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: Received: 13 September 2023 / Approved: 14 September 2023 / Online: 14 September 2023 (07:14:40 CEST)
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Sousa, S.P.; Baptista, A.J.; Marques, A.T. Material Design-for-Excellence (M-DFX) – A New Holistic Analysis for Glass and Basalt Composite Materials. Preprints2023, 2023090954. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0954.v1
Sousa, S.P.; Baptista, A.J.; Marques, A.T. Material Design-for-Excellence (M-DFX) – A New Holistic Analysis for Glass and Basalt Composite Materials. Preprints 2023, 2023090954. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0954.v1
Sousa, S.P.; Baptista, A.J.; Marques, A.T. Material Design-for-Excellence (M-DFX) – A New Holistic Analysis for Glass and Basalt Composite Materials. Preprints2023, 2023090954. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0954.v1
APA Style
Sousa, S.P., Baptista, A.J., & Marques, A.T. (2023). Material Design-for-Excellence (M-DFX) – A New Holistic Analysis for Glass and Basalt Composite Materials. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0954.v1
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Sousa, S.P., António J. Baptista and António Torres Marques. 2023 "Material Design-for-Excellence (M-DFX) – A New Holistic Analysis for Glass and Basalt Composite Materials" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0954.v1
Abstract
Advanced composite materials have drawn significant interest in the last years as an alternative to traditional materials due to their higher performance. However, industry struggle to provide low-cost, higher occupational safety, lower footprint with composites, making them suitable for holistic analyses. Therefore, the material design becomes an essential element that can impact the competitiveness, particularly in terms of productivity, circularity, safety, sustainability, and quality of the value chain. The Material Design-for-eXcellence is a state-of-art methodology for material performance multi-dimensional assessment along its life cycle phases, either useful to support ma-terial selection for new products or also to new material design support optimizing resource effi-ciency. In this methodology, the material behaviour and its multiple characteristics assessment, and the manufacturing processes efficiency are evaluated. The framework considers the analogy of product design holistic approaches, as Lean Design-for-X, to organize and assess the mul-ti-dimensional performance for each “X” Material Property. In this work, it was possible to observe that the bio-based composites solutions could be a good sustainable alternative for several sectors. Every day researchers are creating more new materials, having a diversity of properties at different scales, Material Design-for-eXcellence must also in the near future consider other factors. Hence, additional studies are thus foreseen to explore and develop this new tool.
Keywords
Material Design-for-eXcellence; Material Design-for-X; M-DfX; Advanced Materials; Material Performance Assessment; Eco-efficiency; Sustainability; Material Life Cycle
Subject
Engineering, Other
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