Abstract:Lightweighting materials are critical to reducing emissions and the United States' reliance on foreign oil. Understanding how lightweighting materials utilized in vehicles perform in crash scenarios is paramount as well, for passenger safety as well as energy efficiency are primary design challenges facing today's automotive industry. The Southern Regional Center for Lightweight Innovative Design (SRCLID) plans to develop an experimentally validated cradle-to-grave modeling and simulation effort to optimize au… Show more
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