Objective
New highly functional fiber reinforced composite materials (at least 2) will be developed, based on natural fibers and thermoplastics from renewable agroindustrial resources. These composite materials will be chosen from 5 different fibers combined with 4 sorts of matrices. Additional combinations are investigated by modifying both fibers and matrix materials based on starch and proteins.
The overall aim of this project is to provide at least one demonstration part made of suitable composite material for automotive application. The automotive industry is playing a leading role in innovative material development. The experience with new biocomposites in those applications will therefore be used as door-opener to step into other markets. The ,,biocomposite'-demonstration part(s) will be manufactured on a pre-competitive level to show the potential of such materials.
It is planed to deliver additional parts such as geotextiles and soil anchors in landscape application. The necessary process technology for materials treatment and demonstration part manufacturing will be adapted and/or improved in order to obtain material and prototype part properties which are competitive to commercial glass fiber reinforced polymers. Emphasis is put on the quality of materials, parts and manufacturing. All results on quality will be monitored and assessed at all different stages within the given product chain. As both fibers and matrix materials are obtained from renewable resources the composites and the demonstration parts will provide biodegradability as an additional stand alone criteria opening up new applications (e.g. Triggerable biodegradation for well-defined product life) and additional waste management possibilities (as composting). Biodegradability will be assessed with standard tests and more sophisticated methods which are to be developed within this project. The ecological impact of these new biocomposites and their economical asset in terms of expected costs will be evaluated by means of a complete life cycle analysis.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering fibers
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites biocomposites
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering automotive engineering
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids
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Coordinator
85354 FREISING
Germany
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