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.
Automotive composite space frame design and prototype build
Entwicklung und Prototypbau von Verbundkonstruktionen fuer Autokarosserien
Technical Paper. Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; May ; 1-15
1988
15 Seiten
Conference paper
English
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