Special issue: Design and manufacturing of automotive structures using composite materials

International Journal of Vehicle Design 44(3/4) 2007 is a special issue: Design and manufacturing of automotive structures using composite materials.

Article titles:
* The future use of structural composite materials in the automotive industry
* Advanced composites for the body and chassis of a production high performance car
* Design and certification of a composite thin-walled structure for energy absorption
* Crash behaviour of a carbon fibre floor panel
* Experimental study of impact on SMC composites used in the automotive industry
* Development of recyclable self-reinforced polypropylene parts for automotive applications
* A new design approach to the use of composite materials for heavy transport vehicles
* Dynamic modelling of composite acoustic boxes for automotive applications
* Fabrication, testing and thermal analysis of metal matrix composite brake drum
* Design of a tuned sandwich chassis for competition go-kart
* Design of a lightweight chassis for the land speed record vehicle Buckeye Bullet 2