Screwless extrusion of natural fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites

Composites Technologies For 2020

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-32

  Galea, Timothy ^a   Mills, Tony ^a   Halliwell, Rex ^a   Jayaraman, Krishnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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