Design of lightweight multi-material automotive bodies using new material performance indices of thin-walled beams for the material selection with crashworthiness consideration

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 815-821

  Cui, Xintao ^a   Zhang, Hongwei ^b   Wang, Shuxin ^b   Zhang, Lianhong ^b   Ko, Jeonghan ^c  

^a Tianjin Faw Xiali Automobile Co Ltd   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Multi materials; H. Performance indices; H. Value analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE BODY; H. PERFORMANCE INDICES; LOWER COST; MATERIAL SELECTION; MULTI MATERIALS; NEW INDICES; NEW MATERIAL; NOVEL MATERIALS; OPTIMAL MATERIALS; PERFORMANCE INDICES; PRODUCT PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; THIN-WALLED BEAM; VALUE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CRASHWORTHINESS; ENGINE MOUNTINGS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; TEXTILE MILLS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

MATERIALS;

EID: 77958479306     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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