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Summary of “Magnesium Vision 2020: A North American Automotive Strategic Vision for Magnesium”

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This paper summarizes the monograph, “Magnesium Vision 2020. A North American Automotive Strategic Vision for Magnesium”1 prepared under the auspices of the United States Automotive Materials Partnership The objective was to understand the infrastructural and technical challenge that can increase the use of magnesium in the automotive industry. One hundred sixty three (163) Research and Technology Development Themes (RTDTs), or RTD projects were developed that addressed issues of corrosion, fastening, and processing-other-than-high pressure die casting to produce automotive magnesium parts. A major problem identified in the study is the limited ability of the current magnesium industrial infrastructure to supply RTD and implementation-ready automotive magnesium components. One solution is to create a magnesium cyber center wrhere globally networked experts would be able to innovate in process and product development, model metalworking and non-HPDC foundry processes, and integrate theoretical predictions/models of metallurgical structure with component function.

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  1. LightWeightStrategies, LLC, 25800 Romany Way, Franklin, MI, 48025, USA

    Gerald S. Cole

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  1. Materials Science Division, U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), USA

    Suveen N. Mathaudhu B.S.E., Ph.D. (Program Manager for Synthesis and Processing of Materials, Adjunct Assistant Professor) (Program Manager for Synthesis and Processing of Materials, Adjunct Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

    Suveen N. Mathaudhu B.S.E., Ph.D. (Program Manager for Synthesis and Processing of Materials, Adjunct Assistant Professor) (Program Manager for Synthesis and Processing of Materials, Adjunct Assistant Professor)

  3. The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Alan A. Luo (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering, Vice Chair of TMS Light Metals Division and SAE Materials Division and the Chair of SAE Non-Ferrous Metals Committee) (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering, Vice Chair of TMS Light Metals Division and SAE Materials Division and the Chair of SAE Non-Ferrous Metals Committee)

  4. IND LLC, Canada

    Neale R. Neelameggham (Guru) (Guru)

  5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Washington, USA

    Eric A. Nyberg B.S., M.S. (Chief Engineer) (Chief Engineer)

  6. New Materials & Energy Unit at the research and technology center, European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Netherlands

    Wim H. Sillekens Ph.D. (project manager) (project manager)

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Cole, G.S. (2016). Summary of “Magnesium Vision 2020: A North American Automotive Strategic Vision for Magnesium”. In: Mathaudhu, S.N., Luo, A.A., Neelameggham, N.R., Nyberg, E.A., Sillekens, W.H. (eds) Essential Readings in Magnesium Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48099-2_5

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