Biomass–fungi composites, an emerging class of sustainable materials, have potential applications in the construction and packaging industries. Molding-based manufacturing methods are typically employed to make products from these composites. Recently, a 3D printing-based method was developed for biomass–fungi composites eliminate need making molds facilitate customized product design compared ...

This paper presents a soft computing strategy to determine the optimum die openings of parison programming of extrusion blow molding process. The design objective is to obtain a uniform thickness of blown parts. The proposed strategy, Fuzzy Neural-Taguchi, first establishes a back propagation network using Taguchi’s experimental array to predict the relationship between design variables and res...

The Apitong wood species has long been the most popular choice for transportation, such as in trailer decking and shipping container floors. However, is depleting due to its excessive usage. Bamboo fiber provides an alternative low density (608–780 kg/m 3 ) lightweight attributes. This study explores 1) development properties of bamboo-thermoplastic composites with different content, 2) applica...

hemicellulose of southern yellow pine wood spices was extracted by pressurized hot water at three different temperatures: 140°c, 155°c and 170°c. compounding with pp (polypropylene) was performed by extrusion after preparing wood flour and sieving to determine its mesh size. the ratio of wood to polymer was 50:50 based on oven-dry weight of wood flour. all extraction treatments and control samp...