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