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Touchscreen displays are of growing interest to the aerospace community and are having a significant impact on how pilots interact with avionics. With the right hardware construction and software algorithm, a touchscreen display can manage and present information and controls to the pilot in an intuitive manner. This paper describes a hardware touchscreen rationale, primarily focusing on the lighting performance of a touchscreen display modified for flight deck applications. Specifically, we describe a durable glass-on-film-on-glass resistive touchscreen display with improved high ambient contrast ratio (HACR) properties and a low friction, lipophobic textured front-surface that disrupts the distinctiveness of reflective images.

This paper provides a detailed summary of the aluminum industry's recent efforts to gather, check, and accurately model environmental emissions and resource consumption inventory data from industrial processes producing automotive aluminum components. Current as well as historical inventory data on critical variables related to the life cycle of automotive aluminum components are also presented. In particular, accurate and reliable data related to metal flows from both primary aluminum and recycling operations to the automotive industry, together with data regarding electricity supply for aluminum smelting operations are highlighted. On-going industry efforts and partnerships are described “to help automakers provide consumers with safe, affordable, and environmentally enhanced cars and light trucks.”

This paper describes a project that is currently being undertaken in the United Kingdom. The project is to investigate the structural response of a passenger vehicle under five conditions of frontal impact: i) Full frontal impact (0 degree) into a rigid barrier ii Angled impact (30 degree) into a rigid barrier iii) 40% overlap impact into a rigid barrier iv) Full frontal impact (0 degree) into a deformable barrier v) 40 % overlap impact into a deformable barrier. The work has two primary aims. Firstly to provide structural engineers with information on the degree of complexity that is required to accurately model the crashworthiness of the vehicle. Secondly to provide information that can be used by legislators when setting future vehicle safety regulations. The paper concentrates on the crash analysis simulations that are being performed in the non-linear finite element code OASYS DYNA3D.