ObjectivesThe overall objective of the SuperLIGHT-CAR project
is the realization of advanced multi-material lightweight vehicle
structures achieving:
- 30% weight reduced vehicle structure (Body-In-White)
- Reduction of manufacturing costs and cycle times
- Technologies suitable for large series production (approx. 1000 cars/day)
- Equivalent performance (C-class segment): e.g. crash, fatigue, etc.
- Reduced raw material consumption
Other objectives are:
- Creation of a library of multi-material architectures & concepts for light weight development of mass-produced vehicles
- Analysis of technologies’ application in two additional scenarios of lower volumes.
- Development of forming technologies for aluminium, steel, magnesium and reinforced plastics.
- Development of joining technologies such as welding, brazing, adhesive bonding, mechanical joining and others.
- Development
of multi attribute optimisation simulation tools considering cost,
static, crash, fatigue and life cycle analysis.
- Production and validation of a front-end structure demonstrator
Scope To accomplish these challenges, knowledge and technological capabilities have to be developed in four main areas:
- Concepts and design
- Manufacturing technologies (forming and joining, including surface quality);
- Tools and enabling technologies (design tools, simulation tools, evaluation tools, multi-parameter optimisation tools);
- Physical and virtual prototyping for performance assessment and validation
Each of these four areas forms a subproject (SP) in SLC and is visualized in the figure below:
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