Usilight
Weight reduction: 20% to 40% Stiffness: two to three times higher than steel Sound damping: loss factor = 10-2 Dent resistance as good as Bake hardening steel Cost-effective Forming and painting via existing tools of car manufacturers Recycled as ordinary steel (good ranking in term of total CO2 emissions) Applications:
Exposed parts: hood, roof, hatchback, doors, wings Inner parts: spare wheel housing, inside panels
Objectives
Further development of Usilight as
- High stiffness sandwich steel sheet
- Lightweighting solution for the automotive industry
Competencies
- Steel sheet processes
- Polymer
- Sandwich process
- Forming & joining
- Finite Element Method simulation (FEM)
Properties
Usilight is a sandwich panel made of two thin steel skins and a polymer core:
- Steel skin: 0.25 mm
- Polmyer core: 0.4 to 1.5 mm
- Steel skin: 0.25 mm
Advantages: