REDUCING VEHICLE WEIGHT

Developments in high strength, lightweight materials offer the automotive engineer opportunities to reduce vehicle weight while increasing structural strength. Yet, how can you predict the effects that materials changes will have on vehicle weight? Here's a computer analytic technique that offers a method of estimating potential weight reductions. /GMRL/

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/2240909
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers

  485 Lexington Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10017
• Publication Date: 1975-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 7 p.
• Serial:
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Volume: 83
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0098-2571

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Information processing; Materials; Motor vehicle bodies; Reduction (Chemistry); Vehicle design; Weight
• Old TRIS Terms: Automobile bodies; Reduction
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00095997
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1975 12:00AM