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Title Materials development in transportation industry: Fuel consumption, safety and recycling
ID_Doc 23354
Authors Elsabbagh, A
Title Materials development in transportation industry: Fuel consumption, safety and recycling
Year 2023
Published Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 14, 6
DOI 10.1016/j.asej.2022.102096
Abstract Development in materials used in transportation industry is governed by three factors namely, increasing fuel price, strict regulations for passenger safety and fulfilment of carbon neutrality. Safety regulations encourage materials to meet criteria of energy absorption, fire retardance and safe crash behavior. Composites or hybrids have relative advantages. Saving fuel consumption promotes reducing the weight of the vehicle. Composites and new alloys like high strength steel grades are competing. Recycling of material targets the low carbon footprint. Composites are not favorable in this aspect. Global directives are issued to put the recycling process in an obligatory mechanism. Recycling fees are levied on the new transportation vehicles and divided between the whole chain stakeholders. Case studies are presented where material development promotes one of the competing approaches, namely composites or hybrids or even going back to mono-materials like steels. This work perceives the question about these approaches regarding these three factors.(c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Uni-versity. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Author Keywords Transportation; Composite; Recycling; Hybrid; Circular economy
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000944796600001
WoS Category Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Research Area Engineering
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asej.2022.102096
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