When lightweight design concepts are transferred from motor sport to standard production vehicles, this reveals again and again the limits on using fibre composite plastic components: component costs, inexpensive processability within a given production process, adjustment of collision and strength properties until the required limit values are reached, and a joining technique for assembling fibre composite plastic components and metallic structures which is suitable for full-scale production. This situation calls for specific properties to be taken into consideration as early as the concept phase and has serious repercussions affecting even the structure of the fabric. Joining is the key technology in an economically efficient implementation of these innovative ideas which will also meet the requirements made of it. Not only mechanical joining but also adhesive bonding represent possible technical methods for allowing a large number of different combinations of materials to be used in quantity production. A feasibility assessment must take into account not only the problems of electrochemical corrosion but also problems arising from the different thermal expansions of metals and plastics.
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