The back door is an important part of a car luggage compartment, steel plate is ususlly selected to be material used to make to door, the use of thermoplastic materials for the back door has been deve
Research and/or Engineering Questions/Objective These days, one of the main targets in automotive industry is to reduce the weight of vehicle as well as increase the strength. Casting is most widely u
In recent years, the importance of interior lighting in automobiles has been evolving from transportation to the space of peoples lives. In particular, the button light of a car is a key element for t
This paper presents the lightweight design of one kind of composite materials in automobile body-in-white. Front longitu- dinal beam reinforcement of a domestic senior c-classsedan is taken as the res
This paper presents an optimization method of the primary cross sections in the concept design phase of vehicle body de- velopment. Based on actual joints, a simplified model of BIW was built, and the
The performance of asphalt pavement is seriously affected by aging of asphalt binder,so indices are expected which can not only evaluate aging resistance of asphalt binder but also indicate asphalt mi