Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2011

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Evaluating Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY

   1. A Holistic Approach to Sustainability Evaluations in the Automotive Industry

      • J. Weber, M. Bowler, T. Kurfess

      Pages 3-10

4. Technologies for Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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5. TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRODUCTION

   1. Flexural Creeping Analysis of Polyurethane Composites Produced by an Innovative Pultrusion Process

      • S. Bruckmeier, J. Wellnitz

      Pages 13-18

   2. Manufacturing Microstructured Surfaces for Automotive Applications

      • A. Cannon, M. Maguire, R. Hulseman, W. King

      Pages 19-23

   3. The First Water Based Pretreatment System for Direct Glazing

      • W.-R. Huck

      Pages 25-30

   4. Hybrid Command Issuing in a 2-Dof Servomechanism Operated Under Vision-Based Feedback Control

      • C. Montes, C. Wong, J. Ziegert, L. Mears

      Pages 31-38

   5. Alternative Methods to Increase the Long Term Performance of Laser-Welded Copper Aluminum Connections for Electronic Applications in Mobile Systems

      • M. Weigl, F. Albert, M. Schmidt

      Pages 39-47

6. Combustion Engines and Fuels

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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7. COMBUSTION ENGINES AND FUELS

   1. Investigation and Optimization of Biodiesel Chemistry for HCCI Combustion

      • B. Bunting, M. Bunce, B. Joyce, R. Crawford

      Pages 51-58

   2. New Potential of Old Wankel-Type Machines

      • B. Schapiro

      Pages 59-65

   3. RPM – Rotary Piston Machines: New Class of Innovative Machines

      • E. Wilhelm, J. Wellnitz

      Pages 67-72

8. Hydrogen and Electric Vehicle Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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9. HYDROGEN AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES

   1. Inductive Power Transfer System Integration for Battery-Electric Vehicles

      • A. Lorico, J. Taiber, T. Yanni

      Pages 75-83

   2. Performance Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Racing Cars

      • G. Pearson, M. Leary, A. Subic, J. Wellnitz

      Pages 85-91

10. Materials and Structures

    1. Front Matter

       Pages 93-93

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11. MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES

    1. Design of Basic Structural Composite Elements

       • H. Bansemir

       Pages 95-102

    2. Enhancing Sustainability Through the Targeted Use of Synergy Effects Between Material Configuration, Process Development and Lightweight Design at The Example of a Composite Seat Shell

       • W. Hufenbach, M. Krahl, R. Kupfer, S. Rothenberg, T. Weber, P. Lucas

       Pages 103-110

    3. Sustainable Design of A Side Door Reinforcing Assembly – Exploratory Optimisation

       • M. Kajtaz

       Pages 111-120

These proceedings capture papers presented at the third International Conferences on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), held at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), Greenville, South Carolina, USA, during 5-6 April 2011. ICSAT is the state-of-the-art conference in the field of new technologies for transportation. The book summarizes all important trends in sustainability of automotive development today with a special focus on materials, propulsion technologies as well as manufacturing issues. It provides a brief selection of papers and key-note speakers of the conference. Papers from the US, Australia, Europe and Asia are showing the lighthouse character of the conference, in a field which gains more and more importance as far as emissions and the lack of fossil fuels in the future are concerned. The book provides a very good overview of R&D activities at OEMs as well as in leading universities and laboratories; the special focus is on new ideas for sustainable mobility.

• automotive technology
• combustian engines
• composite structure
• energy storage
• lightweight
• manufacturing
• materials
• powertrain
• recycling
• sustainability

• CU-ICAR, Greenville, USA

  Steve Hung

• , School of Aerospace, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia

  Aleksandar Subic

• UAS-Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany

  Jörg Wellnitz

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