Evolution FP7 funded project: body structure design strategies using new composite and aluminium materials and enabled technologies

Enrico Mangino; Estibaliz Alcalde; César Maestro; Francesca Di Paolo; Jesper DeClaville Christiansen; Catalina Gabriela Sanporean; John P. Deverill; Elena Cischino; Cristina Elizetxea; Iratxe Lopez; Zina Vuluga; Mikelis Kirpluks; Peteris Cabulis

doi:10.1504/ijautoc.2017.10012539

Evolution FP7 funded project: body structure design strategies using new composite and aluminium materials and enabled technologies

Enrico Mangino, Estibaliz Alcalde, César Maestro, Francesca Di Paolo, Jesper DeClaville Christiansen, Catalina Gabriela Sanporean, John P. Deverill, Elena Cischino, Cristina Elizetxea, Iratxe Lopez, Zina Vuluga, Mikelis Kirpluks, Peteris Cabulis

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Based on Pininfarina Nido EV concept, EVolution aims to reduce the vehicle weight through new materials and process technologies, focused on five demonstrators: underbody, front crossbeam, mechanical subframe, shotgun system and door. This paper refers to body structure design strategies using new composite, Al materials and enabled technologies, focusing in particular on demonstrators design and manufacturing. The new front crossbeam geometry of the front shell is adapted starting from the Nanotough design, while the rear shell is specific for EVolution. The subframe demonstrator is redesigned to fulfil mechanical requirements of the part and manufacturing feasibility either. The EVolution door concept consists of two semistructural composite skins including a structural Al frame. The underbody is conceived through an integrated approach, optimising each element for its function. The shotgun component is designed to link parts obtained with different manufacturing technologies and several aluminium alloys in one single component: the structural node demonstrator.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-275
Number of pages	25
Journal	International Journal of Automotive Composites
Volume	3
Issue number	45384
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/ijautoc.2017.10012539
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018

Keywords

Body in white
Lightweighting
Composites
Aluminium
Electric vehicles

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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/314744/EU/The Electric Vehicle revOLUTION enabled by advanced materials highly hybridized into lightweight components for easy integration and dismantling providing a reduced life cycle cost logic/ EVOLUTION
Funding Info
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union_x000D_Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 314744.

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Mangino, E., Alcalde, E., Maestro, C., Di Paolo, F., DeClaville Christiansen, J., Sanporean, C. G., Deverill, J. P., Cischino, E., Elizetxea, C., Lopez, I., Vuluga, Z., Kirpluks, M., & Cabulis, P. (2018). Evolution FP7 funded project: body structure design strategies using new composite and aluminium materials and enabled technologies. International Journal of Automotive Composites, 3(45384), 251-275. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijautoc.2017.10012539

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Evolution FP7 funded project: body structure design strategies using new composite and aluminium materials and enabled technologies

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