Jamon, my favorite ham in the world.

Jamon, my favorite ham in the world.

Jamon is my favorite traditional food in Spain when I visited there at March, 2013.

I ate it in really fresh status with red wine and sangria. Jamon is very similar to the Italian prosciutto, which is easily get in United Stated. However, Jamon is cured longer than prosciutto. It cured the period of 12 to 18 months. I like Jamon’s taste better than Prosciutto because it has deep sense of taste and good quality of uncooked ham.

Icerocket specialized in blog searches. This website also activated with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. It’s very simple to use. Users find blogs with their finding key words what they want. It also submit personal blog.

http://www.icerocket.com/

A Kid at Heart, blog post about Spain food to try in Madrid.

Found from Icerocket(Social listening tool).

This blog is introduced about special foods in Madrid. Not only this blog shows what is exactly jamon with simple explanations, but also shows other foods that can being compared with jamon.

http://anitalucius.blogspot.com/2014/06/spain-food-to-try-in-madrid.html

Thru-e-rain, personal blog post about visiting El Bouqueria market.

Found from Icerocket (Social listening tool).

The bloger posted their journey in El Bouqueria market, Spain. They ate diverse delicious foods and they really try to get inexpensive jamon in order to they want to feasted on. Perhaps they experienced many kinds of jamon in market space.

http://thru-e-rain.livejournal.com/

RECENT PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE MARKETS

AUTOMOTIVE MATERIALS

RECENT PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE MARKETS

Introduction

          The automotive industry is gradually developed with using a lot of diverse materials. Especially, the plastic was ready to play a major role in current automotive industry. The real plastics revolution in automotive industry started in 1950 when thermoplastics were made, opening with ABS and going on to polyamide and polycarbonate.The ongoing development of advanced, high-quality polymers has greatly increased their usage. Originally plastics were specified because they provided great mechanical properties mixed with excellent display, including the possibility of self-coloring. The application of plastic components in the automotive industry has been increasing over the last decades. Recently, the plastics are used mainly to make vehicles more energy efficient by light weight, together with providing durability, corrosion resistance, toughness, design flexibility, resiliency and high performance at low cost.

Plastics in automobiles

The average vehicle uses about 150 kg of plastics and plastic composites versus 1163 kg of iron, steel and aluminum – currently it is moving around 15-20 % of total weight of the vehicle.

Increasing usage of plastics in automobiles.

Combination of aluminum (light sky blue color), magnesium (red color), plastics (dark blue color) and steel (green color)

         During the huge growth of plastics in automobiles, it has changed  the advantages of using plastics. Mounting costs are being met by the ability of plastics to be molded into components of complex geometries, often replacing several parts in other materials, and providing integral fitments that all add up to easier assembly. Many types of plastics are used in more than thousand different parts of all shapes and sizes. A quick look inside any model of the vehicle shows that plastics are now used in exterior and interior components such as bumpers, doors, safety, frame and windows, headlight and side mirror housing, trunk lids, hoods, grilles and wheel covers.

         Although up to 13 different plastics were used in a vehicle model just three types of plastics make up some 66 % of the total plastics used in a vehicle: polypropylene (32%), polyurethane (17%) and PVC (16%).

Here is the link what is the polypropylene, polyurethane and PVC.
http://www.b-plastic.com/Plastic/en/container/54/162/,91,160,162/3

American Chemistry Council (ACC) Sponsor

American Chemistry Council (ACC) Sponsor.  

2014 Fall Senior Automotive Design Studio.







Plastic Automotive Applications.
   ACC introduced the sort of automotive plastics which is made plastic cars in the future. I'm going to participate this sponsor project in this 2014 fall semester. Plastic Automotive ApplicationsPlastics is potential materials for a lot of beneficial reasons. Especially, safety and lightweight of cars are key factor of them.

Our project theme is explained following contests.
 o   Teams will consist of one interior and one exterior Senior CCS Automotive Design             Student.
 o   Students own a ride share/autonomous transportation company in the year        2028.
 o   Students must design their fleet to differentiate their company in the marketplace.
 o   Students must highlight what makes their fleet design better than competitors.

 o   The designs will portray benefits of plastics and polymer composites and will be               displayed on social media platforms to demonstrate these benefits.

The key factor of Automotive Plastics.

SafetyIn automotive design, plastics have contributed to a multitude of innovations in safety, performance and fuel efficiency. Made from durable strands of polyester fiber, seat belts alone have reportedly helped to save 11,000 lives each year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Airbags, commonly made from high-strength nylon fabric, can reduce the risk of dying in a direct, frontal car crash by about 30 percent, according to NHTSA statistics. And child safety seats made possible by numerous advancements in polymer science help to protect our kids at every turn.

LightweightingAnother priority in automotive design is weight reduction, a key driver in boosting fuel efficiency, reducing emissions and lowering costs for motorists. Many plastic components can weigh 50 percent less than similar components made from other materials. That’s one reason why today’s average light vehicle contains 332 pounds of plastics and composites, 8.3 percent by weight.