High density polyethylene (hdpe) as a prominent marine small craft building material: opportunities and obstacles

The existing and potential uses of HDPE in marine industry have been introduced in detail, in this study. The methods of manufacturing with HDPE have been compared in terms of usage characteristics such as design approach, cost, time, and performance by experts and users opionions. Apart from these conventional methods, additivemanufacturing methods (AMMs) has come into prominence today’s small craft industryand HDPE has been considered as a potential material for this method in spite of itsobstacles. The ways of improvement of HDPE for AMMs such as “reinforcements withglass or carbon fibres” has been also introduced based on early experimental results.