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Validation Of A Secondary Fabric Supplier And Characterization Of Alternate Cores For Use In The Aptera 2e Sandwich Core Composite, Bryan Rogers
Materials Engineering
Polymer matrix composites’ high strength to weight ratio has made them an ideal material choice for use in lightweight transportation vehicles. Aptera Motors, a company based out of Oceanside, CA, is currently developing a next-generation high efficiency passenger vehicle called the Aptera 2e. The 2e’s body is composed of a sandwich core composite containing laminates of E-glass fibers embedded within an epoxy matrix sandwiched between a polyester hexagonal core. This project looked to validate a secondary fabric supplier for use in Aptera’s composite and characterize the core shear properties of two alternate core materials for future iterations of Aptera’s vehicle. …