Faculty of Engineering

Advanced Lightweight Construction

Designing structural parts with lightweight design

Summary
• Due to limitation of material and sustainably approaches application of lightweight design is
very important

• Main drivers for lightweight design are ecological and economic topics

• Lightweight strategies help to transfer the requirements into aims

• Form lightweight design will focus on designing single parts in assemblies, modules or
systems

• By taking into account the “golden rules” the topic of lightweight design can be realized in a
very high circumstance

• Approaches from nature transferred for designing structural parts pushed the lightweight
potential during the last years in a very successful way → structural optimization

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 Faculty of Engineering
Advanced Lightweight Construction

Designing structural parts with lightweight design

Comprehensive questions
1. Most of lightweight approaches are developed or realized in transportation industry. Why?

2. What is understood by lightweight design?

3. Note 3 of the main requirements to perform a „good“ lightweight construction?

4. How is it possible, that rips of corrugations increase the part stiffness?

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