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What metals are used to make cars and why
Cars are quite tricky to design and build – if they weren’t, we’d all be driving around in the wheeled manifestation of our own imaginations. Manufacturers spend years developing and designing the right materials for their cars – but what are they?
Car-makers have to consider a range of factors when designing a car including weight, strength, perceived quality and ease of repair and construction. A car made of the most exotic materials might be incredibly strong and light, but it’ll cost a small fortune to produce. Manufacturers often need to use a mixture of materials in one car to achieve their goals.
With so many different types of materials on offer, however, keeping track of what’s what and why you’d choose it over any other option can be tricky. We’ve put together a simple list of all the materials you’re likely to find in a car and described their uses and strengths.
Car-makers have to consider a range of factors when designing a car including weight, strength, perceived quality and ease of repair and construction. A car made of the most exotic materials might be incredibly strong and light, but it’ll cost a small fortune to produce. Manufacturers often need to use a mixture of materials in one car to achieve their goals.
With so many different types of materials on offer, however, keeping track of what’s what and why you’d choose it over any other option can be tricky. We’ve put together a simple list of all the materials you’re likely to find in a car and described their uses and strengths.
Plastic
Plastic is never going to feel as good quality as a metal alternative but it’s likely to weigh a lot less and be cheaper and faster to produce and paint. Plastic is used on cheaper cars for external body panels like the bumpers, wings and sills. While you might be able to bend the panels with a stiff prod, plastic makes sense as body panel material as it’s light, resilient to impacts and easily replaced if damaged.
Steel
Unquestionably the most common material used in building cars. Steel is strong, easy to work with, cheap and readily available and almost every car will have some steel in it. It can be used for parts like the roof, chassis, wheels, brakes, exhaust and engine. It doesn’t take extremely specialised tools or knowledge to produce, manufacture and repair steel so is the cheapest metal used in car building.
Aluminium
Aluminium is the other common metal used in car manufacture. It’s much lighter and stronger than steel and, unlike its ferrous friend, isn’t susceptible to rust. It is, however, much more expensive and far harder to work with than steel so isn’t commonly used on cheaper cars. Jaguar and Audi are the two main manufacturers associated with aluminium-constructed cars.
Fibreglass
With advanced metals on the one side and carbon fibre on the other, fibreglass has fallen out of popularity in the motoring world. Like carbon fibre it’s made by embedding small strands of glass in a mat then setting it in plastic. The combination of glass’ resilience and plastic’s flexibility means fibreglass is very lightweight, fairly strong and resistant to bending.
Carbon
The fashionable material of choice for the automotive elite. Carbon can be used in numerous ways around a car but the most common is as carbon fibre. Like fibreglass, its small strands of carbon embedded into a fibrous mat and sealed by a plastic or resin. This ranges from mass-produced carbon fibre in the Alfa Romeo 4C’s chassis ‘tub’ to ludicrously-expensive hand-laid carbon fibre used mainly in F1 cars.
Plastic is never going to feel as good quality as a metal alternative but it’s likely to weigh a lot less and be cheaper and faster to produce and paint. Plastic is used on cheaper cars for external body panels like the bumpers, wings and sills. While you might be able to bend the panels with a stiff prod, plastic makes sense as body panel material as it’s light, resilient to impacts and easily replaced if damaged.
Steel
Unquestionably the most common material used in building cars. Steel is strong, easy to work with, cheap and readily available and almost every car will have some steel in it. It can be used for parts like the roof, chassis, wheels, brakes, exhaust and engine. It doesn’t take extremely specialised tools or knowledge to produce, manufacture and repair steel so is the cheapest metal used in car building.
Aluminium
Aluminium is the other common metal used in car manufacture. It’s much lighter and stronger than steel and, unlike its ferrous friend, isn’t susceptible to rust. It is, however, much more expensive and far harder to work with than steel so isn’t commonly used on cheaper cars. Jaguar and Audi are the two main manufacturers associated with aluminium-constructed cars.
Fibreglass
With advanced metals on the one side and carbon fibre on the other, fibreglass has fallen out of popularity in the motoring world. Like carbon fibre it’s made by embedding small strands of glass in a mat then setting it in plastic. The combination of glass’ resilience and plastic’s flexibility means fibreglass is very lightweight, fairly strong and resistant to bending.
Carbon
The fashionable material of choice for the automotive elite. Carbon can be used in numerous ways around a car but the most common is as carbon fibre. Like fibreglass, its small strands of carbon embedded into a fibrous mat and sealed by a plastic or resin. This ranges from mass-produced carbon fibre in the Alfa Romeo 4C’s chassis ‘tub’ to ludicrously-expensive hand-laid carbon fibre used mainly in F1 cars.
أفضل 5 كورسات في تعليم اللغة الانجليزية مجانا للمبتدئين
لو هتبدأ في تعلم اللغة الانجليزية من الصفر فأنت في حاجة الي اختيار مجموعة معينة من الكورسات للاعتماد عليها في بداية المشوار
اللغة الانجليزية هي لغة ضرورية في العديد من الأمور مثل العمل و الدراسة و شئ أساسي للتطوير في مجالك
في هذة المقالة سنعرض 5 كورسات لأفضل الكورسات أونلاين في تعليم اللغة الانجليزية مجانا
أفضل 5 كورسات في تعليم اللغة الانجليزية مجانا للمبتدئين :-
1- أقوي كورس تعليمي للغة الانجليزية
الكورس يضم مجموعة من الملفات PDF; و الملفات الصوتية الخاصة بكل جزء يعتبر الأشهر في تعليم اللغة الانجليزية أونلاين
مقدم الكورس الرائع A.J Hoge دكتور للغة الانجليزية ,والمدرس رقم واحد فى العالم لاكتساب الانجليزى
مقدم الكورس الرائع A.J Hoge دكتور للغة الانجليزية ,والمدرس رقم واحد فى العالم لاكتساب الانجليزى
دروسة منتشره فى اكثرمن 25 دولة و تعلم اللغة تحت يده اكتر من 700,000 من كل دول العالم و اصبحو من المتحدثين بطلاقة للغة الانجليزية
2- كورس تعلم اللغة الانجليزية الرائع VOA
الكورس
مكون من 40 فديو تعليمي و هو عبارة عن محادثات بين شخصين و الأفضل خاصة
للمبتدئين ان في كل محادثة يتم ترجمة المحادثة للعربية و اعادتها مرات
عديدة حتي تستطيع اتقان المحادثة بنفسك
3- كورس محادثة في تعليم اللغة الانجليزية
الكورس مكون من مجموعة كبيرة من المحادثات في ملف خاص PDF; و مع الملف الكوري يحتوي علي ثلاث أجزاء ملفات صوتية للملف المكتوب
الكورس عبارة عن محادثة بين شخصين للمواقف اليومية
الكورس عبارة عن محادثة بين شخصين للمواقف اليومية
4- أفوي كورس انجليزي لتعلم النطق
الكورس
مكون من 6 أجزاء و يعتبر من أفضل الكورسات لأنه يعتمد علي تجمويع مجموعة
من الفديوهات التعليمة الأونلاين لتعليم النطق و بعد الانتهاء من الكورس
ستكون متمكن من التحدث بسهولة
5- و اخيرا في حالة اهتمامك بالكورسات تعليم اللغة الانجليزية علي اليوتيوب