The Steel Market Development Institute, a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute, has recognised Sweden-based Volvo Car Corporation's
body structure team with its Automotive Excellence Award at the 16th annual Great Designs in Steel seminar in Livonia, Michigan.
Sixty-four percent of the CT6
body structure is aluminum, including all exterior body panels, and the mixed material approach saved 198 lbs.
The simplified experimental techniques used in this paper are applied to experimental, modified vehicles, therefore the results achieved during the experiment may be used for analysis only as providing a potential behavior of the
body structure of a modified car in certain situations that might arise during the operation.
What's interesting is their revolutionary CFRP, or Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic
body structures.
The front axle sub-frame system is designed to decouple from the
body structure in the event of a frontal impact.
It aims to show within five years it will be feasible to produce a lightweight car based on a
body structure built using sustainable aluminium sheet derived in part from low cost energy efficient recycled, post consumer scrap.
To reduce weight, the Concept-RA features a new
body structure using an aluminium space frame with the outer panels and bumpers made from high impactresistant and easily-recyclable plastic resin.
To utilize this technology, says Stefan Schmidgall, HBPO's R & D director, OEMs must utilize an "open"
body structure (i.
The car also uses Honda's Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE)
body structure, which is designed to minimise the effects of a frontal crash by dispersing energy through the structure.
Bruce is having a lot of success with his weight and
body structure, and I figure I'm not too far from him,'' Anyanwu said.
Sporns uses robots to study how
body structure influences the data that a machine or organism gathers about its environment.
But if I am to understand the
body structure and behavior of an ancient mollusk, I have to look at modern forms--including the giant squid.
Among the topics are a neuro-physiological understanding of the Freudian unconscious, implicit body representations in action,
body structure in psychotic and autistic children, a functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own body, different metaphysical backgrounds on body image and body schema, and the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence.
Buyers can expect further improvements in the Focus's ride, handling and refinement thanks to changes under the skin which include a new front subframe, tuned and refined suspension systems and a 10% stiffer
body structure.
The
body structure builds on the automaker's 'G-Control' (G-CON) collision safety technology by utilizing the engine compartment to absorb and disperse collision energy over a larger area.
