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11 Aug 2004 - United Kingdom
The Composite Material Research Requirements of the Rail Industry
SUMMARY
Composite materials, such as fibre reinforced plastics and sandwich panels, have considerable potential for use in the
next generation of transport structures. They are lightweight, durable, and readily moulded to shape. However, there are also additional complexities associated with the use of composites, particularly in terms of design and manufacture. These complexities, together with issues of cost, are currently limiting their adoption by the transport sectors.
Throughout 2002 and 2003, the COMPOSIT thematic network on "The Future Use of Composites in Transport" organised a series of workshops on ten of the critical issues associated with the use of composite materials in the aerospace, automotive and rail industries. These ten issues were repair, design and structural simulation,
crashworthiness, manufacturing, lightweighting, joining, recycling, modelling, fire safety, and new material concepts. As an output from each workshop, priorities for
future research activity to meet the needs of the transport sectors were identified.
This report presents the findings of COMPOSIT in terms of the rail industry. Key recommendations for future research
priorities include:
• The development of better prediction methodologies for non-linear behaviour, long-term behaviour, damage
mechanisms / failure modes, and behaviour at elevated strain rates.
• The development of more cost-effective manufacturing technologies.
• The development of life cycle analysis models to quantify the financial and environmental benefits of lightweight
composites.
• The development of better tools for the specification of joints.
• The development of new fire safe resin systems that provide good all-round performance.
Reichhold
Carbon Fabric and Glass Fabric
Chengdu Longpont Composites Co., Ltd.
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