Mass decompounding and vehicle lightweighting

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 618 619, Issue , 2009, Pages 411-418

  Verbrugge, Mark ^a   Lee, Theresa ^a   Krajewski, Paul ^a   Sachdev, Anil ^a   Bjelkengren, Catarina ^b   Roth, Richard ^b   Kirchain, Randy ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive; Light weight product solutions; Manufacturing

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LIGHT METALS; MANUFACTURE;

ADDITIONAL COSTS; AUTOMOTIVE; LIGHT-WEIGHT PRODUCTS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MASS REDUCTION; RESEARCH EFFORTS; VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; VEHICLE LIGHTWEIGHTING;

VEHICLES;

EID: 70349522257     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.618-619.411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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