d Applications 2of3 Composites

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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


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Sandwich panels on trucks, caravans,…


All composite amphibian car


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Lightweight components on trucks


Pultruded profiles on trucks and busses


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Radiators, fans, grids


Engine parts


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Engine parts


Leaf spring and valve spring


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Leaf spring (Multilink MK.2, Volvo)


Driving shaft (Renault)


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Flexible couplings for driving shafts (Spinning-Composites)


Natural fibres and natural fibre composites


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Wheel rims with extreme low weight


Ceramic matrix brake discs


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Pressure vessels for hydrogen propulsion


Recuperation of kinetic energy by means of composite flywheel


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Active noise suppression in vehicles


Motorcycles


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Helmets for motorcyclists


Train cockpit


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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


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Race bicycle


Sports guns and golf sticks


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Diverse sports


“Intelligent” ski

Piezoelectric fibres


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intelligentski

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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)


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Claddings in airport (Ciba,London)


Fibre reinforced claddings


(Northshore Composites, UK)

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Stadium roof construction (Fiberglass)


Lattice girders (Fiberglass)


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Lattice in chemical plant


Pedestrian bridge


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Refitting of bridge decks


Refitting of concrete structures


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Street furniture: telephone poles


Fast (de-)mountable indoor athletics ring


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Street furniture: newspaper kiosk


Mobile hangars and sheds


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Fibre reinforced composites in housings


(Northshore Composites, UK)

Maintenance-free doors


d Applications 2of3 Composites

Documents

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d t uc s body pa e s

e s ac ets

instrument panels

wheel rims

interior panels

sandwich panels

leaf springs