Thesis worker - Circular Plastics for Future Truck Components

Construction, Engineering & Trades · Civil & Industrial Engineering · Chemical Engineering · Manufacturing Engineering

In short

Traton offers a thesis project focused on circular plastics for future truck components. The project involves investigating plastic waste from the truck value chain, characterizing materials, and manufacturing/evaluating component demonstrators to assess feasibility and meet requirements. This role is ideal for Master's students in relevant engineering fields.

Responsibilities

Review relevant literature and define characterization and evaluation approach.
Identify and document sources and condition of collected plastic materials.
Characterize selected materials and compare their properties with virgin material.
Assess material preparation and manufacturing considerations.
Manufacture selected truck component demonstrators using suitable recovered material.
Evaluate demonstrators against defined requirements using agreed test methods.
Analyze results and draw conclusions about feasibility, limitations, and further work.
Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and students on related CIRCAB2 topics.
Present results and recommendations for future development.

Requirements

Master’s student in materials engineering, polymer technology, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, manufacturing engineering, product development or a related field.
Good collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications

An interest in polymers, material characterization, testing, manufacturing and circular use of materials is valuable.
Experience with laboratory work, data analysis or component testing is an advantage.

Benefits

Opportunity to get to know Traton and build relationships for the future.
The project is expected to correspond to a 30 hp master’s thesis.

Skills

Polypropylenematerial characterizationmaterial testingdata analysiscomponent testing

#circular economy#plastics#truck components#materials engineering#polymer technology#mechanical engineering#chemical engineering#manufacturing engineering#product development#recycling

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