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Dow Automotive Collaborates with Clemson Students to Support Lightweighting Goals

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August 5, 2015

Following a successful partnership in 2014, Dow Automotive Systems reportedly is again collaborating on advanced technology and application ideas with students at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

Each year, the CU-ICAR students work with an automotive manufacturer to develop a concept vehicle that achieves futuristic goals. Working collaboratively, students, multi-disciplinary faculty and participating industry partners like Dow Automotive Systems reportedly focus on producing a new vehicle prototype each year. This year’s version, the Deep Orange 5 vehicle, is focused on achieving personal urban mobility for mega-cities in 2020, and is targeted for marketing to generations Y and Z.

This year, CU-ICAR students specified Dow Automotive Systems BETAFORCE™ and BETAMATE™ structural adhesives as part of the Deep Orange 5 vehicle joining strategy, with the goal of successfully bonding aluminum and carbon fiber composite for body panels and the vehicle structure. Epoxy resins from Dow Automotive Systems were also specified for the upper body structures that were produced via a resin transfer molding on a carbon fiber pre-form. The carbon fiber and epoxy materials reportedly enabled weight savings and helped create a lower center of gravity for the vehicle.

“To help the Deep Orange development team achieve their lightweighting goals, Dow Automotive Systems created a customized formulation of a VORAFORCE™ epoxy resin matrix system,” said Allan James, composite structures marketing manager. “This enabled the VORAFORCE to offer an adjusted cure time to work with the Deep Orange development system. It’s exactly like the collaborative work we do with customers. Once we understand their production goals and systems, we can formulate products that meet specific needs.”

“Working with the experienced team and proven materials from Dow Automotive Systems gave us great insight and helped us achieve some of our most important goals,” said Paul Venhovens, Ph.D., BMW endowed chair in systems integration at CU-ICAR. “We were pleased to successfully bond dissimilar substrates and get an epoxy system for the carbon fiber structures that would support our production capabilities. We look forward to working with Dow Automotive Systems again on the Deep Orange 6 vehicle.”

 For more information, visit www.dowautomotive.com.  

KEYWORDS: adhesives in automotive innovation lightweighting sealants in automotive

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