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Functional integration and lightweight design are important tasks especially for modern electric vehicles. Development of multi-functional assemblies for the battery box of the future is one of the challenges in the field of electric mobility. The housing must perform many tasks: structural stiffening and sealing (waterproofness) as well as crash protection and thermal management for the batteries.
In this paper results from a new developed multi-functional assembly of a SMC-aluminum battery tray will be presented and discussed. The outer housing shell is SMC formed and joined at the same time with the aluminum foam component. Furthermore, passive thermal management functions are integrated into the sandwich core realized with switchable air-cooling and phase-change-material integrated into the foam. Additionally, sensors for structural health monitoring, temperature and humidity sensors are integrated. The battery frame is designed to withstand impacting parts (vehicle parts, bollard, pole, stones, etc.), in the event of a crash using a sandwich structure with an aluminum foam core, one aluminum and one FRP cover sheet.
| Speaker Country | Germany or Sweden |
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