Natural Fiber Composites: Optimization of Microstructure and Processing Parameters

• Main Author: Birgitha Nyström
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Patience; Luleå
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.474.4886; http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2007/31/LTU-LIC-0731-SE.pdf

“The world is not ours; we borrow it from our children” PREFACE The work presented in this thesis has been carried out at SICOMP and at Luleå University of Technology. It concerns compounded and injection molded natural fiber composites. I would like to thank my supervisors: Dr. Roberts Joffe and Prof. Janis Varna and my colleagues at SICOMP, especially Runar Långström who performed much of the experimental work. I would also like to acknowledge the EU projects BIOCOMPAC and Fibernätverket and Forskarskola för kvinnor III for funding this research. Last but not least I want to thank my family for their patience with a wife, a mother and a daughter who never seems to be willing to end her search. I love you all!