Author:Guduri, BBR; George, S; Lawrence, CC; Anandjiwala, RDDate:Dec 2007The main objective of this research was to study the effect of water absorption on mechanical properties of hemp fibre reinforcement for polyolefin’s (PP & HDPE) composites. The poor resistance towards water absorption is one of the drawbacks ...Read more
Author:Phan, AV; Napier, JAL; Gray, LJ; Kaplan, TDate:14 Jun 2003A symmetric-Galerkin boundary element framework for fracture analysis with frictional contact (crack friction) on the crack surfaces is presented. The algorithm employs a continuous interpolation on the crack surface (utilizing quadratic ...Read more