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...

The objective of any automatic system is to acquire input data and resolve the output activities in an autonomous and efficient way. Among other control equipment, sensors are an important component of such systems. This work describes the design and implementation of a sensory-based control system for the operation of a compression molding press machine. The overall operation and control is ba...

With the rapid growth in the ethanol fuel industry in recent years, considerable research is being devoted to optimizing the use of processing coproducts, such as distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), in livestock diets. Because these residues contain high fiber levels, they may be amendable to incorporation into biobased composites. Thus, the goal of this study was to demonstrate the v...

As a breakthrough in the cost and durability of molds for nanoimprint lithography (NIL), replica molds are fabricated by injection compression molding (ICM). ICM is commonly used for optical disks such as DVDs or Blu-ray disks and is also a practical fabrication method for nanostructures. In this paper, I successfully demonstrated the fabrication of cycloolefin polymer replica molds with struct...

Accomplishments Analysis of the current modeling approach for CRTM, as well as for some of the physical phenomena involved in the process, such as preform deformation, revealed certain weaknesses in the numerical approach and, more importantly, significant gaps in fundamental understanding of underlying physics. New governing relations for the general Liquid Composite Molding (LCM) and, in part...