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Automotive material sustainability through reversible adhesives

Future low carbon vehicles will exploit multi-material concepts with mass-optimised design approaches that facilitate materials recovery at end-of-life. Appropriate vehicle assembly/disassembly technologies include adhesive bonding with a reversible functionality, a materials recovery approach developed in our EPSRC DRIVENet Network (Ref GR/S87577/01). We defined, uniquely, an engineering framework for optimizing practical joint disassembly and ensuring satisfactory joint performance in service. Results were presented at the IOMMM Materials Congress Grantham 2008 and EURADH Glasgow 2009. The research provided a foundation for current activity both in the EPSRC TARF-LCV project (Ref EP/1038616/) and in cross-disciplinary internally-funded research at Oxford Brookes.