Lightweighting is becoming more and more important in automotive design, driven by both the weight of batteries in EV’s and its fuel-saving effects in traditional vehicles. Through lightweighting a vehicle can expend less energy to extend the range while maintaining the structure performance. To achieve lightweighting, manufacturers are optimizing the car body through new engineered solutions that both optimize design and cost effectivity and sustainability.
Enabling Lightweight Design
Henkel Teroson EP High-Performance Structural Insert
Henkel’s Teroson EP high-performance structural inserts can help car manufacturers not only to improve performance and safety but also enable the designer to potentially downgauge the thickness of sheet metals and reduce the number of parts for lightweighting. The Henkel Teroson EP structural insert is a high-performance three-dimensional engineered hybrid part that consists of two main components, the “carrier” and the “structural foam”, that are manufactured through injection molding process into the final parts. By utilizing the cavity in the car body, Henkel’s structural inserts achieve better distribution of load path, increased body stiffness, rigidity, and enhanced durability.