Summary
The American Chemistry Council has put together 14 brief outlines of current thinking on how plastics can help OEMs reach their weight, durability, and crash targets. These vignettes cover everything from plastic fuel tanks to composite driveshafts and front ends to full composite structures like that found on Porsche's Carrera GT. It also covers the relationship between weight, vehicle size, and crashworthiness. Still, the plastics industry has yet to put together a cohesive mix of near- and medium-term examples of its material's unique properties and capabilities in the non-denominational and production-feasible form that worked so well for the steel industry. Without this, it will take time for polymer engineers to work their way into positions powerful enough to see that plastics technology gets a fair hearing.
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Plastics: Playing for Time?
What do you do when your material is a relatively new kid on the block, it doesn't have dozens of case histories backing up each upgrade like its more established competitors, the computer-aided tools for it aren't yet as plentiful, and past pronouncements on how it will s...
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