Development of Biocomposite Wall Cladding from Kenaf Fibre by Extrusion Molding Process

Biodegradable PLA-Kenaf Fibre Biocomposite for Cleaner Environment

This project was undertaken to study the biodegradability of PLA-KF biocomposite in different conditions; soil burial and immersion in water. The samples were buried in soil for 40 days to investigate the degradability of biocomposites. As for water absorption tests, the samples were immersed in three different types of water which were river water (pH 6), tap water (pH 7) and sea water (pH 7.5...

Development of resonantly cladding-pumped holmium-doped fibre lasers

The resonant pumping of holmium fibre lasers provides a fibre laser platform capable of addressing a wide range of applications that benefit from operation at wavelengths beyond 2.1 μm. This architecture can provide laser devices that promise high efficiency sources in the 2.1 μm spectral region with excellent beam quality and power scalability. This paper presents our recent results of resonan...

Friction Surface Cladding FRICTION SURFACE CLADDING DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLID STATE CLADDING PROCESS

Neural Modeling of Parison Extrusion in Extrusion Blow Molding

Back-propagation (BP) neural network is used to develop process models for the parison extrusion in extrusion blow molding based on experimental data. In applying the BP network, some modifications, such as using a self-adaptive learning rate coefficient, determining the number of hidden neurons through experimentation, and so on, to the original BP algorithm are carried out to speed up learnin...

Flexural Properties of Kenaf Fibre Mat Reinforced PLA Composites

The potential use of natural biopolymer composites in a variety of applications that requires biodegradability and better mechanical properties has renewed many researchers interest on the composites. This research involves the analysis of flexural properties for natural fibers specifically kenaffiber mat in a polylactic acid (PLA) matrix (KMPLA). The polylactic acid has been chosen as a matrix...