Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
structural performance, added acoustic comfort and improved production
processes, supporting it to manage increasing challenges of safety, CO2
emissions and fuel efficiency. Two representative product solutions,
SikaReinforcer® and SikaPower®, are analyzed, as well as the gains from
their enabling light-weight design of vehicles. Aside from other benefits
(e.g. increasing passenger safety, simplifying the manufacturing process), it
is shown that Sika’s solutions higher carbon footprint is largely
compensated by gains during the use phase, namely in terms of fuel
consumption and carbon emissions, just by allowing light-weight solutions.
Keywords
References
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU). (2003). Energy savings by light-weighting, Final Report. 2003. Retrieved from http://www.world-aluminium.org/cache/fl0000125.pdf
Gies, S. (27 May 2009). Research Needs & Future Trends in Lightweight Design. Presented at Innovative Developments for Lightweight Vehicle Structures Conference, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Koffler, C.; Rohde-Brandenburger, K. (2010). On the calculation of fuel savings through lightweight design in automotive life cycle assessments. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 15, 128–135. Doi:10.1007/s11367-009-0127-z
Stephan, H. (2007). Bewertungsmethodik für Fertigungsverfahren im Karosseriebau aus Sicht des betrieblichen Umweltschutzes. Hrsg. Verein zur Förderung des Instituts WAR -Wasserversorgung und Grundwasserschutz,
Abwassertechnik, Abfalltechnik, Industrielle Stoffkreisläufe, Umwelt- und Raumplanung- der Technische Universität Darmstadt e.V. (PhD Thesis, only in German).