Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door USING BIO-DERIVED CNC as bubble nucleating agent and reinforcement for foamed plastics in automotive application for lightweighting and decreasing carbon footprint. CARBON REDUCTION Working with industry partners, the Clemson team engineered and constructed an ultra-lightweight thermoplastics composites door that enables [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL (CNC) has exceptional properties, however, its strong tendency to agglomerate during the melt processing largely hindered its application as reinforcing filler for the commodity composite. NANOCOMPOSITE We are endeavoring to address this dispersion problem, towards which studies [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door MOTIVATED BY THE CONCEPT of the integrative production systems, hybrid process of polymer injection molding and sheet metal forming, known as Hybrid Single-Shot (HSS), has been introduced to manufacture sheet metal-polymer components using a single tooling, machinery, and operating system. During [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door A TEAM LED BY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY will soon begin a $5.81 million research project aimed at developing an ultra-lightweight door expected to help automakers in their race to meet federal fuel economy standards. SCALABLE Researchers will use carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door AS PART OF A SCRA GRANT for the unification of various connected systems, Clemson researchers deployed a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system program called Ignition on a Windows server hosted at a Clemson University data center. The system was [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door IN COLLABORATION WITH JTEKT KOYO, Clemson researchers advanced the fundamental understanding of material and process dynamics for optimal design of a bearing’s polymeric cage. PROCESS DYNAMICS JTEKT North America is a leader in automotive bearings. It has been a part [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door USING SUPERCRITICAL FOAM INJECTION molding technologies to lightweight hang on parts such as bumpers and trims. This is part of a four-year project that to address the needs of Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). NUCLEATING Principal investigator Dr. Srikanth Pilla, [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS INVENTED AT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY could help reduce the time and cost it takes to manufacture components that are composed of different materials and need to be joined together, researchers said. Even better, the process could be automated [...]
Ultra-lightweight 100% recyclable scalable production door IN 2016, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS began work for a $5.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to pioneer technology for fuel-savings, energy efficiency, and to meet the U.S. corporate average fuel economy standards. RECYCLABILITY Working with industry partners, the [...]
