Conference - Materials in Car Body Engineering 2010

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 Materials in Car Body Engineering 2010 

18 - 19 May 2010
Bad Nauheim/Germany

Managing the material mix

It has become quite obvious that tomorrow's automotive car bodies will consist of an even greater variety of materials and semi-finished products: Steel alloys, from mild steels to ultra-high strengths, compete with an increasing spectrum of aluminium alloys and magnesium to achieve the lightest, economically viable and easily manufacturable car body construction - and fibre reinforced plastics have begun to add some more spice in the mix. Under the constraints of very individual production and cost structures, the core question in car body lightweight design remains: "Which material is optimal for which function?" Naturally, there is no single and no globally valid answer to this question, because all material classes are experiencing a constant technical development as well as varying market conditions. Often, new alloys or new processing experiences open up new application possibilities.

To provide profound aid in this decision-making process for the car body materials of the future is the goal of the Automotive Circle International conference "Materials in Car Body Engineering", which again sets out to present the most important material developments and new uses in automotive car body lightweight design in Bad Nauheim, featuring detailed progress reports from international OEM as well as important system suppliers and research institutions in Bad Nauheim. For the eighth time, the Automotive Circle assembles its leading international network of expert engineers at this event, to document and to discuss intensely the state of these developments - in the conference plenum, in individual talks and, for the first time, also by means of focus workshops, which will be addressing today's challenges in the main material classes.

The conference addresses:
Automotive car body engineers with a responsibility in material-related projects, in pre-development, development, planning and production, from international OEM as well as their system suppliers and engineering service providers.