“I highly recommend Andrew and Mayflower Consulting in providing business development, customer discovery, and deep knowledge in lightweighting, automotive, aluminum casting and lightweight materials and metals. He is particularly effective in customer relations and communications. We worked with Andrew since nearly the start of NanoAl LLC to the time company relocated to another city, following an acquisition. Andrew was a big part of the company's success. It was always a great pleasure and fun to working with him. If you are looking for a highly effective resource for your business development effort, Andrew is your guy!”
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Confidence Report on Heavy Truck Light-Weighting
North American Council on Freight Efficiency
This report highlights the benefits of light-weighting in the Class 8 over the road truck market in terms of freight and fuel efficiency. There are many lightweight component options already on the market with more innovations in development. There are many challenges and through collaboration, we'll overcome these hurdles to improve truck efficiency. Primary authors are Andrew Halonen, Mike Roeth and Rob Swim. Editors are Tessa Lee and Denise Rondini.
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Development and Testing of Lightweight Aluminum Composite Brake for Medium to Heavy Duty Vehicles
SAE Technical Paper
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The objective of this paper is to highlight the design, analysis, testing, and application engineering performed to develop a lightweight brake drum made of aluminum metal matrix composite (MMC). Current cast iron brake drums are “design-limited” in the sense that new designs do not significantly change performance and they offer minimal weights savings. This paper will begin with the design of the drum with respect to SAE requirements, and then show how the drum was optimized…Abstract:
The objective of this paper is to highlight the design, analysis, testing, and application engineering performed to develop a lightweight brake drum made of aluminum metal matrix composite (MMC). Current cast iron brake drums are “design-limited” in the sense that new designs do not significantly change performance and they offer minimal weights savings. This paper will begin with the design of the drum with respect to SAE requirements, and then show how the drum was optimized using finite element analysis (FEA). FEA was used to predict maximum drum temperatures and stress levels reached during various braking events. There were a number of design iterations that led to the current design that has been extensively tested on the dynamometer and on a vehicle. In addition to test performance, the casting and infiltration challenges led to significant design changes. Finally, this paper will present dynamometer and vehicle test data with direct comparisons to cast iron drums, especially related to the concerns with fade, torque and temperature. The engineering effort, coupled with the testing success, demonstrate that this lightweight brake drum product brings a significant weight reduction benefit while fulfilling market drivers - stopping distances, emission reductions, rising fuel prices, and growing weight of military vehicles. Prior attempts to make heavy truck drums involved making the drums of 100% MMC reinforcement, and were unsuccessful. The selective MMC reinforcement method is used here, and has demonstrated a new level of success.
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Patents
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Method of manufacturing a metal matrix composite
Issued US 8016018
Method of manufacturing a metal matrix composite (MMC) using a multi-screw extruder.
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Metal Matrix Composite
Issued US 9,145,938
Method of manufacturing metal matrix composites (MMC's). Assignee is Gunite Corporation.
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