Carbon Fiber Composites Low Cost Materials Manufacturing Options (PPT)

摘要

1 There is great interest in use of carbon fiber composites for light weight automotive applications 2 Increased use of these materials for automotive requires: - lower cost fibers and intermediate products - low cost / high throughput manufacturing processes - increased design know-how 3 Current processes with continuous fibers (prepreg & RTM) are structurally efficient but are costly and slow. Improved technologies are needed for reduced scrap and faster processes 4 Flow molding processes (SMC & carbon LFT) offer low cost and high throughput for light weight complex structures ; combined with localized reinforcement using continuous fibers provides high structural efficiency 5 Low cost carbon fibers and intermediate products as well as low cost high through put processing technologies are rapidly evolving.