New Lightweight Structures for Advanced Automotive Vehicles - Safe and Modular

Abstract

The next generations of vehicle designs should be developed aiming for individual mobility whilst also retaining safety, environmental friendliness, and affordability. An essential step for increasing the body's performance in terms of safety and weight is the combination of high-performance materials such as new steel grades or high-performance fibre composite materials with a vehicle architecture optimised for these materials. The basis of the work is the unique synthesis of research fields at the institute, which enables findings from research on alternative power trains to flow directly into novel lightweight and hybrid constructions.