Overview of automotive structural composites technology developments in Japan

The recent status of Japan's government-driven project to establish carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTP) technology for automotive applications conducted in the National Composites Center (NCC) Japan is introduced first. The baseline technology is discontinuous carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (C-LFT-D: carbon – long fiber thermoplastic-direct) using press compaction. All the components of the target car...