Development of equipment to produce semifinished recyclable off axis fibre reinforced thermoplastic material

开发生产半成品可回收离轴纤维增强热塑性材料的设备

• 批准号: 720225
• 金额: $ 24.58万
• 依托单位: JOSEPH RHODES
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720225
• 关键词: Development; equipment; produce; semifinished; recyclable

This project aims to develop equipment to continuously produce semi-finished recyclable offaxis hermoplastic laminate with variable fibre orientations at a rate suitable for mass market production. The production of continuous tape with fibre reinforcement at varying angles is innovative and a significant improvement over the current technique that utilises a manual lay up. This innovation will allow thermoplastic materials to replace steel in structural applications where production volumes are too high for current manufacturing methods of thermoplastics, as the proposed machine can produce 225m2/h, which compares very favourably to the current state of the art. Laboratory studies indicate that the mass of the component will be reduced by more than 50% while maintaining and in some cases improving material mechanical properties.The increase in production rates which the proposed equipment provides not only opens up the mass production markets but also considerably brings down the price of manufacture compared with current methods. With such high production volumes the processing costs will be as little as 30p per m2 of semi-finished material compared with £1.05 for the equivalent product made from steel. The proposed thermoplastic polymer has excellent material properties such as high impact strength, environmental resistance, re-formability, recyclability and the capability of being used in stealth applications.The key objectives of this project are to develop equipment that will produce components for the automotive and the aerospace sector on a truly industrial scale with reduced production time, reduced cost and with the added benefit of superior strength to weight ratio. End products will have lower fuel consumption and reduce the carbon footprint for end users be it motorist or airliners. A further objective is to avoid the dependency on metal for the production of such components and replace it with the output from this machine.

该项目旨在开发设备，以适合大规模市场生产的速度连续生产具有可变纤维取向的半成品可回收离轴热塑性层压板。以不同角度生产具有纤维增强的连续带是创新的，并且是对利用手动铺叠的当前技术的显著改进。这一创新将允许热塑性材料在结构应用中取代钢，其中生产量对于当前的热塑性塑料制造方法来说太高，因为所提出的机器可以生产225 m2/h，实验室研究表明，该部件的质量将减少50%以上同时保持并在某些情况下改善材料的机械性能。所提出的设备提供的生产率的提高不仅打开了大规模生产市场，而且与现有方法相比大大降低了制造价格。在如此高的产量下，每平方米半成品材料的加工成本将低至30便士，而同等产品的钢材加工成本为1.05英镑。所提出的热塑性聚合物具有优异的材料性能，如高冲击强度、耐环境性、可再成形性、可回收性和用于隐身应用的能力。该项目的主要目标是开发能够以真正的工业规模生产汽车和航空航天部门部件的设备，降低了成本并具有上级强度重量比的附加益处。最终产品将具有更低的燃料消耗，并减少最终用户的碳足迹，无论是驾驶员还是飞机。另一个目的是避免生产这种部件对金属的依赖，并用这种机器的输出代替金属。