Studies of ultra-lightweight microlattice materials have shown that by independently changing these different architectural parameters, conventionally linked properties such as density, stiffness, ... Methods such as additive manufacturing and three-dimensional (3D) offer the opportunity to tailor properties to location …
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It is generally compatible with existing manufacturing and materials currently used in vehicles. Pros: High strength, stiffness, formability, and corrosion performance, as well as low cost. Cons: High …
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Herein, a systematic review of available lightweight materials to produce next-generation automobiles is provided, including light alloys, high-strength steels, …
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Perhaps most important, the DOE mandated a maximum allowable cost per pound of saved weight (over the baseline door) of $5. This meant that for a typical Acura MDX door weighing 31.8 kg, a 42.5% …
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This chapter describes all the types of latest ultralight materials having a density of <10 mg/cm³. Aerogel, aerographite, aerographene, 3D graphene, carbyne, microlattice, and come under ...
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2.1.2. Density Classification . Polymer s are classified into three categories based on density. If the density of a polymer is less than 0.1 g/m 3, the polymer is considered high-ing, with examples such as high-ing polyethylene (PE) and PP s [37,38,39].If the density of a polymer is 0.1–0.4 g/m 3, the …
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Using less sand can make the product lighter, but it can also make the concrete weaker structurally. A simple recipe for basic lightweight concrete is to combine 8 parts sand, 8 parts cement and 8 parts perlite …
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Classification of Lightweight Concrete. It is convenient to classify the various types of lightweight concrete by their method of production. These are: By using porous lightweight aggregate of low apparent specific gravity, i.e. lower than 2.6. This type of concrete is known as lightweight aggregate concrete.
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An increasing demand for lightweight materials led to an expansion of research towards novel solutions with strategies for achieving lightweighting goals …
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• Optimized use of advanced ultra. deplo-lightweight materials (but not materials development). • Validated modeling, analysis, and simulation techniques. • High-fidelity, functioning laboratory models and test methods. Phase I, prove the feasibility of proposed innovations using suitable analyses and tests. Regardless of the configuration,
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Light-weighting involves the use of advanced materials and engineering methods to enable structural elements to deliver the same, or enhanced, technical performance while using less material. The ...
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The wide range of the specific gravity of lightweight aggregate values can be explained by the influence factors, including type of material used, type of method used, and type of binder used during the manufacturing process. The specific gravity of lightweight aggregate is often increased by adding additives.
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the durability of professional prosthetics. The manufacturing process is completed using 3D printed molds in a multi -stage molding system, which creates a custom finger or palm with a lightweight epoxy core, a durable composite outer shell, and soft urethane gripping surfaces. The composite material
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Pultrusion. Pultrusion word is consists of pull and extrusion. As seen in figure 6, composite is fabricated by pulling continuous fibers material across a die that consists of a resin bath (impregnating of fiber) [ 50 – 52 ]. It is a continuous manufacturing method for a composite product [ 53, 54 ].
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Introduction. Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, such as fused filament fabrication (FFF), selective laser sintering (SLS), and continuous liquid interface production (CLIP), are enabling technologies in the field of advanced lightweight structures due to their ability to selectively deposit material where it is needed, e.g. to support specific load …
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Overview of Lightweight Materials. — Many plastic materials offer engineers and designers an opportunity to reduce weight, and therefore improve efficiency of their products. Lighter materials require less energy to transport the finished product. To learn more, review the products below, or contact Professional Plastics.
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Flexible Glass Substrates. Flexible surface lighting is the key differential advantage of OLED lighting technology. Table 1 shows the substrate material attributes for possible flexible substrate options that enable this and how flexible glass compares against the alternatives. In this case Corning® Willow® Glass, 2 is used as the example. Flexible …
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Powerful computational tools to optimize structures for mechanical efficiency ( 7) allow the most structurally efficient and lightweight architecture for a complex part …
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However, as may be guessed, most validation methods used to date are based on test data based on ferrous materials—with the majority of mass market vehicles built with low carbon steels for a ...
