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Eco-Material Selection for Lightweight Vehicle Design

In: Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Lighting - a Bet for the Future

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  • Mohammad Omar
  • Ahmad Mayyas

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In order for automakers to meet the new stringent environmental policies and to improve fuel efficiency of their vehicles, they started to change the design of their vehicles to be better aerodynamically, to downside their vehicle sizes, thus they can reduce the engine size as well, and to increase the level of the electrification (partial or full electrification) of their fleet vehicles. Lightweight design is another widely used strategy to improve fuel economy of automobiles. Potential lightweight material needs to be cost effective, has the ability to reduce the weight of the vehicle and can meet the functionality requirements. Thus, we need a systematic material selection process that takes into consideration all design aspects such as cost, performance, and environmental impacts. Eco-material selection provides a systematic method for material selection and takes into account material's mechanical properties, cost, and ability to reduce environmental impacts over product's lifetime. This chapter summarizes methods of eco-material selections for automotive structural panels in the body-in-white. A set of numerical and qualitative metrics for eco-material selection will be developed and discussed in this chapter. These metrics cover products' environmental impact, functionality, manufacturability, economic, and societal and safety factors.

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  • Mohammad Omar & Ahmad Mayyas, 2020. "Eco-Material Selection for Lightweight Vehicle Design," Chapters, in: Manuel J. Hermoso-Orzaez & Alfonso Gago-Calderon (ed.), Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Lighting - a Bet for the Future, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:191944
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88372
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    1. Lars Reimer & Alexander Kaluza & Felipe Cerdas & Jens Meschke & Thomas Vietor & Christoph Herrmann, 2020. "Design of Eco-Efficient Body Parts for Electric Vehicles Considering Life Cycle Environmental Information," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-28, July.
    2. Ihwan Ghazali & Salwa Hanim Abdul-Rashid & Siti Zawiah Md Dawal & Nurul Huda & Amir Husni Mohd Shariff & Safarudin Gazali Herawan & Fu Haw Ho & Novita Sakundarini, 2021. "Guidelines for Designing Green Products Considering Customers’ Cultural Preferences," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-27, January.
    3. Asada, Raphael & Cardellini, Giuseppe & Mair-Bauernfeind, Claudia & Wenger, Julia & Haas, Verena & Holzer, Daniel & Stern, Tobias, 2020. "Effective bioeconomy? a MRIO-based socioeconomic and environmental impact assessment of generic sectoral innovations," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 153(C).
    4. Giampieri, A. & Ling-Chin, J. & Ma, Z. & Smallbone, A. & Roskilly, A.P., 2020. "A review of the current automotive manufacturing practice from an energy perspective," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(C).

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    Keywords

    automotive; body-in-white; eco-material selection; lightweight design; sustainability;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources

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