Static shear response of recycled carbon fibre composites for structural applications
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 188062627
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112358
- Title of journal
- Composite Structures
- Article number
- 112358
- First page
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- Volume
- 246
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- ISSN
- 0263-8223
- Open access status
- Access exception
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- 30-40% of high value carbon fibre (CF) becomes waste during production and subsequent manufacturing. CF recycling technologies can provide fibres suitable for reuse in applications such as wind turbine blades. However, the internal fibre architecture is different to conventional composites and reasons for differences in performance must be understood. Our research, part-funded by ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd since 2017, involved development of new test protocols for recycled, discontinuous, needle-punched, non-woven CF/epoxy composites. We found that composite shear behaviour was highly dependent on the CF architecture of the particular material, thus highlighting the need for structural optimisation of such composites.
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- Non-English
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