Atharva Joshi

Project description

My aim through this PhD project is to contribute towards industrial implementation of recycling and circular strategies for composites. To achieve this, I plan to study and benchmark all the different recycling technologies involved in Fibreloop, in particular the technology developed by FAIRMAT.

To establish an improved and more realistic assessment procedure, the effect of recycling on conditioned and/or fatigued materials will be evaluated to better represent End-of Life parts. The mechanical recycling parameters will be optimised in terms of property loss, considering different load combinations and environmental histories.The recycling assessment protocol will be validated on the exemplary case of a wind turbine blade. As a result of the project, a pre-conditioning procedure for analysing the recycling process and an optimisation protocol for the mechanical recycling of End-of Life composite parts is expected.