Golam Newaz

has released an Executive Summary of his research project "Ultra-Lightweight Sandwich Composite Constructions for Auto body Applications." The research is a part of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences' (NCMS) Lightweight Automotive Materials Program (LAMP). The multi-year LAMP program seeks to drive innovation in advanced lightweight materials development for the automotive industry.

Newaz and Wayne State University partnered with MAG-IAS, LLC.; Nimbis Services, Inc.; the U.S. Department of Energy; and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences on the research project. The project looks to develop strategies for sandwich composite construction technologies for significant weight reduction for automotive applications and to develop computationally efficient models to predict the behavior of sandwich composites using model-based brokerage portals.

Read the Executive Summary here.