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Fibre reinforced lightweight materials in structural automotive components are limited to niche sectors like luxury and sports applications due to high costs. Mixed material designs offer weight-savings which result in enhanced performances and less fuel consumptions. Reduced manufacturing costs for fibre reinforced car components and the design of hybrid material car concepts enable to go downmarket with new products. A great challenge is to enhance quick and reliable joining technologies for structural mixed material products, especialliy for high performances in the aviation or in the automotive sector…read more