In his article, Evolution of materials in car body design: New concepts, Jesse Wili Paegle Filho, part of Global Technical Business Development Automotive at APERAM, discusses how the automotive sector is always looking for new materials and technologies since safety and emissions requirements have been introduced into the industry. Several different materials, to meet these safety and emission specifications, have been tested in the past with some of them still being used today.
The evolution and plurality of materials, and their applications, are some of the biggest challenges car-makers are currently dealing with; not only in terms of material type, but also in terms of the availability of different materials, which is so amazing and vast that today, each car-maker has identified its own unique strategies for material selection, Filho writes. Aluminum, magnesium, carbon fiber, plastics, and steel are the most common materials chosen, but it is also possible to identify more nonconventional ones.
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