Develkopment of Value Added Extruded Products in the Rail, Shipbuilding and Electrical Market Supported by Finite Element Anlaysis (FEM)

摘要

Extruded aluminum sectiosn play a key weight-saving role in the transportation market. Engineering and technical support of Hoogovens Aluminium enables the customer to realize lighweight products with a high lifetime efficiency, combined with enormous time and cost savings in production. Use of large and complicated hollow sections in the railway market in order to achieve these targets will be demosntrated using an aluminum bodyshell for railway vehicles as examples. The proces from the design of the frist aluminum profiles until the final design of the bodyshell based on Finite Element Analysis will be described. Pre-fabricated welded aluminum panels are an important contribution to the lightweight design of fast ferries and cruise liners.