Leaf springs automotive

Hybrid Processes. There are also hybrid processes that have evolved to meet specific product needs. As an example, automotive leaf springs utilize a filament winding system to prepare impregnated fiber bundles that are then compression molded to final configuration. 

Composites are being employed in a number of automotive applications. These include racing car bodies as well as regular automobiles. Most automobiles have the lower exterior panels composed of rubbery, plastic blends, and/or composite materials. Corvettes have composite bodies that allow a lightweight vehicle with decent fuel economy and they do not rust. Other parts such as drive shafts and leaf springs in private cars and heavy trucks, antennas, and bumpers are being made from composite materials. 

Epoxy Adhesive, automotive leaf springs (with glass fiber), bicycle frames (with carbon fiber), etc. 

In fact, various areas of application for fiber reinforced composites exist, e.g. in the automotive area they could be used for crash elements, dashboards, fenders or leaf springs. On the one hand, some of these components are already produced from fiber reinforced polymeric composites but, on the other hand, they usually just replace the original metal designs. So the peculiarities of fiber reinforced composites are not considered or only partially exploited (such as specific stiffness and strength as well as the high capacity of energy absorption). In order to... 

Other automotive applications include pulformed leaf springs, bumpers, door... 

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