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Nylon RIM Development for Automotive Body Panels
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The performance and production requirements for future passenger vehicles has increased the efforts to replace metal body panels with plastic materials. This has been accomplished, to a large extent on some production vehicles that have been introduced recently. Unfortunately, these plastic body applications have necessitated special off-line handling or low temperature paint processing. However, the advantages of RIM nylon, offer the potential for uniquely new plastic body designs, that can be processed through existing assembly plants, much like the steel panels they are intended to replace. The intent of this paper is to discuss the rationale for future plastic body panel material selection and related nylon RIM development efforts.
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Skirha, M. and Ferber, G., "Nylon RIM Development for Automotive Body Panels," SAE Technical Paper 850157, 1985, https://doi.org/10.4271/850157.Also In
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- Modern Plastics Encyclopedia 61 1 57 New York McGraw-Hill Jan. 1984 Chemical and Engineering News 61 22 14 Chemical Marketing Reporter Feb. 28 1983 5 S.R.I. World Petrochemical International 3
- Gabbert J. D. Hedrick R. M. “Properties of Rim Nylon 6 BLock Copolymer” A.I.C.H.E. National Summer Meeting Detroit, MI. Aug. 17 1981