Design, optimization and manufacturing of wood-plastic composite pallet

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4183-4191

  Soury, E ^a   Behravesh, A H ^a   Rouhani Esfahani, E ^a   Zolfaghari, A ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Pallet; Wood plastic composite

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; EXTRUDED PROFILES; EXTRUSION PROCESS; FINITE ELEMENTS ANALYSIS; HIGH LOAD; INNOVATIVE METHOD; MAXIMUM LOAD; MICRO GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMS; OPTIMIZATION TASK; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; PROFILE SECTIONS; VISUAL BASIC; WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITE; WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES;

BENDING STRENGTH; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HIGH ENERGY FORMING; PALLETS; PLASTICS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BENDING; EXTRUSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORMING; OPTIMIZATION; PALLETS; POLYMER WOOD COMBINATIONS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 67649390767     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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