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Eco-material Selection for Auto Bodies

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Over the last decades, most automakers have started to include lightweight materials in their vehicles to meet stringent environmental regulations and to improve fuel efficiency of their vehicles. As a result, eco-material selection for vehicles emerged as a new discipline under design for environment.

This chapter will summarize methods of eco-material selections for automotive applications with an emphasis on auto bodies. A set of metrics for eco-material selection that takes into account all economic, environmental, and societal factors will be developed using numerical and qualitative methods. These metrics cover products’ environmental impact, functionality, and manufacturability, in addition to economic and societal factors.

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  1. Strategic Energy Analysis Center (SEAC), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

    Ahmad T. Mayyas

  2. Department of Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Mohammed Omar

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

    Mohammed T. Hayajneh

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  1. Instituto de Ingeniería Civil Facultad de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico

    Leticia Myriam Torres Martínez

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico

    Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova

  3. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico

    Boris Ildusovich Kharisov

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Mayyas, A.T., Omar, M., Hayajneh, M.T. (2019). Eco-material Selection for Auto Bodies. In: Martínez, L., Kharissova, O., Kharisov, B. (eds) Handbook of Ecomaterials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68255-6_116

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