Book of Abstracts. Symposium Lightweight Design in Product Development: Zurich, 14.06. – 15.06.2018

Abstract

The symposium Lightweight Design in Product Development (LWD-PD18) was held June 14th – 15th 2018 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Today more than ever, economic growth, prosperity and mobility need to be balanced with the limited availability of natural resources and energy reserves. In this context, lightweight systems play a central role by the realization of sustainable products and components, minimizing material and energy consumption over the entire design life. The design space available to engineers is continuously expanded by novel material systems and fabrication technologies entering the market. At the same time, novel multidisciplinary design tools, methods and approaches, new data and information technologies are revolutionizing products and the way they are designed and fabricated. The symposium thus selectively addressed and discussed actual topics along the entire value chain from material to design and fabrication, sharing research achievements at the leading edge of research and application and discussing and exchanging ideas on future trends.