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Applications in the automotive and transport sectors

• Examples:– Cars and trucks: body panels and stiffeners, tank lorries and Ca s a d t uc s body pa e s a d st e e s, ta o es a d

refrigerated vehicles, caravans and motorhomes, leaf springs and helical springs, driving shafts, suspension elements, spoilers and bumpers, A-, B- and C- door pillars, wheel rims, torsion and stabilising bars, instrument panels, valve push rods and rockers, fans, brake discs...

– Trains, trams and metros: interior panels, doors and seats, cockpits, boogies, brake discs(TGV),...

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Bumpers, spoilers, body panels

Sandwich panels on trucks, caravans,…

All composite amphibian car

Lightweight components on trucks

Pultruded profiles on trucks and busses

Radiators, fans, grids

Engine parts

Leaf spring and valve spring

Leaf spring (Multilink MK.2, Volvo)

Driving shaft (Renault)

Flexible couplings for driving shafts (Spinning-Composites)

Natural fibres and natural fibre composites

Wheel rims with extreme low weight

Ceramic matrix brake discs

Pressure vessels for hydrogen propulsion

Recuperation of kinetic energy by means of composite flywheel

Active noise suppression in vehicles

Motorcycles

Helmets for motorcyclists

Train cockpit

Applications in sports and entertainment

• Examples:– Tennis rackets, bows and arrows, golf sticks, pole sticks, e s ac ets, bo s a d a o s, go st c s, po e st c s,

fishing lines, skis and ski poles, bicycle frames and rims, racing cars, surf-boards, canoes,…

Race bicycleFrame weight below 1kg

Race bicycle

Sports guns and golf sticks

Diverse sports

“Intelligent” ski

Piezoelectric fibres

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Applications in buildings, civil engineering constructions en infrastructure

• Examples:– Facade claddings, construction with large spans, bridge decks, acade c add gs, co st uct o t a ge spa s, b dge dec s,

swimming pools, noise reducting walls, garage ports, sewerage and drainage canals, air supply and removal ducts, tubing of fire-fighting equipement, chimney shafts and liners, masts (for antennas and other), mobile housings, mobile bridges,...

– barriers, road lighting columns, kilometer stones, telephone kiosks,...

Night club (Acapulco, ’40s)

Claddings in airport (Ciba,London)

Fibre reinforced claddings

(Northshore Composites, UK)

Stadium roof construction (Fiberglass)

Lattice girders (Fiberglass)

Lattice in chemical plant

Pedestrian bridge

Refitting of bridge decks

Refitting of concrete structures

Street furniture: telephone poles

Fast (de-)mountable indoor athletics ring

Street furniture: newspaper kiosk

Mobile hangars and sheds

Fibre reinforced composites in housings

(Northshore Composites, UK)

Maintenance-free doors

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