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TECH FOCUS:
MATEriAlS
potential in the medical industry.
As the automotive industry
transitions to electric vehicles,
weight reduction enabling
improved vehicle range will
become a very important
consideration. Implementing
magnesium alloy castings in the
electric vehicle can help realize
weight reductions of 25-50%
through use in structural, as well
as electric vehicle-specific,
applications. Biocompatible
magnesium screws and implants
have seen official approval in over
seventy countries worldwide for
use in orthopedic applications
and hold a very promising future
for widespread use.
What were some of the gamechanger
moments in
magnesium use, going back to
the beginning of self-propelled
vehicles?
Over its history, magnesium has
been used extensively in both
automotive and aerospace
applications. In the past 100
years,
magnesium has been used in the automobile in
engine and transmission castings and wheels, and in
the airplane in crankcases, housings, fuel tanks, ribs,
struts, and fuselage applications. More recently, the
most widely used magnesium application is the crosscar
beam, first developed for the automobile in the
early 1990s. Nearly every vehicle manufacturer has
produced a vehicle with a high-pressure die-cast
magnesium cross-car beam since.
What is your involvement with SAE and with WCX?
Personally and professionally, I am highly invested in
the magnesium industry. I noted a few years ago that
there was no magnesium-specific session at WCX, as
there had been several years ago. And so I decided to
see how I could get involved. This involvement led to
leading and organizing the magnesium technology
session. As co-organizer for the M109 session, I help
solicit potential speakers, review abstracts and
submitted manuscripts, communicate with authors
and SAE staff, set the session schedule, and enable an
efficient and thought-provoking in-person set of talks.
As session co-chair, I am motivated to help promote
Magnesium die-cast beltline
reinforcement found in the Corvette Stingray.
UPDATE
any new developments in the magnesium industry of
interest to automotive engineers. In the past couple
years, we have had several excellent submissions
demonstrating novel applications of magnesium in
the automotive industry. I have been involved in the
SAE WCX event since the early 2000s, first as a coauthor
and attendee and, more recently, as a
panelist and co-organizer of several different
sessions in the Materials and Lightweighting
theme as part of the SAE Metallic
Materials Committee, which
is part of the Materials
Engineering Activity.n
April 2023
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Meridian Lightweight
Technologies

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