Designing for material separation: Lessons from automotive recycling

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Coulter, Stewart ^a   Bras, Bert ^a   Winslow, Gerald ^b   Yester, Susan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENT PANELS; SEPARATION; VEHICLES;

AUTOMOTIVE RECYCLING; EARLY DESIGNS; MATERIAL SEPARATION; RECYCLABILITY; RECYCLING PROCESS; SEPARATION PROCESS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUES; VEHICLE COMPONENTS;

RECYCLING;

EID: 84891477277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/96-DETC/DFM-1270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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