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Environmental Technology Research Network
in the Asia-Pacific Region

DB for Research Project
Category(1) : Wastes
Category(2) : Others


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  3. Research Catagory 1
  4. Research Catagory 2
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  6. Researchers
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  15. International Joint Study with

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory(MEL), Japan

  1. Evaluation of Product Dismantlability for High Quality Material Recycling
  2. 1996-1998
  3. Waste, Global warming potential
  4. counter measures, others(product design)
  5. manufactuirng engineering
  6. Mitsuro HATTORI, Tohru WAIDA, Hideo INOUE
  7. Machining Process Division, Department of Manufacturing Systems
  8. MEL, AIST, MITI
  9. 1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81 XXX XX 7072
  12. 81 XXX XX 7201
  13. The ecologically conscious product depends mainly on how much consideration is given toenvironmental issues in the design phase. In this project, design strategy for materials selection and structure decision for aiming at resource recycling, is investigated, and a developing prototype design support system which is based on such strategy is introduced. In this system which is based on commercially available CAD system and database, material candidates are selected with solving trade-off relations among ecological, functional, andeconomical criteria tohelp a designer's choice. Also, essential parts which should be dismantled for resource recy-cling are pointed out, and dismantling information such as manual operation time is estimated from CAD data and some attribute data, to help a designer decide basic structure of product. Selected joining method and products performance such asproducts strength should be examined in the future work.
  14. M. Hattori et. al., Fundamentals of Environmentally conscious Product Design, Inter. J.of Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing, Vol.4, No.1, 3-11,1995 M. Hattori et. al., Design Strategy for ecologically conscious product, Proc. of 3rd Inter.Se-minar on Life Cycle Engineering, 99-106, 1996