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SUMMARY:IMX Talks - Sustainability driven composite materials developme
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Véronique Michaud\, Laboratory for Processing of Advanc
 ed Composites\, EPFL\nStructural polymer composite materials development h
 as been driven by aerospace\, sports and many industrial applications by l
 everaging their high specific mechanical properties\, tailorable processin
 g methods from prototypes to large volume production\, corrosion and fatig
 ue resistance\, among other benefits. Thanks to these properties\, these m
 aterials are crucial in the development of light-weight transport vehicles
 \, wind mill rotor blades\, hydrogen pressure vessels\, compressors and op
 en fan rotors\,... which form an integral part of the current approach to 
 reduce our environmental footprint.  On the other hand\, composite materi
 als suffer from the use of high embodied energy materials\, generally requ
 ire high energy\, pressure and long times to heat-up and process the parts
 \, and are difficult to deal with in their end of life.\nOur laboratory ex
 plores various strategies to reconcile these a-priori antagonistic proposi
 tions\, through the use of alternative fiber and polymer sources\, the opt
 imisation of processing methods\, the development of lower energy manufact
 uring processes using out-of-autoclave\, frontal or UV driven polymerizati
 on\, up to design concepts promoting in-situ repair\, disassembly\, recycl
 ing and circular economy concepts. The need to evaluate the environmental 
 impact of a priori sustainable materials and manufacturing methods for spe
 cific application scenarios will also be highlighted with concrete example
 s from our current research.\n\nBio: Véronique Michaud is currently head 
 of the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites at the Ecole Polyt
 echnique Fédérale de Lausanne\, in Switzerland. She graduated in 1987 fr
 om Ecole des Mines in Paris with an engineering degree\, in 1991 from MIT 
 with a PhD in Materials Engineering\, and obtained a Research Habilitation
  from INPG in France in 1994. After a post-doctoral research stay at MIT\,
  she spent 3 years at Ecole Centrale in Paris for teaching and research in
  the Laboratory for Materials\, Structures and Soils Mechanics\, before jo
 ining EPFL in 1997 as post-doctoral researcher\, then adjunct professor in
  2009\, and associate professor in 2017. Her fields of research address fu
 ndamental aspects of composite materials processing\, from a technical but
  also economic and environmental perspective \, as well as the development
  of smart materials and structures including self-healing\, shape and vibr
 ation control and tailored damping. She is the author of more than 370 pub
 lications\, out of which about 180 in peer-reviewed journals\, and several
  patents. She is co-founder of the start-up CompPair Technologies SA\, whi
 ch was created in 2020\, served as Associate Dean for Education for the fa
 culty of Engineering from 2017-2023\, represents EPFL in the board of the 
 association "ecoinvent" and is European Editor for the journal Composites 
 Part A.\n 
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