The team wanted to add trunk features and second row seatbelt attachment structures but they also wanted to use the load floor to absorb significant crash energies.
Thermoplastic composite flooring.
A thermocompression production process transforms a stack of plies into a thermoplastic sandwich structure with very high stiffness to weight ratio impact strength and corrosion resistance.
The thermoplastic composite combining a sandwich panel of pp honeycomb and gmt composite skin.
In addition to wood fiber and plastic wpcs can also contain other ligno cellulosic and or inorganic filler materials.
The floor s beam and panel materials were vacuum consolidated in an oven and then sheet formed via a stamping press at the airbus plant in saint nazaire france.
The technology developed and patented by econcore is unique in design.
Chemical additives seem practicall.
Wpcs are a subset of a larger category of materials called natural fiber plastic composites which may contain no cellulose based fiber fillers such as pulp fibers peanut hulls coffe husk bamboo straw digestate etc.
Thermoplastic honeycomb technology reduces the hyundai creta s trunk floor weight by 20 the technology developed and patented by econcore is unique in design.
In place of a thermoset composite airbus used cytec s apc 2 thermoplastic unitape a prepreg that combines as4 carbon fiber from hexcel and cytec s peek.
Sandwiform is a recyclable thermoplastic composite that consists of a honeycombed cellular core placed between two reinforced thermoplastic skins.