ARTICLE:
Kermit Whitfield
Building the future
Automotive Design & Production
January 2004.
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NEWS:
BMW Continues Composite Research for Series Cars
www.CompositeNews.com
30 January 2004.
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GLOSSARY:
Hans Dieter Mueller (European Alliance for SMC)
Glossary: Terms being used in the SMC/BMC-Industry

European Alliance for SMC, 18 January 2004
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NEWS:
Weighing up the advantages
e4engineering.com
The Engineer, 05 December 2003.
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ARTICLE:
Dodge shines at SPE awards program
Automotive Engineering International Online
January 2003.
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PRESENTATION:
Andrei A. Gusev Institute of Polymers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Computer-aided design of structural parts from short fiber reinforced composites

ETHZ Materials Day 2003 - Kurzfassungen, ETH Zurich, 2003.
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PAPER:
Frank V. Billotto, Mansour M. Mirdamadi and Brad A. Pearson Dow Automotive
Design, Application Development, and Launch of Polyurethane Foam Systems in Vehicle Structures
Dow Automotive
- SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-0333, 2003.
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NEWS:
Carbon fiber lightens the load on Mercedes SLR

Autotech Daily - 4 September 2003
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PAPER:
B M Weager, C D Rudd, M J Clifford
Evaluation of the Denting Performance of Hybrid Composite/Metal Laminates for Lightweight Automotive Body Panels

24th International Conference of SAMPE EUROPE, Paris, France, 1-3 April 2003.
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PAPER:
B M Weager, C D Rudd, M J Clifford
Dent resistance of hybrid composite/metal laminates for lighweight automotive body structures

14th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-14), San Diego, USA, 14-18 July 2003.
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NEWS:
Alisa Priddle, Drew Winter
Chrysler Backs Away From Plastic Car Program
Ward's Auto World
April 1, 2002.
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ARTICLE:
Andrew Mills (Materials World)
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite Car
AZoM
Materials World, Vol 10, no. 9 pp. 20-22, September 2002.
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ARTICLE:
Andrew Mills
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite Car
Azom.com
Materials World, Vol 10, no. 9 pp. 20-22, September 2002.
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ARTICLE:
Ideas and concepts with Bayer materials for the car interior of tomorrow

Bayer Polymers, December 2002.
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ARTICLE:
Innovative system solutions with Bayer materials for car interiors

Bayer Polymers, November 2002.
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PRESENTATION:
Durability of Carbon-Fiber Composites

FY2002 ORNL Transportation Program, November 2002.
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PRESENTATION:
Low-Cost Carbon Fiber Production

FY2002 ORNL Transportation Program, November 2002.
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PRESENTATION:
Microwave Assisted Plasma (MAP) Manufacturing of Carbon Fibers

FY2002 ORNL Transportation Program, November 2002.
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PRESENTATION:
Modeling of Composite Preform Manufacturing

FY2002 ORNL Transportation Program, November 2002.
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PAPER:
Michael Sommer
Latest automobile applications in SMC, BMC and TMC

5th International AVK-TV Conference, Baden-Baden, 17-18 September 2002.
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PAPER:
Fons Harbers (DSM Structural Resins)
Advances in SMC/BMC Automotive Applications - PAPER
The European Alliance for SMC
IBEC 2002, 7-11 July 2002.
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PRESENTATION:
Fons Harbers (DSM Structural Resins)
Advances in SMC/BMC Automotive Applications - PRESENTATION
The European Alliance for SMC
IBEC 2002, 7-11 July 2002.
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REPORT:
Sujit Das (Energy Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The cost of automotive polymer composites: a review and assessment of Doe's lightweight materials composites research
Center for Transportation Analysis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Report No. ORNL/TM-2000/283, Prepared for the Office of Advanced Automotive Technology - Office of Transportation Technologies - U. S. Department of Energy, January 2001.
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ARTICLE:
Tara Baukus Mello
The Automotive Future - Composite Bodies: A Critical Feature of Tomorrow's Automobiles
Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI Syndicated Article Series on Advance Automotive Technology, January 2001
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PRESENTATION:
Olivier Beffort and Florian Moll EMPA Thun
Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) - From Space to Earth

