
Publica
Hier finden Sie wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten. Metal foam applications in railway industry and mining
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. -DGM-, Oberursel: Cellular Materials 2014. CD-ROM : CellMAT 2014; 22 - 24 October 2014, Dresden Dresden, 2014 7 pp. |
| International Conference on Cellular Materials (CellMAT) <3, 2014, Dresden> |
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| Fraunhofer IWU () |
Abstract
The automobile industry shows us the direction. Vehicles shall continually become lighter, more efficient, ecologically and, at the same time, stay affordable. The customer's increasing ecological sensibility and a general social responsibility in the use of resources bring issues such as electro mobility or the application of high-performance materials into the focus of developmental work. Automobile manufacturers such as BMW are implementing what no one deemed to be possible before - the production of car bodies made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) in series. A comparable light weight innovation technology was generated by researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute of Machine Tools and Forming Industry with a different kind of material: metal foams. The following two examples are taken from two different industries and shall illustrate the application of metal foam.