The Composite Intensive Vehicle (CIV), a joint program between Chrysler Motors and the Budd Company, optimizes the use of materials as the marketplace dictates an increasing number of lower-volume vehicles. A common steel platform is married to a number of low-volume composite space frame body style structures. The upper structure, which differentiates the body style, consists of jointless, hollow resin transfer molded (RTM) body sides, front and rear headers, and a rear crossmember panel, adhesively joined to form a structural cage. This cage is bonded, together with common RTM floor and cockpit modules, to the steel platform. A one-piece hollow molding of a body side - including the exterior and interior surfaces surrounding the front door, and quarter window openings - demonstrates large-part processing feasibility and its inherent benefit of parts consolidation.


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    Title :

    Automotive composite space frame design and prototype build


    Additional title:

    Entwicklung und Prototypbau von Verbundkonstruktionen fuer Autokarosserien


    Contributors:
    Freeman, R.B. (author) / Jahnle, H.A. (author) / Rawe, S.E. (author)


    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    15 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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