ETHZ Materials Day 2001 - Kurzfassungen, ETH Zurich, 2001.
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PAPER:
Scott T. Burr and Gavin D. Vogel Dow Automotive
Material Model Development for Impact Analysis of Oriented Polypropylene Foam Structures
Dow Automotive
- SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0310, 2001.
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PAPER:
Vikas Gupta, Mick Heckert, Jane Palmieri, Greg Korchnak, Eric Kurtycz and Mansour Mirdamadi Dow Automotive
All Thermoplastic Lightweight Structural Rear-Seat-Back
Dow Automotive
- SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0324, 2001.
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PAPER:
Chung P. Park, Sandrine Burgun and Michel Brucker (Dow Deutschland OHG), Suresh Subramonian (The Dow Chemical Co.)
Novel Acoustical Polyolefin Foams
Dow Automotive
- SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-1556, 2001.
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PAPER:
B M Weager, C D Rudd (School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering and Management - University of Nottingham, University Park, UK)
Hybrid Processing of Composite/Metal Laminates for Lightweight Automotive Body Structures

ECCM-10 Conference, Brugge, Belgium, 3-6 June 2001.
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PAPER:
B M Weager, C D Rudd
Evaluation of the interface durability of hybrid composite/metal laminates for lightweight automotive body structures

10th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM-10), Brugge, Belgium, 3-6 June 2001
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PRESENTATION:
Stanley A. Iobst (General Motors), C. H. Mao, Douglas L. Denton (DaimlerChrysler)
Optimizing of the SRIM Process for the ACC Composite Pickup Truck Box

Proceedings of the 2001 Windsor Workshop on Transportation Fuels
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PRESENTATION:
Gilles Schlienger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SRIM in Large Structural Body
Materials Systems Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts - May 9th 2000.
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NEWS:
Bill Visnic
Injection Molding for Low-Cost High Mileage
Ward's Auto World
March 1, 2000.
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NEWS:
Dodge Viper GTS/R Has One-Piece Carbon Composite Body
Composites/Plastics
January 2000
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NEWS:
Dodge ESX3 Concept Car has Composite Body
Composites/Plastics
February 2000
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BROCHURE:
Baypreg® F - Polyurethane plus natural materials in cars

Bayer Polymers, March 2000.
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PAPER:
Robert McGee, Tania West, Jeff Wolok (The Dow Chemical Company)
Polymeric Dry Film Adhesives with Improved Structural Stiffness and Higher Heat Performance for Automotive Headliner Applications
The Dow Chemical Company
Automotive & Trasprtation Interiors Expo Conference 2000
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PAPER:
Myron J. Maurer, Niek B. Bindels, Martin H. Tusim
High Efficiency Energy Absorbing (EA) Foam for Automotive Vehicle Crashworthiness Applications
The Dow Chemical Company
Automotive & Trasprtation Interiors Expo Conference 2000
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ARTICLE:
Plastic Body Panels for Cars
Azom.com
Materials World, Vol. 7 no. 1, pp. 16-18 January 1999.
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BROCHURE:
Bayfill® EA - Energy-Absorbing Polyurethane for the Automotive Industry

Bayer Polymers, November 1999.
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ARTICLE:
Plastics - A Material of Choice in the Automotive Industry
APME
- Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe, Summer 1999.
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ARTICLE:
Neil Mayne Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe
Plastics - A Material of Choice in the Automotive Industry
APME
- Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe, September 1999.
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CONFERENCE PAPER:
Joel P. Clark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Future of Automotive Body Materials: Steel, Aluminum & Polymer Composites
Materials Systems Laboratory
Hoogovens Technology Day, October 1998.
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BROCHURE:
Bayflex® 20/30 - The flexible integral skin foam system for the automotive sector

Bayer Polymers, July 1998.
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LINK:
S. Milton and S.M. Grove (University of Plymouth)
Light Weight Composite Chassis
Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (University of Plymouth)

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CONFERENCE PAPER:
S. Milton and S.M. Grove (University of Plymouth)
Composite Sandwich Panel Manufacturing Concepts for a Lightweight Vehicle Chassis
Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (University of Plymouth)
Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium of Automotive Technology and Automation, ISATA, Florence, June 1997.
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ARTICLE:
Polyurethane raw materials from Bayer - Driving ahead in automotive construction

Bayer Polymers, December 1996.
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REPORT:
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
New Structural Materials Technologies: Opportunities for the Use of Advanced Ceramics and Composites

OTA-TM-E-32 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1986).
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MANUAL:
SP Systems - Composites Engineering Materials
SP Systems Guide to Composites
SP Systems

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PAPER:
Prabhu Kandachar
Agricultural Fibres for Product Design & Development

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2001.
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BROCHURE:
European Alliance for SMC
Closing the Loop - Recycling


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