Innovative Design - Route to Functionally Graded Structures

2017-26-0157

01/10/2017

Event
Symposium on International Automotive Technology 2017
Authors Abstract
Content
Functionally graded materials enable structures to have distribution of different properties (physical, thermal, electrical, mechanical, etc.) across its volume; achievable via material/ design/ process engineering. These functionally graded materials can find an application in systems which demand localized variation or enhancement in properties in different regions of the same component.
In this paper, we focus on the potential ways of designing functionally graded polymer composite structure by injection molding process. Advanced mold designs for injection molding process can be effectively used to manufacture the functionally graded structures. Innovative design approach has been explored to control the distribution of the filler content /orientation to impart distinctive properties across the cross section / geometry without affecting the bulk properties. This work also opens up future opportunities to predict structure-property relations of complex micro-structural morphologies that the functionally graded materials have to offer.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2017-26-0157
Pages
4
Citation
Konka, H., Ramachandran, A., Pankaj, S., Ganesan, P. et al., "Innovative Design - Route to Functionally Graded Structures," SAE Technical Paper 2017-26-0157, 2017, https://doi.org/10.4271/2017-26-0157.
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Published
Jan 10, 2017
Product Code
2017-26-0157
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English