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20 Aluminum: An Overnight Sensation
Decades in the Making
26 Creating a Low-Cost Chassis Architecture
The engineers at Zenos Cars have combined recycled carbon fber, drinking
straws and aluminum to create a chassis for a low-volume sports car.
32 Advancing Materials Through Advanced
Research & Development @ DuPont
Jef Sternberg is helping automakers achieve their lightweight objectives
as he is DuPont's global automotive technology director.
36 Systems Engineering in
Product Development
Systems engineering is increasingly being recognized as a valuable
approach to vehicle development—both in design and production. Siemens
posits that PLM is the right software system for systems engineering.
38 On the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe
They start with the platform that gave rise to the award-winning ATS
Sedan, then created a stylish, striking compact coupe that's targeted at
European competitors.
42 Sharper Focus for the Hyundai Sonata
The Jaguar F-Type—
like all recent
Jaguar vehicles—is
aluminum-intensive.
(And given that Ford
owned Jaguar not
all that long ago,
learnings about
processing the
material probably
came across the
Atlantic for the
2015 F-150.)
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Sharper
Focus for the
Hyundai Sonata
The last-generation Hyundai
Sonata changed the midsize
segment through its design.
So what does the company
do for an encore?
COVER STORY:
Aluminum: An Overnight
Sensation Decades in
the Making
The use of aluminum has been
long in coming in the auto
industry. Longer, by far, than
even some people in the
aluminum industry had
imagined.