TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Strittmatter, Joachim A1 - Gümpel, Paul A1 - Lattner, Oskar T1 - Potential capabilities of shape memory driven automotive devices T2 - CONAT 2016 International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering, 26.-29. October, Brasov, Rumania N2 - In the automotive industry a strong effort has been undertaken to reduce the weight of modern vehicles. In order to reduce the energy consumption and to improve the environmental sustainability, the importance of weight reduction activities is even growing faster. As lightweight designing is becoming more and more expensive and show less potential savings, new approaches are needed. One promising technology could be the use of shape memory elements. In the last years a lot of potential application possibilities were presented, demonstrating the benefit of these functional elements in automotive design solutions: they often reduce complexity, weight and design space of an actuation device and enable new functions. In addition they work silently and are therefore ideally suitable for comfort applications in the passenger cabin. Because of the current trend to electric vehicle the hitherto existing drawback of a high electrical energy consumption of shape memory actuators in some design proposals is not given any more. KW - Shape memory alloys KW - Actuators KW - Weight reduction Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-45446-7 SB - 978-3-319-45446-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45447-4_59 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45447-4_59 SP - 536 EP - 546 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -