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.
Author(s): J. Weber, M. Bowler, T. Kurfess (auth.), Steve Hung, Aleksandar Subic, Jörg Wellnitz (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 144
Tags: Automotive Engineering; Industrial and Production Engineering; Structural Materials; Sustainable Development
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Holistic Approach to Sustainability Evaluations in the Automotive Industry....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Flexural Creeping Analysis of Polyurethane Composites Produced by an Innovative Pultrusion Process....Pages 13-18
Manufacturing Microstructured Surfaces for Automotive Applications....Pages 19-23
The First Water Based Pretreatment System for Direct Glazing....Pages 25-30
Hybrid Command Issuing in a 2-Dof Servomechanism Operated Under Vision-Based Feedback Control....Pages 31-38
Alternative Methods to Increase the Long Term Performance of Laser-Welded Copper Aluminum Connections for Electronic Applications in Mobile Systems....Pages 39-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Investigation and Optimization of Biodiesel Chemistry for HCCI Combustion....Pages 51-58
New Potential of Old Wankel-Type Machines....Pages 59-65
RPM – Rotary Piston Machines: New Class of Innovative Machines....Pages 67-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Inductive Power Transfer System Integration for Battery-Electric Vehicles....Pages 75-83
Performance Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Racing Cars....Pages 85-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Design of Basic Structural Composite Elements....Pages 95-102
Enhancing Sustainability Through the Targeted Use of Synergy Effects Between Material Configuration, Process Development and Lightweight Design at The Example of a Composite Seat Shell....Pages 103-110
Sustainable Design of A Side Door Reinforcing Assembly – Exploratory Optimisation....Pages 111-120
Research and Development of a New and Sustainable Composite: “Natural Stone Laminate”....Pages 121-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
In-Wheel Coupled Suspension and Drive: Design, Development, and Modeling....Pages 131-138
Optimisation of Automotive Seat Kinematics....Pages 139-144
