Vehicle Weight Reduction Obtained with Lightweight Materials

Lightweight Materials Obtained by Utilization of Agricultural Waste

Lightweight ceramic materials in the form of bricks and blocks are widely used in modern construction. They may be obtained by adding of rice husk, rye straw, etc, as porous forming materials. Rice husk is a major by-product of the rice milling industry. Its utilization as a valuable product has always been a problem. Various technologies for utilization of rice husk through biological and ther...

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Sustainable temporary shelter design via lightweight and recyclable materials

Background & Objects: Many goals can be imagined for this project, but achieving all these goals is a long and time-consuming task, and it is not possible to achieve all of them in one project, but in general, the main goal of the project is to find a plan that is suitable for temporary housing. can have the most efficiency for the accident victims while causing the least damage to the environm...

Alternative lightweight materials and component manufacturing technologies for vehicle frontal bumper beam

One of the vehicle subsystem where large advantage is expected in lightweight design is the bumper subsystems. Bumper subsystems are designed to prevent or reduce physical damage to the front or rear ends of passenger motor vehicles during collusion. In this paper, detail design aspects and method of analysis with particular reference to the application of composite materials to automotive fron...

Vibro-acoustic analysis of lightweight composite panels with damping materials

In this paper a numerical model to study the vibro-acoustic behavior of a laminated plate backed by a poroelastic foam layer is developed. Such approach consists on a coupled mitigation strategy aiming either mechanical vibration suppression or acoustic attenuation as well. The laminated plate model consists of fiber laminae with interleaved viscoelastic layers in standard constrained or integr...