A heavy truck advanced composite frame rail design was deveopled by General Dynamics Convair Division for General Motors Truck and Coach Division. Design criteria required the composite rail have the same stiffness and strength as the production steel rail. The resulting 5.8 m long graphite and Kevlar reinforced epoxy rail weighs 43.2 kg, compared with 113.4 kg for the steel rail, a 62 percent saving this paper discusses the design, fabrication, testing, and evaluation of two prototype frame rails. Several potential high volume production techniques are briefly discussed. (Peters)


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    Title :

    Design, fabrication and evaluation of experimental advanced composite truck frame rails


    Additional title:

    Konstruktion, Herstellung und Bewertung von modernen Experimentalrahmentraegern in Verbundbauweise


    Contributors:
    May, G.L. (author) / Tanner, C. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 4 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English