Background
Nowadays, additive manufacturing (AM) techniques are efficient enough to produce products with a material compatible with the usage. Taking into account the performances of these new techniques in a new remanufacturing strategy could open the new ways to transform an end of life (EoL) part into a new part intended for another product, without returning to the level of raw material.
The objectives of this thesis aim to solve two following issues:
(1) The first issue concerned to technological feasibility: is it possible to build new features on an existing part by AM techniques? More importantly, do the AM-built features have a strong bond with the existing part, and behave as a unique part? In this research, we firstly focus on the metal AM techniques (e.g., EBM, SLM and CLAD/DMD).
(2) The second issue concerned to the study of the complete remanufacturing strategy from a technological point of view, and from economic and environmental points of view.
- Design of manufacturing operation sequence allowing to transform an end of life part into a new part intended for another product;
- Identification of end of life products whose the parts can be the starting base;
- Evaluation of economic efficiency and environmental impact.
PhD candidate: Van Thao LE
University Grenoble-Alpes, 2014 - 2017
PhD supervisor: Henri PARIS, Guillaume MANDIL
Partnership:
Research process
Investigation on the technological feasibility of AM techniques for the strategy;
Study the complete remanufacturing chain compatible with the technology.
Product topology that best fits to the expected strategy.
Study the complete remanufacturing chain compatible with the technology.
Product topology that best fits to the expected strategy.
Expected results
Methods and Models;
Classification of EoL parts in line with the proposed strategy;
Technological, environmental and economic performances;
Valorization of obtained results in the international journals and conferences.
Classification of EoL parts in line with the proposed strategy;
Technological, environmental and economic performances;
Valorization of obtained results in the international journals and conferences.
Last Update: 2016.01.18