Technical Paper
Development of Application Technique of Aluminum Sandwich Sheets for Automotive Hood
2000-06-12
2000-05-0237
Objective of this study was to develop basic techniques in order to apply aluminum sandwich sheets for an automotive hood part. The aluminum sandwich sheet is the material fabricated by adhering two aluminum skins to one polypropylene core. When it has the same bending stiffness as a steel sheet, it is 65% lighter than the steel sheet and 30% lighter than an aluminum alloy sheet. Therefore, it is notified exclusively as good substitutive materials for a steel body to improve the fuel efficiency. Through aluminum sandwich sheet, however, it has relatively lower formability than that of the steel sheet for automotive application. In this study, we fabricated a prototype of the automotive hood panel to develop application techniques of the aluminum sandwich sheet.
