Remanufacturing of woven carbon fibre fabric production waste into high performance aligned discontinuous fibre composites

Parthasarathi Aravindan; Federico Becagli; Marco L Longana; Lourens G Blok; Thomas  Pozegic; Samantha J Huntley; Thomas C S Rendall; Ian Hamerton

doi:10.3390/jcs4020068

Remanufacturing of woven carbon fibre fabric production waste into high performance aligned discontinuous fibre composites

Parthasarathi Aravindan
, Federico Becagli
, Marco L Longana^*
, Lourens G Blok
, Thomas Pozegic
, Samantha J Huntley
, Thomas C S Rendall
, Ian Hamerton

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The composites industry generates considerable volumes of waste in a wide variety of forms, from the production of by-products to end-of-life parts. This paper focuses on the remanufacturing of dry fibre off-cuts, produced during the composite fabric weaving process, into highly aligned discontinuous fibre prepreg tapes with High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) technology. Unidirectional laminate specimens are prepared using various combinations of fibre lengths and tested in tension, obtaining a stiffness of 80 GPa, a strength of 800 MPa, and a failure strain of 1%. Several applications are envisaged for the produced tape: adhesive film, feedstock for filament winding, and tow for weaved fabrics. This work demonstrates the possibility to extract value from what is currently considered manufacturing waste.

Original language	English
Article number	68
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Composites Science
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs4020068
Publication status	Published - 6 Jun 2020

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Recycling
aligned discontinuous fibre composites
Waste management
Sustainability

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