The future of road crashes: paving the path to safer roads

The FlexCrash project represents a pivotal step toward addressing these emerging challenges. The main goal of the project is to use hybrid manufacturing technologies to apply surface patterns using additive manufacturing, with either locally strengthening purposes for the not desired to deform parts, or locally weaken the parts to deform (Crashbox etc.) as well as integration of active systems to maintain mass reduction goals while maintaining safety requirements.

Inhomogeneous Skin Formation and Its Effect on the Tensile Behavior of a High Pressure Die Cast Recycled Secondary AlSi10MnMg(Fe) Alloy

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2024 by Biswajit Dalai, Simon Jonsson, Jörgen Kajberg, Liang Yu (Luleå University of Technology), Manel Da Silva (Eurecat Technology Centre)    Abstract The current study investigated the microstructure evolution, mechanical properties, and fracture behavior of a high pressure die cast (HPDC) novel secondary alloy. The as-cast microstructure comprised (i) Primary…

Characterization and simulation of AlSi10Mg reinforcement structures by DED-LB/P

Journal of Laser Applications (October 2024) by Francesco Bruzzo (Fraunhofer, Institut für Werkstoff und Strahltechnik); Matteo Alberghini, Andrea Bertinetti, Alessio Tommasi (Gemmate Technologies); Mirko Riede (Fraunhofer, Institut für Werkstoff und Strahltechnik); Daniele Pullini (Centro Ricerche Fiat) and Elena López (Fraunhofer, Institut für Werkstoff und Strahltechnik)     Abstract Amongst metal additive manufacturing technologies, Direct Energy…