Inverse-Manufacturing Technology for Polymer Based Composite Materials

Advanced compositematerials (ACM) such as carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) have a high specific strength, rigidity and advantage of being able to be designed to meet specific requirements. ACMs have been extensively developed and applied to a wide range of industrial fields including aeronautics and astronautics, ship, vehicles, civil engineering and architecture, sports and recreational articles.
Off-setting these various advantages, ACMs also have detrimental which effects may be harmful to the global ecological system after the end of product life. Some experts point out that, under present circumstances, this may produce more man-made garbage which is hard to incinerate or recycle and finally result in devastation of the ecological system.
A recent trend of research and development of industrial materials and products, the so-called Inverse Manufacturing, reuse and recycling technology for discarded products, consequently making promote saving resource and energy without cinsumption of natunal resource.
This paper place special emphasis on orginal composites compatible with bthe requirements for recyclling as an Inverse Manufacturing. A concept of envirnmentally consciousness, smart composites, mesomissible (mesoscopic mixtureable) materials and repairing technology for infrastructure using fiber reinforced laminates are able to saftisfy various functional requirement and impose fewer hazards for the global environmental system is introduced.