State of the Art on Automotive Lightweight Body-in-White Design

Continuously increasing concerns about depleting non-renewable energy resources and high pressure for reducing the vehicle emissions in the form of greenhouse gases, have driven the application of renewable energy resources in the automotive field. For the same reasons, improving the fuel efficiency...

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Published in:Materials today : proceedings 2018, Vol.5 (10), p.20966-20971
Main Authors: Kumar Dama, Kiran, Suresh Babu, V, Rao, R.N.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Automotive Lightweight BIW Design
Automotive Lightweight Design
State of the art on Automotive BIW Design
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Summary:Continuously increasing concerns about depleting non-renewable energy resources and high pressure for reducing the vehicle emissions in the form of greenhouse gases, have driven the application of renewable energy resources in the automotive field. For the same reasons, improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles, is also given high importance. Development and application of efficient drive train concepts and reducing the driving resistance are, therefore, highly emphasised issues in the present-day automotive industry. One of the main factors affecting these issue is the weight of the vehicles. This paper presents an overview of automotive lightweight Body-in-White design. This includes a brief importance of lightweight design and lightweight design methods. The main limitations of lightweight design, are also presented.
ISSN:2214-7853
2214-7853
DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2018.06.486