Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing

Journal article

Alessia Romani*, Stefan Caba, Raffaella Suriano, Marinella Levi
Applied Sciences, vol. 13(10), 2023 May, p. 5848

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Romani*, A., Caba, S., Suriano, R., & Levi, M. (2023). Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing. Applied Sciences, 13(10), 5848. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13105848

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Romani*, Alessia, Stefan Caba, Raffaella Suriano, and Marinella Levi. “Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing.” Applied Sciences 13, no. 10 (May 2023): 5848.

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Romani*, Alessia, et al. “Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing.” Applied Sciences, vol. 13, no. 10, May 2023, p. 5848, doi:10.3390/app13105848.

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@article{alessia2023a,
  title = {Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing},
  year = {2023},
  month = may,
  issue = {10},
  journal = {Applied Sciences},
  pages = {5848},
  volume = {13},
  doi = {10.3390/app13105848},
  author = {Romani*, Alessia and Caba, Stefan and Suriano, Raffaella and Levi, Marinella},
  month_numeric = {5}
}

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ANVUR Class A Journal Area 08, Sector 08/C1 (Design)

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Selected as the Cover Article of Issue 10, Volume 3, Applied Sciences

Abstract

This work explores the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to reprocess recycled glass and carbon fibers in the automotive sector. It aims to foster exploitation of recycled Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (rGFRPs) and recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (rCFRPs) through two manufacturing workflows: indirect Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and UV-assisted Direct Ink Writing (UV-DIW). An industrial case study on vehicle components has been considered by prototyping one real component. After the tensile tests, some molds were fabricated with a FFF 3D printer for the indirect 3D printing process to cast an epoxy-based thermosetting resin with rGFs and rCFs. The second technology consisted in fabricating the parts by hardening in-situ a photo- and thermal-curable thermosetting acrylic liquid resin with rGFs. These results validate the use of AM and recycled composites for applications in the automotive sector. These approaches may be implemented for customizable components for batches below 100 vehicles as the first step for their exploitation. 1

Keywords

Polymer–matrix composites (PMCs) // Circular economy // Recycled fibers reinforced polymers (FRPs) // Indirect 3D printing // Direct Ink Writing // liquid deposition modeling // Design for additive manufacturing

Cover Article of Issue 10, Volume 3, Applied Sciences

Cover Story

3D Printed Automotive Parts with Recycled Glass/Carbon Fiber-reinforced Polymers

This work explores the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to reprocess recycled glass and carbon fibers in the automotive sector. It aims to foster the exploitation of recycled Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (rGFRPs) and recycled Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (rCFRPs) using two manufacturing workflows: indirect Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and UV-assisted Direct Ink Writing (UV-DIW). After tensile tests, some molds were fabricated with an FFF 3D printer for the indirect 3D printing process to cast epoxy-based thermosetting resin with rGFs and rCFs. The second technology consisted of fabricating parts via hardening in situ a photo- and thermal-curable thermosetting acrylic liquid resin with rGFs. These results validate the use of AM and recycled composites for applications in the automotive sector.2

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📑 Full text (publisher version) 3
📊 Test Dataset (Excel Spreadsheet) 4

Romani, A., Caba, S., Suriano, R., and Levi, M., 2023. Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing. Applied Sciences, Vol 13(10), 5848. DOI: [10.3390/app13105848](10.3390/app13105848) ↩
1. Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 10 (May-2 2023). Cover Issue. Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/10
Romani, A., Caba, S., Suriano, R., and Levi, M., 2023. Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing. Applied Sciences, Vol 13(10), 5848. DOI: [10.3390/app13105848](10.3390/app13105848) ↩
Romani, A. 2023. Dataset_A.Romani_2023_AppliedSciences. Dataset Repository. Available at Zenodo.org. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11235564 ↩