RT Journal Article
T1 Towards Sustainable Composite Manufacturing with Recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
A1 Palola, Sarianna
A1 Laurikainen, Pekka
A1 García-Arrieta, Sonia
A1 Goikuria Astorkia, Egoitz
A1 Sarlin, Essi
AB Currently, the vast majority of composite waste is either landfilled or incinerated, causing a massive burden on the environment and resulting in the loss of potentially valuable raw material. Here, conventional pyrolysis and reactive pyrolysis were used to reclaim carbon fibers from aeronautical scrap material, and to evaluate the feasibility of using reclaimed carbon fibers in structural components for the automotive sector. The need for fiber sizing was investigated as well as the behavior of the fiber material in macroscopic impact testing. The fibers were characterized with the single fiber tensile test, scanning electron microscopy, and the microbond test. Critical fiber length was estimated in both polypropylene and polyamide matrices. Tensile strength of the fiber material was better preserved with the reactive pyrolysis compared to the conventional pyrolysis, but in both cases the interfacial shear strength was retained or even improved. The impact testing revealed that the components made of these fibers fulfilled all required deformation limits set for the components with virgin fibers. These results indicate that recycled carbon fibers can be a viable option even in structural components, resulting in lower production costs and greener composites
SN 2073-4360
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-01
LA eng
NO Palola , S , Laurikainen , P , García-Arrieta , S , Goikuria Astorkia , E & Sarlin , E 2022 , ' Towards Sustainable Composite Manufacturing with Recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites ' , Polymers , vol. 14 , no. 6 , 1098 , pp. 1098 . https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14061098
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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