Manufacture of syntactic foams using starch as binder: Post-mold processing

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 884-892

  Islam, Md Mainul ^a   Kim, Ho Sung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Bulk volume; Bulk volume expansion; Buoyancy; Gelatinization; Hollow microsphere; Manufacture; Mixing; Model; Phase volume; Post mold processing; Shrinkage; Simple Cubic cell; Starch; Syntactic foam; Transition

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUOYANCY; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FORMING; GELATION; MICROSPHERES; MIXING; MIXTURES; MOLDS; PHASE SEPARATION; PROCESSING; SEPARATION; SHRINKAGE; STARCH; SYNTACTICS; TITRATION; WATER CONTENT;

BULK VOLUME; BULK VOLUME EXPANSION; GELATINIZATION; HOLLOW MICROSPHERE; PHASE VOLUME; POST-MOLD PROCESSING; SIMPLE CUBIC CELL; SYNTACTIC FOAM; TRANSITION;

BOROPHOSPHATE GLASS;

EID: 54949095420     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426910802413661     Document Type: Article

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