Structural reuse offers a promising alternative to traditional composite recycling by keeping the original material intact and enabling it to be used again in new applications. Thermoplastic-reinforced composites, in particular, open the door to innovative… Reverse forming thermoplastic composites
This document supports IEA Wind Task 45: Recycling Wind Turbine Blades, focusing on opportunities to reuse, repurpose, recycle, and recover materials from end-of-life blades. It brings together insights from a dedicated workshop and expert meetings… Recycling wind turbine blades
Circular Composites: A design guide for products containing composite materials in a circular economy Composites are increasingly used to optimize the performance of applications as their properties can be tuned to achieve the desired functionality.… Circular Composites
Circular Composites by Design: Testing a Design Method in Industry The design of composite products for a circular economy is challenging. Materials such as glass-fibre-reinforced plastics have long product lifetimes but are hard to recycle.… Design method testing
Circular Design of Composite Products: A Framework Based on Insights from Literature and Industry Composite materials are an attractive material choice as they enable lightweight, low-maintenance products with a long lifespan. Recycling these materials, however,… Circular design framework
Composite materials offer many advantages during the use phase, but recovery at the end of a lifecycle remains a challenge. Structural reuse, where an end of life product is segmented into construction elements, may be… Structural reuse through segmentation
How to design a composite product to facilitate structural reuse? Structurally reusing parts of end-of-life products as construction elements has been demonstrated on a small scale. We expect that segmenting a large part into smaller,… Structural reuse: design case study
A significant part of wind energy in the Netherlands is generated by offshore wind farms at sea. In the coming decades, the number of wind farms will be scaled up in line with current energy… Offshore wind farm decommissioning
Project Ecobuk aims to demonstrate a Circular Economy for products containing composite materials. Together with partners from industry and knowledge institutes across Europe, we re-design case products from automotive, building and furniture sectors. The progress… Ecobulk progress reports
What if we could add value by repairing a product? We put the idea to test by repairing a broken bowl. Conny Bakker and Marcel den Hollander explored the idea in a series of Value… Value Added Repair