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Recycling of Thermoset Materials and Thermoset-Based Composites: Challenge and Opportunity

2022

Thermoset materials and their composites are characterized by a long life cycle with their main applications in aircrafts, wind turbines and constructions as insulating materials. Considering the importance of recovery and valorization of these materials at their end-of-life, avoiding landfilling, the interest concerning their recycling grows continuously. The thermoset materials and their composites, to be successfully recovered and valorized, must degrade their three-dimensional structures and recover the mono-oligomers and/or fillers. The thermoset materials could successfully degrade through thermal treatment at different temperatures (for example, above 1000 °C for incineration, ca. 50…

Recycling ground tire rubber (GTR) scraps as high-impact filler of in-situ produced polyketone matrix

2014

Performances Recovery of Flax Fiber Reinforced Composites after Salt-Fog Aging Test

2022

In the present paper, the performance recovery under conditions of discontinuous exposure to a marine environment of a natural fiber-reinforced composite (NFRC) reinforced by flax fibers was assessed. In particular, this laminate was initially exposed to salt-fog for 15 and 30 days, and then stored in a controlled air condition for up to 21 days. The flax fiber-reinforced composite showed coupled reversible and irreversible aging phenomena during the wet stage, as well as evidencing a significant mechanical recovery during the dry stage. Unlike the stiffness, the laminate showed a noticeable recovery of its flexural strength. This behavior affected the composite material toughness. A simpli…

The role of different dispersing additives in the photo-oxidation behaviour of polyolefin-based OMMT nanocomposites

2010

SUPERHYDROPHOBIC TIO2-FLUORINATED POLYSILOXANE NANOCOMPOSITES WITH PHOTOCATALYTIC CLEANING ACTIVITY FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE APPLICATIONS

COMPUTATIONAL HOMOGENIZATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH PORES: A THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAIN BOUNDARY FORMULATION

2012

In this study, the influence of porosity on the elastic effective properties of polycrystalline materials is investigated using a 3D grain boundary micro mechanical model. The volume fraction of pores, their size and distribution can be varied to better simulate the response of real porous materials. The formulation is built on a boundary integral representation of the elastic problem for the grains, which are modeled as 3D linearly elastic orthotropic domains with arbitrary spatial orientation. The artificial polycrystalline morphology is represented using 3D Voronoi Tessellations. The formulation is expressed in terms of intergranular fields, namely displacements and tractions that play …

Étude d'inclusions végétales dans des tessons de poterie ou des matériaux de construction

2005

Vegetal inclusions embedded in clayey materials (cob, ceramic, mudbrick) are investigated by using impregnation of the porous material with a fluorescent polymer. The micro-casting of the porosity is exploited by following two ways. Sections of the treated samples are examined under UV-light, showing vegetal structures amenable to a botanical identification and quantification. Moreover, micro-casts embedded in the mineral matrix have been successfully sorted. This new application is a tool to study archaeological samples previously not amenable to the work of archaeobotanists and to expand their field of investigation.

Surface Treatment and nanofiller effect on the polymeric nanocomposites

2008

Procédé multiéchelle pour la reconstruction des courbes d'émission acoustique révélatrices des ruptures de fibres au sein d'un composite unidirection…

2006

International audience; Dans cette étude, la première partie du travail consiste en une analyse fine, par éléments finis, des mécanismes de report de charge entre lesfibres rompues et intactes d'un composite unidirectionnel. On considère différentes configurations d'endommagement du composite et deux types de comportement matriciel (élastique et viscoélastique) avec ou sans décohésion à l'interface fibre rompue/matrice. En raison de ces différents aspects, les limites habituelles des approches faites jusqu'à présent sont repoussées et notamment celles des modèles analytiques. La seconde partie du travail consiste en la mise en place d'un procédé multiéchelles qui synthétise les phénomènes m…

Dissemination/Communication Plan. Period concerning the plan: 01.01.2018-31.12.2020.

2018

The plan concerning different dissemination/communication activities during three years of the project implementation is given. Scientific results are proposed to be disseminated in well-recognized bi-annual international conferences, such as European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM) and International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM). Self-archiving of the main project results is planned within subject-based open-access repositories, such as ResearchGate and Zenodo. Two scientific publications in Q1-Q2 SCI journals and two popular scientific publications in popular scientific Latvian journals are foreseen. All data files obtained within the project are to be stored in centra…