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Suzhou Heaten Machinery Industry Co., Ltd.

Founded in 2012, Suzhou Heaten is a professional metal mold design & fabrication supplier and precision part manufacturer. Heaten’s products are widely used in automotive, consumer electronics, medical and others. We focus on deep drawing, precision metal mold design and product manufacturing.

Suzhou Heaten Machinery Industry Co.,Ltd. is China Custom Automotive Air Suspension Manufacturers and Automotive Air Suspension Company. We have rich experience in stainless steel, aluminum, copper, iron and other materials. Our equipment includes: 30 sets of stamping precision processing equipment (110T-1000T punch press), 20 sets of mold manufacturing equipment (wire cutting machine, processing center, water mill, precision grinding, etc.) and inspection and testing equipment (hexcon coordinate, 2.5 dimensional, salt spray testing machine, etc.).

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What materials are commonly used to make suspended aerial structural components of automobiles? How do these materials affect automobile performance and safety?

Suspension aerial structural components of automobiles (such as brackets, booms, bridges, etc.) need to find a balance between strength, rigidity, durability, weight and cost. Here are several materials commonly used to make these components and their impact on automobile performance and safety:

1. Steel

Features: Steel is one of the most commonly used automotive structural materials, with high strength and toughness. Common ones are carbon steel and alloy steel.

Impact:

Performance: The high strength of steel ensures that the components can withstand large loads and impacts, especially in collisions or road unevenness, providing reliable support and protection.

Safety: The excellent deformation and impact resistance of steel is crucial to automobile safety, especially when it is used as a load-bearing component in the body structure, it can effectively absorb impact force and reduce injuries to passengers in accidents.

Disadvantages: Steel has a high density and heavy weight, which may affect the fuel efficiency and handling performance of the car.

2. Aluminum Alloys
Features: Aluminum alloys are widely used in the automotive industry because of their light weight, good corrosion resistance and appropriate strength.
Impact:
Performance: Aluminum alloys have a lower density, which reduces the total weight of the vehicle body and helps improve the fuel efficiency of the vehicle, especially for the range of electric vehicles.
Safety: Although aluminum alloys are lighter, they still provide sufficient strength to ensure the performance of components, but their collision resistance is not as good as steel, and suitable design and reinforcement structure are usually required to compensate for this.
Advantages: Improve fuel economy, reduce weight, improve handling, especially for electric vehicles and high-performance vehicles.

3. Magnesium Alloys
Features: Magnesium alloys are one of the lightest metals currently available, with very low density, and are often used to reduce the weight of vehicles.
Impact:
Performance: The lightweight characteristics of magnesium alloys reduce the total weight of the vehicle body, thereby improving the fuel efficiency and dynamic performance of the vehicle. It also has good vibration resistance.
Safety: Magnesium alloys are relatively soft and easily affected by impact forces, and may not perform as well as steel or aluminum alloys in a collision. Therefore, magnesium alloys are usually used for non-load-bearing structural parts or parts with special strengthening designs.
Advantages: Reduce weight and optimize the overall performance of the vehicle.

4. High-strength Plastics & Composites
Features: These materials are usually made of a combination of carbon fiber, glass fiber and resin, and have a high strength-to-weight ratio.
Impact:
Performance: High-strength plastics and composites are very light and can effectively reduce the overall weight of the car, especially for some interior parts and non-load-bearing structural parts. These materials help improve the dynamic performance and fuel economy of the car.
Safety: Composite materials usually have high corrosion resistance, strong weather resistance, and good fatigue resistance, which helps to extend the service life of the parts. However, they have poor energy absorption capacity in collisions and need to be combined with other materials such as metals to enhance overall safety.
Advantages: Weight reduction, corrosion resistance, long service life, suitable for some parts with high lightweight requirements.

5. Titanium Alloys
Features: Titanium alloys have a very high strength-to-weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance, but the cost is high.
Impact:
Performance: Titanium alloy's high strength and lightweight properties make it the first choice for suspension system components in some high-end performance cars and racing cars. It helps improve dynamic performance, especially under high load and high speed conditions.
Safety: Titanium alloy has extremely high impact and fatigue resistance, can provide good protection in collisions, and is especially suitable for components that require high performance and high reliability.
Disadvantages: High cost makes the application of titanium alloy relatively limited, mainly used in high-performance or professional fields.

6. Composite materials (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers, CFRP)
Features: Carbon fiber composite materials are known for their ultra-high strength-to-weight ratio and are widely used in racing cars and high-end sports cars.
Impact:
Performance: CFRP's lightweight and strength properties can greatly reduce the weight of components while providing excellent strength and rigidity. This plays an important role in improving the acceleration, handling and fuel efficiency of the vehicle.
Safety: Although CFRP is very strong, it is brittle and easy to break under impact. Therefore, it is usually combined with metal materials to ensure overall safety.
Advantages: Improve vehicle performance, especially suitable for racing cars, sports cars and high-end vehicles.

Impact summary:
Weight: The density of the material directly affects the total weight of the car. Lighter materials (such as aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, carbon fiber, etc.) help reduce vehicle weight and improve fuel efficiency, especially for electric vehicles.
Strength and safety: High-strength materials such as steel and titanium alloy can provide better protection in collisions and reduce the risk of injury in car accidents, while aluminum alloy and composite materials need to make up for the lack of collision performance through design optimization.
Durability and corrosion: Some materials (such as aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, composite materials) have outstanding corrosion resistance, which helps to extend the service life of automotive parts and reduce maintenance needs.