Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2011

by Hung, Steve; Subic, Aleksandar; Wellnitz, Jorg

• ISBN13: 9783642190520
• ISBN10: 3642190529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-21
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

These proceedings capture papers presented at the third International Conferences on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), held at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), Greenville, South Carolina, USA, during 5-6 April 2011. ICSAT is the state-of-the-art conference in the field of new technologies for transportation. The book summarizes all important trends in sustainability of automotive development today with a special focus on materials, propulsion technologies as well as manufacturing issues. It provides a brief selection of papers and key-note speakers of the conference. Papers from the US, Australia, Europe and Asia are showing the lighthouse character of the conference, in a field which gains more and more importance as far as emissions and the lack of fossil fuels in the future are concerned. The book provides a very good overview of R&D activities at OEMs as well as in leading universities and laboratories; the special focus is on new ideas for sustainable mobility.

Table of Contents

Evaluating sustainability
A holistic approach to sustainability evaluations in the automotive industry	p. 3
Technologies for production
Flexural creeping analysis of polyurethane composites produced by an innovative pultrusion process	p. 13
Manufacturing microstructured surfaces for automotive applications	p. 19
The first water based pretreatment system for direct glazing	p. 25
Hybrid command issuing in a 2-DOF servomechanism operated under vision-based feedback control	p. 31
Alternative methods to increase the long term performance of laser-welded copper aluminum connections for electronic applications in mobile systems	p. 39
Combustion engines and fuels
Investigation and optimization of biodiesel chemistry for HCCI combustion	p. 51
New potential of old Wankel-type machines	p. 59
RPM - Rotary Piston Machines: new class of innovative machines	p. 67
Hydrogen and electric vehicle technologies
Inductive Power Transfer System Integration for Battery-Electric Vehicles	p. 75
Performance comparison of hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen internal combustion engine racing cars	p. 85
Materials and structures
Design of basic structural composite elements	p. 95
Enhancing sustainability through the targeted use of synergy effects between material configuration, process development and lightw8	p. 103
Sustainable design of a side door reinforcing assembly -exploratory optimisation	p. 111
Research and development of a new and sustainable composite: "Natural Stone Laminate"	p. 121
Vehicle systems
In-wheel coupled suspension and drive: design, development, and modeling	p. 131
Optimisation of automotive seat kinematics	p. 139
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