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 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
Much of the value of composites is in their composition; attempts to separate the fibres from the resin have so far only resulted in low grade materials. This outdoor furniture preserves the material’s structural value… Blade table
This bench preserves the composite material’s structural value by cutting panels directly from a used wind turbine blade. The slotted bench was made to explore the concept of structural reuse: reuse of structural material rather… Slotted Bench
Can cascading extend the material lifetime of large composite products, for example wind turbine blades? Wind turbines are designed for a service life of 20 to 25 years after which they are decommissioned. At end… Cascading composites
Circular Design of Composite Products: A Preliminary Framework Based on Insights from Literature and Industry Joustra, Jelle; Flipsen, Bas; Balkenende, Ruud Paper presented at PLATE conference 2019, Berlin. Composite materials are an attractive material choice… Design Framework