Objective
The aim of this programme is to take advantage of this material development and establish manufacturing process and equipment suitable to produce automotive parts in high speed process.
The general statement about the project is positive. All main tasks were worked off and the planned components of the lab-production equipments and tools were realized.
Some assumptions at the project start were rather optimistic and caused a project delay. The project was started on the premises that the AC-raw material was developed by different suppliers and to be available. For this reason no material supplier became partner of the project, because different materials were planned to be used. But during the project, a lot of developments had to be done to modify the ACT-raw-material according the required quality.
The finally chosen supplier was not able to deliver sufficient material to produce the demanded quantity of parts.
A comparison between the objectives at the starting point of the project and the results at the project end leads to following results:
- All components for a lab-production line for high speed manufacturing of Advanced Composite parts were realized.
- The reutilisation of scrap material was proved under laboratory scale. The use of regrinded material for the overinjection of the Ac-part (ACC-process) was not possible, as there was not enough material available
- The feasibility of a mass-production was proved
- The economic benefit for the user on a system level of the used AC-raw material is not proved.
A positive sign in this field are new AC-products, which came lately to the market with less expensive thermoplast matrix systems. Some partners of this project have already started on their own costs to continue the project and to investigate the new materials. It is planned to transform new AC-materials in the existing CF-equipment and tools.
Reduction of fuel consumption is one of the main challenges to the automotive industry in the next decade. One of the answers to this challenge is the reduction of the car weight by using advanced composites for automotive structures. However, this weight saving potential cannot be used by the automotive industry today, since there are no suitable materials or high speed manufacturing processes available that will produce hundreds of parts a day. New semifinished products comprising fibres imbedded in a ermoplastic matrix with a fibre volume content higher than 50% (so called organic sheet) have been developed.
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Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering automotive engineering
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
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