Wood based structural components for the automotive industry
Abstract
New lightweight materials are demand in the automotive industry. Wood is a light weight material with excellent mechanical properties. In the past wood was widely used as a constructive material in aircraft manufacturing and automotive industry. In the first decades of the 20th century big research programs were performed to study and to describe the material properties of wood and wood based materials. The development, construction and engineering process in the automotive industry depends on computer programs and software solution. Beside static and dynamic loads also crash behaviour is simulated on computers. Even material processing is based on computer simulation. Beside valid mathematical models material data bases are demanded for finite element modelling and other material simulation programs. For state of the art simulation programs used in the automotive industry no data bases concerning wood and wood based materials and composites are available. During the last two decades finite element modelling was introduced into modern timber engineering. Especially elastic constants are based on old literature data. Therefore it is assumed that mechanical data of wood and wood composites available in literature is also applicable on simulation programs developed and designed for the automotive industry. However, it remains to if existing data describing mechanical and physical properties of wood and wood composites can be applied on computer programs simulating loads and crash behaviour. Wood elements are used in the automotive industry for decorative purposes. However, the projects aims at introducing wood based composites as a constructive and load bearing material for vehicles. The project investigates the technical and economic potential of wood for modern vehicle construction. Based on this feasibility study a R&D project should be generated, e.g. in the framework of FFG COMET. The research project is performed in a close cooperation with the K2 centre VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research Center and participating industrial partners: Magna Steyr Engineering, Lean MC, Weitzer Parkett and AC-Styria.
Wood Structural component Load bearing Material science FE-Modelling
Publikationen
Holz im strukturellen Fahrzeugbau
Autoren: Leitgeb, W.; Kirschbichler, S.; Jost, T.; Mayrhofer, P.; Wagner, W.; Müller, U. Jahr: 2016
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Ulrich Müller
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ulrich Müller
ulrich.mueller@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89112
Project Leader
01.04.2015 - 31.03.2016
Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter
wolfgang.gindl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89111
Project Staff
01.04.2015 - 31.03.2016
Maximilian Pramreiter
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Maximilian Pramreiter B.Sc.
maximilian.pramreiter@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89123
Project Staff
01.04.2015 - 31.03.2016
BOKU partners
External partners
Wood Cluster Styria
none
partner
DI Gottfried Steiner_x000D_ Innovation Business – IB STEINER
none
partner
Weitzer Holding GmbH
none
partner