Tool Description#

The Matrix Tool is an online web-tool to help manage find a replacement recycled plastics (recyclate) with certain properties or to find potential buyers of your produced plastics. TODO

Advantages of Shared Matrix Tool#

1. The matrix tool can help remove the barrier of one-to-one communication between customer and supplier.

2. Customers/buyers can find their desired recyclate using the matrix tool. Even if the material is not present they can always request the material with required properties.

3. Suppliers can showcase their recyclates and attract customers using the tool.

4. Customers can request testing to verify the mentioned properties.

5. There will be an increase in the recylate uptake.

Explaination of Important Material Properties#

Charpy Impact Strength: Deontes the energy needed for the fracture of the material. The greater the value the more resistant the material is to cracking upon being hit and vice versa.

Strain at yield: Denotes the percentage of elongation of the material at its maximum elastic point. The greater the value the greater the eleoongation and vice versa.

Yield Stress: Force the material can handle at its maximum elastic point. The greater the value the more force the material can handle and vice versa.

E-modulus: Denotes the stiffness of the material. The greater the value the more siffer the material is and vice versa.

Vicat: Denotes the temperature at which the material softens.

MFI: Denotes the flow behavior of the material. This property is very important for the processing technology.

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Guidelines#

Before you are getting started, take a look at the guidelines(info) and make yourself familiar with how to use the tool.

Getting Started#

The tool is available at https://matrix.sis.cs.uos.de/login.xhtml. Please contact ??? to get access to the tool.