Replacing airport luggage handling infrastructure legacy materials with low-footprint alternatives: Phase I – Feasibility study

Materials circularity is becoming increasingly important for designers and manufacturers across the world, driven by a variety of factors including increased restrictions to landfill dumping through the legacy “make-take-dispose” model, through to social campaigns. The aim of this collaborative project is to perform a feasibility study on replacing current airport luggage handling infrastructure at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), designed and managed by Vanderlande Industries Canada Inc., with low environmental footprint alternatives and to begin migrating this dimension of Canada’s business towards the circular economy. The project involves benchmarking the performance of the current and new candidate materials including their mechanical properties and end of life biodegradabilty, as well as numerical modeling of typical in-service loading conditions for optimizing the re-design proces

Faculty Supervisor:

Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani

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Partner:

Vanderlande Industries

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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