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Symbiotic Circularity in Buildings: An Alternative Path for Valorizing Sheet Metal Waste Stream as Metal Building Facades
PurposeThis study suggests an alternative approach to valorize non-hazardous industrial solid waste flow into construction materials, in particular...
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From Building Information Modelling to Digital Twins: Digital Representation for a Circular Economy
Building information modelling (BIM) has ushered in the era of symbolic building representation: building elements and spaces are described not by...
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Products Life Cycle Management: An Introductory Overview
In this chapter, the circularity approach is discussed during the product life cycle. First, sustainable manufacturing is explained. Three essential...
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Scenario analysis tool for estimating future waste composition and amounts toward a circular economy
Municipal solid waste management has a potential to increase circularity by reduction of virgin material extraction and use of secondary materials. A...
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An analysis of hurdles for ecofriendly lean production in Indian manufacturing industries using AHP–ELECTRE approach
The aim of current work is to analyze the hurdles for enhancing sustainable lean operations in the generation of digital era and green revolution. As...
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A Survey on Current Practices, Strategies and Research Needs for Circular Manufacturing of Plastics
Advances in manufacturing technology made plastics comparatively inexpensive, light, mouldable and durable. The great success of plastics comes along...
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Experimental analysis of Inconel 625 alloy to enhance the dimensional accuracy with vibration assisted micro-EDM
With the continuous improvement in manufacturing processes there is an amalgamation of digital technology with traditional concepts. Electric...
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Investigation on Machinability of EN8 Steel Through Taguchi Method, ANOVA and Genetic Algorithm
This work studies the machinability of EN8 steel by employing Taguchi method, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and genetic algorithm (GA). The CNC...
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An Integrated Fermatean Fuzzy Multi-attribute Evaluation of Digital Technologies for Circular Public Sector Supply Chains
The barriers to implementing circular supply chains are well explored, but very little is provided to understand how these barriers play in public...
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Towards sustainability through the circular economy of plastic packaging waste management in Rayong Province, Thailand
The circularity of plastic packaging waste (PPW) material via recycling is critical to its circular economy towards sustainability and carbon...
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New Paradigm for R&D and Business Model of Textile Circularity
Recycling of garments is difficult due to the complexity of blended materials used during manufacturing. There is also the logistics challenge of...
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The Case of Fabric and Textile Industry: The Emerging Role of Digitalization, Internet-of-Things and Industry 4.0 for Circularity
In the circular economy (CE) world, design is a vital tool to transform waste to wealth to enhance material recycling for new products (e.g., design...
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Enhancement of Electrochemical Discharge Machining (ECDM) Characteristics with Tool Electrode Rotation
Electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM) process is a novel process that utilizes the mechanism of thermal melting and chemical dissolution to...
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Circular Business Models for Digital Technologies in the Built Environment
Business model innovation enabled by novel digital technologies can accelerate the impact and upscaling of the circular economy in the built...
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How to Add Value and Close Loops with External Flows of Material and Energy in a Rural Property? A Tool Based on Circular Economy Initiatives
Circular economy actions can be alternatives to closing loops, with material-, waste- and energy-related initiatives towards promoting greater...
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Circular Strategies to Improve Ephemeral Products Sustainability Through Co-creation and Its Metrics
This study shows particularities of the problem caused by ephemeral products (EP), products with a short life cycle or products for immediate use...
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AA4032-TiC-h-BN-related composites: a machine learning model-based experimental study with performance prediction
This study attempts to investigate the geometrical tolerance of AA4032-based metal matrix composites (MMC) machined using EDM. Two variants of...
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Semi-Empirical Modeling of Laser Micro-Drilling on Aluminium 6061 Alloy for Prediction of Geometrical Features
Laser micro-hole drilling is one of the non–conventional processes performed across various industries for different purposes and materials. In this...
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Investigation on the effect of the gas-to-metal ratio on powder properties and PBF-LB/M processability
Metal powders for the laser powder bed fusion process are usually produced via gas atomization. However, due to the tight particle size distribution...
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Optimization of Hole Characteristics During LTD of ZTA Plate
Excellent hardness and toughness of zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) ceramic composite make it worthy to fabricate the parts for defense, aerospace...