Life Cycle Assessment of Thermoplastic Hybrid Structures with Hollow Profiles

The combination of innovative materials, process chins and intelligent material-adapted design concepts enables an efficient part production for future mobility applications. Hybrid structures made of thermoplastic pre-impregnated composite (TPC) sheets and injection moulding bulk material have already crossed the threshold to series production. Thanks to a newly developed production technology, hollow profiles with continuous fibres can now also be integrated into thermoplastic composite hybrid structures in the sense of a modular design system. However, the resource consumption of such hybrid structures has not yet been investigated.