Automotive Engineering: Lightweight, Functional, and Novel Materials

Automotive Engineering: Light-weight, Practical, and Novel Materials

Author(s) : Brian Cantor, Patrick Grant, Colin JohnsonWriter : Taylor and Francis
Revealed : 2008
Pages : 294
PDF Dimension : 8.6 Mb

E-book Description:
The present automotive business faces quite a few challenges, together with elevated international competitors, extra stringent environmental and security necessities, the necessity for greater efficiency automobiles, and decreasing prices. The supplies utilized in automotive engineering play key roles in overcoming these points. Automotive Engineering: Light-weight, Practical, and Novel Materials by Brian Cantor, Patrick Grant, Colin Johnson concentrate on each current supplies and future developments in automotive science and know-how.

Divided into 4 sections, the e book first describes the event of future automobiles, aluminum alloys for manufacturing lighter physique panels, and numerous polymer composites for stronger module carriers. It then evaluations state-of-the-art practical supplies and good applied sciences and initiatives by which utility areas they’ll most impression future automotive designs and manufacturing. The subsequent part considers the difficulties that should be overcome for mild alloys to displace ferrous-based supplies and the rising competitors from light-weight polymeric-based composites. The ultimate part explores newer processing and manufacturing applied sciences, together with welding and becoming a member of, titanium alloys, and sturdy, high-performance composites.