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Lightweighting is a hot topic in manufacturing these days. Lightweighting is the process of designing products that reduce the …
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Modern manufacturing methods and extremely lightweight materials for lenses and frames have made it possible to produce glasses that offer outstanding quality at an exceptionally low weight. BETTER VISION investigates five tips for creating ultra-thin, exceptionally lightweight eyeglass lenses and frames – and discovers why losing a bit of ...
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Ultralight materials: High strength through hierarchy. ScienceDaily . Retrieved August 21, 2023 from / releases / 2021 / 03 / 210304145402.htm
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Metallic microlattice. Metallic microlattice is the world's lightest metal and one of the lightest structural materials. This synthetic porous material made from nickel phosphorous tubes has a ...
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This article reports on a nature-inspired, ultra-lightweight structure designed to optimize rigidity and density under bending loads. The structure's main features were conceived by observing the scales of the butterflies' wings. They are made of a triply periodic minimal surface geometry called gyroid and further reinforced on their outer …
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A typical approach to achieve lightweight design for aerospace components is to apply advanced lightweight materials on numerically optimized structures, which can be fabricated with appropriate manufacturing methods. As such, the application of lightweight materials can effectively achieve both weight reduction and performance …
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The use of lightweight materials will significantly grow across industries – while the lightweight share is currently highest in aviation with almost 80 percent, automotive is massively increasing the lightweight share from 30 to 70 percent by 2030 (high-strength steel considered lightweight material).
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Three-dimensional carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) cores are high performance ultra-lightweight materials that can reduce the structural mass of vehicles used in the transportation and aerospace industry, increasing capabilities and performance, and reducing fuel consumption. In this work, three different carbon fiber cores are …
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Three-dimensional lattice sandwich material has the dual role of function and structure, is considered to be light, one of the most promising ultra tough versatility of structural materials, especially metal additive manufacturing (3D ) technology has the shape complexity, hierarchy complexity, material complexity and functional …
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The International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture is an open access journal that provides a high-quality platform for academic researchers and industrial engineers working with lightweight materials and manufacturing technologies to publish full-length research papers on original and rigorous work. Each paper is subjected to a …
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In the last few decades, lightweight materials have been developed with a wide diversity and applied to various fields. Many optimized structures in nature provide the inspirations of novel design in lightweight structure, such as woods [], human bone [2, 3], and fruit peels [4, 5].Moreover, among artificial materials, aerogel is regarded as a …
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The aim of lightweight design is to build structures with a minimal use of materials and an optimized utilization of the material strength, with numerical methods being developed to model the complex geometries of lightweight structures, e.g., in a parametric isogeometric environment . The material selection has many aspects and …
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2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Materials Porous carbon materials were produced by carbonization of porous phenolic resin at 950ºC under Ar atmosphere. As shown in Fig.3, the porous carbon materials have uniform micro structures and nominal average pore diameters are 5, 10, and 25μm. The properties of the porous carbon were shown in Table 1.
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Figure 11.20-1 illustrates the lightweight aggregate manufacturing process. Although the majority (approximately 90 percent) of plants use rotary kilns, traveling grates are also used to heat the raw material. In addition, a few plants process naturally occurring lightweight aggregate such as pumice. 11.20.2 Emissions And Controls1 Emissions ...
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A research team has now developed a new materials' design approach for future ultralight materials: Nanometer-sized metal struts that form nested networks on separate hierarchical levels provide ...
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Ashby (2005) has established a material selection system that focuses on data modeling aspects of the problem, where data is presented in charts. Materials and process selection charts that were founded by Ashby are tested and tried. Ashby's material selection charts are valuable for preliminary screening of materials.
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The two main trends for producing lightweight automotive parts are the application of high strength steels or lightweight materials—especially various high strength ... To meet all these requirements is impossible with conventional materials and conventional manufacturing methods. This is one of the main reasons that the …
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