Retired electric-vehicle lithium-ion battery (EV-LIB) packs pose severe environmental
hazards. Efficient recovery of these spent batteries is a significant way to achieve closed …

Contamination of agricultural soils with heavy metals present lethal consequences in terms
of diverse ecological and environmental problems that entail entry of metal in food chain …

The last century has seen an increased prevalence and duration of droughts as well as the
water shortage especially in Middle East countries like Iran. This urgent situation in Iran such …

Sandwich structures are important innovative multifunctional structures with the advantages
of low density and high performance. Creative design for sandwich structures is a design …

Predictive maintenance is one of the important technical means to guarantee and improve
the normal industrial production. The existing bottlenecks for popularization and application …

With the arrival of the big data era, a lot of valuable data have been generated in the entire
product life cycle. The gathered product data contain a lot of design knowledge, which …

Disassembly is an essential step in a remanufacturing process via which valuable parts and
material of end-of-life (EOL) products can be well reused and resource waste is reduced …

Disassembly planning aims to perform the optimal disassembly sequence given a used or
obsolete product in terms of cost and environmental impact. This paper presents a new …

Abstract Design for disassembly (DFD) is an essential design technique to consider the
disassembly and recyclability of a product at the initial design stage. An efficient DFD …

To successfully implement circular economy processes into present value chains, economic
feasibility of disassembly processes is essential. Current developments in science and …