of steel sheets for an auto-body have been performed to evaluate dynamic material properties. A high speed tensile testing machine has been developed for tensile tests at the intermediate strain rate. A simple jig fixture for gripping a specimen has been designed to diminish the load ringi...