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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Composite Cars?

Professor Dan Adams (University of Utah, Salt Lake City) has been at the forefront of the effort to bring composite materials into the automotive industry. The main driver behind this (no pun intended!) is the need to make cars lighter overall in order to reduce fuel consumption, all while maintaining or increasing safety.

Adams has been working with international organizations to develop unique and novel new “crashworthiness” tests and fixtures to better understand how composite materials will behave under impact conditions.

Check out this article

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