OEMs are seeking to develop vehicle light weighting strategies that will allow them to meet
weight and fuel economy targets hence increasingly shifting their focus towards …

To make the next generation of lightweighting come through, engineers undertake
increasingly deep simulation of composite performances during the part design phase. After …

Abstract Fibre-Reinforced Plastics (FRPs) have been used in civil aerospace vehicles for
decades. The current state-of-the-art in airframe design and manufacture results in …

Our society depends on functional road communication, and Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs)
offer convenient and limitless possibilities of transport and services. However, HDVs account …

A bottom-up multi-scale modeling approach is used to develop an Integrated Computational
Materials Engineering (ICME) framework for carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) …

Most of the carmakers show a clear interest in the replacement of metal by continuous
carbon fiber composites to reach their targets in terms of lightweighting while keeping or …

The driving force to get new lightweight composite materials into the air comes from the
increasing cost of fuel worldwide. An airline industry's response to higher fuel charges is to …

Glass Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (GFRPs) are made by combining polymer with
reinforcement glass fiber yarns to produce new materials that offer lightweight yet strong …

Composite materials, valued for their adaptability, face challenges associated with
degradation over time. Characterising their durability through traditional experimental …

The bottleneck for inserting new and improved polymer matrix composites (PMC) is the
overwhelming amount of testing required to incorporate new material into the Design …