New stringent European Union regulations, on both emission and fuel consumption are driving the automobile manufacturers in continuous search of suitable lightweight materials. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) is one of the most prominent lightweight materials in use. In addition to the benefit of reduction in weight, the inherent properties of CFRP materials such as acoustic emission, electrical properties of fibers etc. change with the applied load during elastic deformation and failure. This change in properties is the base of the presented idea to assign intelligence to current automotive safety structures made from CFRP material. This paper gives a short review of the work done by various researchers in the field of health monitoring of CFRP structures using electrical resistance. Further, experiments were performed for initial investigations to show the promising usage of the above explained intelligence features. Tube-like and plate-like specimens were used, because of their similarity with automotive structures. It can be concluded, that the mechanisms like elastic bending and micro buckling have very negligible influence on resistance change compared to other mechanisms. The results from the experiments show significant resistance change within 5 to 50 milliseconds after impact. This demonstrates the potential of this concept to be used for crash severity detection in automobiles.


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    Title :

    Investigation of intelligent features for CFRP structure in automotive safety systems


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    Publication date :

    2017-09-01


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    825508 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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