SPH simulation for short fibre recycling using water jet alignment

Samantha J  Huntley; Thomas C S Rendall; Marco L Longana; Thomas  Pozegic; Kevin D Potter; Ian Hamerton

doi:10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227

SPH simulation for short fibre recycling using water jet alignment

Samantha J Huntley, Thomas C S Rendall^*, Marco L Longana, Thomas Pozegic, Kevin D Potter, Ian Hamerton

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

39 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

This work presents a computational model for a discontinuous fibre composite manufacturing process. The alignment mechanism of this novel process, called the High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) method, involves highly coupled fluid-structure interactions. Fibres with a length on the order of a few millimetres are placed in a water suspension, sprayed between two parallel plates and deposited on a moving belt to make an aligned discontinuous fibre tape. This technology can be used as part of a composites recycling process to remanufacture reclaimed fibres into valuable recycled composite feedstock by ensuring a high level of alignment. This work aims to model the alignment mechanism using smoothed particle hydrodynamics in order to inform the design of the industrial machine. The results reveal the influence of jet angle and fibre
length on the overall quality of fibre alignment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	129-142
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Volume	35
Issue number	1-2
Early online date	25 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Feb 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/P027393/1].

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

composites
SPH
recycling
short fibres
alignment

Access to Document

10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227

Full-text PDF (author accepted manuscript)
This is the author accepted manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Taylor and Francis at https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227. Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Accepted author manuscript, 7.13 MB

Handle.net

Persistent link

Cite this

@article{8b69f5a75a5445839c957c279c6bd311,

title = "SPH simulation for short fibre recycling using water jet alignment",

abstract = "This work presents a computational model for a discontinuous fibre composite manufacturing process. The alignment mechanism of this novel process, called the High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) method, involves highly coupled fluid-structure interactions. Fibres with a length on the order of a few millimetres are placed in a water suspension, sprayed between two parallel plates and deposited on a moving belt to make an aligned discontinuous fibre tape. This technology can be used as part of a composites recycling process to remanufacture reclaimed fibres into valuable recycled composite feedstock by ensuring a high level of alignment. This work aims to model the alignment mechanism using smoothed particle hydrodynamics in order to inform the design of the industrial machine. The results reveal the influence of jet angle and fibrelength on the overall quality of fibre alignment.",

keywords = "composites, SPH, recycling, short fibres, alignment",

author = "Huntley, {Samantha J} and Rendall, {Thomas C S} and Longana, {Marco L} and Thomas Pozegic and Potter, {Kevin D} and Ian Hamerton",

note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/P027393/1]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",

year = "2021",

month = feb,

day = "25",

doi = "10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227",

language = "English",

volume = "35",

pages = "129--142",

journal = "International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics",

issn = "1061-8562",

publisher = "Taylor & Francis Group",

number = "1-2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - SPH simulation for short fibre recycling using water jet alignment

AU - Huntley, Samantha J

AU - Rendall, Thomas C S

AU - Longana, Marco L

AU - Pozegic, Thomas

AU - Potter, Kevin D

AU - Hamerton, Ian

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/P027393/1]. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2021/2/25

Y1 - 2021/2/25

N2 - This work presents a computational model for a discontinuous fibre composite manufacturing process. The alignment mechanism of this novel process, called the High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) method, involves highly coupled fluid-structure interactions. Fibres with a length on the order of a few millimetres are placed in a water suspension, sprayed between two parallel plates and deposited on a moving belt to make an aligned discontinuous fibre tape. This technology can be used as part of a composites recycling process to remanufacture reclaimed fibres into valuable recycled composite feedstock by ensuring a high level of alignment. This work aims to model the alignment mechanism using smoothed particle hydrodynamics in order to inform the design of the industrial machine. The results reveal the influence of jet angle and fibrelength on the overall quality of fibre alignment.

AB - This work presents a computational model for a discontinuous fibre composite manufacturing process. The alignment mechanism of this novel process, called the High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) method, involves highly coupled fluid-structure interactions. Fibres with a length on the order of a few millimetres are placed in a water suspension, sprayed between two parallel plates and deposited on a moving belt to make an aligned discontinuous fibre tape. This technology can be used as part of a composites recycling process to remanufacture reclaimed fibres into valuable recycled composite feedstock by ensuring a high level of alignment. This work aims to model the alignment mechanism using smoothed particle hydrodynamics in order to inform the design of the industrial machine. The results reveal the influence of jet angle and fibrelength on the overall quality of fibre alignment.

KW - composites

KW - SPH

KW - recycling

KW - short fibres

KW - alignment

U2 - 10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227

DO - 10.1080/10618562.2021.1876227

M3 - Article (Academic Journal)

SN - 1061-8562

VL - 35

SP - 129

EP - 142

JO - International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

JF - International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

IS - 1-2

ER -

SPH simulation for short fibre recycling using water jet alignment

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Handle.net

Fingerprint

Cite this