期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：744
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：The cost and comfort pressure make the automotive giants to strive for more and this requires continualinnovation. The polymers are finding their way deep inside most of the applications primarily because of low weightand relatively better application properties. The average global plastic penetration is 120kg/vehicle and average Indianplastic penetration is 60 kg/ vehicle. A wide variety of polymers are used in vehicles. Polyurethane and polypropylenedominate for automotive components, with over 1 billion pounds used for this purpose in 2000. The upward turn in theplastic penetration is because of development of new polymers for automotive applications while the tighter regulationsand environmental concerns have brought recycling in to focus. Approximately 82 per cent of an average vehicle’sweight gets recycled. The materials obtained from recycling give birth to the new parts, jobs to million andenvironment friendly surrounding to live in. The focus of present study is to give comprehensive review of polymericfoams and their applications in the area of automotive comfort and safety.
