Abstract
The global demand for fiber-based products is continuously increasing. The increased consumption and fast fashion current in the global clothing market generate a significant quantity of pre-and post-production waste that ends up in landfills and incinerators. The present study aims to obtain a new waste-based composite material panel for construction applications with improved mechanical properties that can replace traditional wood-based oriented strand boards (OSB). The new composite material is formed by using textile wastes as a reinforcement structure and a combination of bi-oriented polypropylene films (BOPP) waste, polypropylene non-woven materials (TNT) waste and virgin polypropylene fibers (PP) as a matrix. The mechanical properties of waste-based composite materials are modeled using the Taguchi method based on orthogonal arrays to maximize the composite characteristics’ mechanical properties. Experimental data validated the theoretical results obtained.
Highlights
The present paper aims at assessing the opportunity of improving the overall environmental performances of the construction and textile industries by using various textile wastes for manufacturing a panel that can be used as an oriented strand boards (OSB) board replacement, with a thickness of 8 mm, for assembling the interior non-structural walls in light timber frame building
The novelty of this study resides in the combination of pre-and post-production textile wastes used as reinforcement structure and bi-oriented polypropylene films waste and polypropylene non-woven materials waste used as matrix
The obtained results reveal that developing composite material panels for construction applications made from pre-and post-production textile material wastes to replace traditional wood-based oriented strand boards is an efficient solution
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The demand for textile products is experiencing exponential growth generated by both demographic indicators and the fashion industry. By increasing consumption and fast-changing fashion trends in the global clothing market as a result of the new fast fashion current, a substantial product life cycle shortening can be remarked. These aspects generate increased amounts of post-consumer waste added to the initial pre-consumption waste, which results during all technological flows of the processing industry of fibers, fabrics, textile garments, interior textiles and technical textiles.
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