Paper Title:

Syntactic Foams Consolidated with Starch: Modelling for Pre-Mould Processing

Periodical Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 29 - 30)
Main Theme Advanced Materials and Processing IV
Edited by Deliang Zhang, Kim Pickering, Brian Gabbitas, Peng Cao, Alan Langdon, Rob Torrens and Johan Verbeek
Pages 165-168
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.29-30.165
Citation M.M. Islam et al., 2007, Advanced Materials Research, 29-30, 165
Online since November, 2007
Authors M.M. Islam, Ho Sung Kim
Keywords Analytical Modeling, Hollow Microsphere, Manufacturing, Numerical Analysis, Starch, Syntactic Foam
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Abstract

Various manufacturing parameters involved in the ‘buoyancy method’ were inter-related. An equation based on unit cell models for a relation between volume expansion ratio (VER) of bulk microspheres in aqueous starch and microsphere size was derived. A good agreement between the equation and experimental data was found. The inter-microsphere distance (MID) concept was introduced and it was demonstrated that the MID can be calculated numerically for microspheres with known statistical data.