Improving design for recycling - Application to composites

Nicolas Perry (1) , Alain Bernard (2) , Florent Laroche (2) , Stéphane Pompidou (1)

1 I2M - Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux
2 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes

The use of composite material increases. End of life regulations, material consumption reductions or restrictions, ask engineers about their potential use. Innovative recycling solutions arise that recover efficiently carbon fibres. This paper explores the design for composites recycling issue. Recycler becomes a new knowledge expert for the designer. It is necessary to analyze their information shares and exchanges. The recycler is an end of life facilitator. He is also the second life material user and can ask for material evolutions. The collaboration must be improved using knowledge performance indicators. These discussions will be enlightened by examples from carbon recycling experiments.

Mots clés: Design method; Recycling; Composite

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Nicolas Perry, Alain Bernard, Florent Laroche, Stéphane Pompidou. Improving design for recycling - Application to composites. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 2012, online publication. ⟨10.1016/j.cirp.2012.03.081⟩. ⟨hal-00688004⟩