Circular economy for plastic and composite materials

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Bamber Blackman

Bamber Blackman

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Keywords:

  • Recycling of plastics, cost advantages for joining techniques, repair using adhesively bonded solutions
  • Fracture mechanics and structural integrity of bonded joints, lightweight structures, laminates etc.
  • Impact and high strain rate fracture properties of lightweight materials
  • Use of fracture mechanics to guide performance increases
  • Fatigue and durability of lightweight materials and structures
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Maria Charalambides

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Keywords:

  • Mechanical recycling of plastic packaging
  • Environmental fatigue in mulitlayered works of art
  • Mechanical behaviour and modelling of adhesion, foams, particulate composites
  • Material modelling and mechanical characterisation of soft polymeric solids and comsposites including rheology and high rate properties
  • Micromechanics models of particulate composites, peeling of coatings, cohesive zone models for interfaces
  • Rain erosion of wind turbine blade coatings
  • Experimental and numerical modelling of industrial food manufacturing processes as well as oral and gastric processes
  • Sustainable food manufacturing
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John Dear

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Keywords:

  • Life-time assessment/damage modelling
  • Impact/damage modelling
  • High-rate properties/damage development
  • Damage development

 

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Soraia Pimenta

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Keywords:

  • Recycled composites. Recycled plastics. Life-cycle analysis
  • Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
  • Interface modelling
  • Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
Ambrose Taylor

Ambrose Taylor

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Keywords:

  • Post-consumer recycling, mechanical recycling, adhesive repairs
  • Consolidants & fills, cracking, fracture, effects of RH and light
  • Fibre composite fracture & fatigue, syntactic foams, bonded structures
  • High-rate properties, fracture of polymers, adhesives & composites
  • Toughening, analytical modelling of toughness
  • Lifetime prediction & durability of adhesives & composites, coating durability
  • Microstructural characterisation
  • Coil-coating
  • Ceramic particle modified polymers, toughening polymers using ceramic particles
  • Food processing