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Conference Proceedings

Production Scale-Up of New Thermoplastic Composite Resin Formulations: Demonstrating that the Calculated Savings Are Real

Rena Pomaville, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Good-Bye Machining: Reconfigurable Pin Tooling

Ben Halford, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Better Quality Thermoplastic Foams with Nanoclay

Amit Kumar Chaudhary, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Aqueous Nanocomposite Barrier Coatings

Harris Goldberg, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Mechanical & Thermal Investigation of Polyurethane Nanocomposites

Amit Kaushik, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Toughening Mechanisms in Epoxy Matrix Hybrid Composites / Nanocomposites

Ray Pearson, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Basalt Fibers for High-Performance Composites

Alan Murray, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Opportunities for Plastics Materials / Processes for Under-the-Hood Applications

Suresh Shah, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Revolutionary Polymer for Metal Replacement in Automotive Applications

Mike Zimmerman, Charles Buehler, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Advances in High Fiber Composites

Fred Deans, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Low-Gloss Weatherable Molded-In-Color PC/PBT Composite for Vehicle Interiors

Edward Kung, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Thermoplastic Composite Hybrids for Horizontal Automotive Panels

Mike Birrell, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Linear Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) for Thermoplastic Composites

Harsh Bhagat, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Long Glass Fiber-Polypropylene Light Weight Instrument Panel Retainers & Door Modules

Matthew Marks, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

GMT Bumper Beam

John Shin, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Composite Liftgate Ductility Performance

Peter Foss, September 2008

The FMVSS 301R Fuel System Integrity Test requirements on closures as well as field experience have increased demand on the liftgate performance. The energy imparted to the liftgate structure in this test configuration is difficult to absorb with inherently brittle composite materials. This report documents the load-displacement response of several reinforced composite liftgates. The liftgates were evaluated with a static test designed to simulate the deformations experienced in a rear 70% offset deformable barrier crash test.

Fatigue Life Prediction of Short Fiber Reinforced Plastic Components

Robert Wahlmueller, September 2008

In automotive engineering the development of light weighted structures is very important to save fuel and so to reduce the pollution. Therefore the usage of new materials like fiber reinforced plastics is very attractive even for dynamically loaded parts. Nevertheless there is still little knowledge about the fatigue behavior of fiber reinforced plastics. So it is difficult to make an optimum design according to the divergent requirements on weight and strength. Some research works have been already done by BMW [1 2] and others [3-5].

DIGIMAT Multi-Scale Modeling: The Technology & Software Tools for a Predictive Development of Reinforced Plastic Parts

Roger Assaker, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Constitutive Modeling of Polymer Composites made from LBL Manufacturing Technique

Harish Iyer, September 2008

PowerPoint Presentation at ACCE 2008.

Hybrid Laser Welding of Polymers

Chris Korson, September 2008

Hybrid laser plastic welding is a process to enhance the limitations of conventional laser plastic welding in order to provide a joining technology for large three dimensional parts. Because of existing tolerances of injecting moulded parts it is necessary to provide a maximum gap-binding capability of the welding process. The poor capability of bridging gaps between the joining partners at contour laser welding and long cycle times are still limiting the range of applications. At hybrid welding the energy that is being deposited into the material is provided by a semiconductor laser and a secondary source of radiation e.g. a halogen lamp at the same time. A hybrid welding head provides one focal point of the laser and a secondary radiation source. The polychromatic emission spectrum of the halogen lamp causes a volumetric absorption of the incident radiation in the upper joining partner. This leads to a more symmetric temperature distribution around the welding plane and different lateral heat fluxes compared to conventional laser welding processes. This paper will discuss the effects of the larger temperature field and will disclose the benefits compared to conventional laser welding. Experimental results are showing that a larger process window and faster feed rates are possible. Compared to conventional laser welding the seam strength is in spite of a faster feed rate conspicuously improved. The gap-binding ability is rising with a hybrid welding system threefold. In consequence of the secondary radiation and the modified temperature distribution there are less residual stresses because the ability of the material to creep is stopped. The hybrid welding process is comparable to a laser welding process and a tempering of the material at the same time.