Floods are the most common natural disaster that occurs in Malaysia, especially during monsoon season. Emergency shelter is provided immediately to provide a safe and secure place for victims stay after disaster. The typical emergency by government an indoor modular. However, victims’ privacy safety cannot be ensured, feel uncomfortable. Hence, better easy assemble, dismantled, light, strong sh...

A novel wood-based composite has been developed for use in structural applications. The process was designed to utilize rapidly-grown, low density, wood species. Plantation grown radiata pine is particularly well suited to this process. This is a laminated composite, where the lamina may be comprised of various materials, some of which have been treated with the viscoelastic thermal compression...

A novel biomass composite inspired from wood porous structure was manufactured by impregnating vinyl monomer into wood cellular structure under vacuum conditions, and initiating the monomer for in situ polymerization through a thermal treatment. The vacuum condition was studied, and the mechanical properties of the composite were also tested. SEM observation shows that polymer generated in the ...

In this study, mechanical and biodegradability properties of wood plastic composite were investigated. Beech (fagus orientalis) flour 40 wt% was used as a reinforcing base material, maleic anhydride coupling agents nano clay to improve the added. The polymer studied polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) other high-density polyethylene (HDPE) .Three groups composites produced, in two each polymers alone thi...

Recently, a processing technique resembling plastic-type forming has been developed for solid wood. To improve the recyclability of the formed products, thermoplastics were used as a binder. In this study, a hydrophobic monomer of methylmethacrylate (MMA) was used as a thermoplastic binder and was impregnated into wood, then polymerised by heat to form polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). The effects...


 The quest to discover more and enhance the qualities of agro-residue for use as natural reinforcement polymers continues attract attention researchers because environmental friendliness. Hyphaene thebaica also known doum palm is a fruit tree native Nile in Egypt found abundance many parts Africa. Doum contains probably hardest toughest nut. nuts (DPN) are most under-used hard-nut despite...

Innovative ways of avoiding heavy plastic deposits all over the world must be designed and implemented via recycling post-used materials by reusing them as new products with better mechanical properties. As a result continuous use different materials, influencing effects on environment economic issues had been problem confronting post-consumer such materials. High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) po...

Antioxidant depletion was evaluated in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane (GM) coupons immersed in radioactive synthetic leachate (RSL) representative of leachate in low-level radioactive waste (LLW) disposal facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s environmental restoration programs. Depletion was assessed at four temperatures (25, 50, 70, and 90°C). Comparative tests w...

One of the most famous methods to predict the stiffness of short fiber composites is micromechanical modeling. In this study, a Representative Volume Element (RVE) of a beech wood flour natural composite has been designed and the orientation averaging approach has been utilized to predict its stiffness tensor. The novelty of this work is in finding the proper fiber orientation distribution func...