The need for fuel efficiency and increased performance in transportation systems continually places new demands on the materials used. The design criteria which automobile and aerospace industries are primarily concerned with are density, strength, stiffness, and corrosion resistance. Low-density materials may reduce fuel costs, increase range, and allow larger payloads. High strength and stiff...

Present time the main issue of automobile industry are weight reduction. The automobile industry has looking for any implementation or modification to reduce the weight of the vehicle. The suspension leaf spring is one of the potential items for weight reduction in automobile as it accounts for 10% to 20% of the unsprung weight. The introduction of composite leaf spring made of glass fiber rein...

The issue of automobile recyclability is a problem with complex ramifications for car makers world-wide. Confronted with increasingly stringent fuel economy, emissions, and safety standards, recyclability is an attribute which can limit the ability of the automaker to meet these other goals economically. Nevertheless, social and political pressures upon the industry require that it responds to ...

Bellcore's Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) system and HNC's MatchPlus system represent two attempts to model and exploit the inter-relationships among terms to improve information retrieval. Most information retrieval methods depend on exact matches between words in users' queries and words in documents. Typically, documents containing one or more query words are returned to the user. Such metho...

In the current work, the evolutions of grain and dislocation microstructures are investigated on the basis of plane strain tension and simple shear tests for an interstitial free steel (DC06) and a 6000 series aluminum alloy (AA6016-T4). Both materials are commonly-used materials in the automobile industry. The focus of this contribution is on the characterization and comparison of the microstr...

Thermoelectric materials are solid-state energy converters whose combination of thermal, electrical, and semiconducting properties allows them to be used to convert waste heat into electricity or electrical power directly into cooling and heating. These materials can be competitive with fluid-based systems, such as two-phase air-conditioning compressors or heat pumps, or used in smaller-scale a...