Design of a pultrusion die using a design optimization technique

<p>The objective of this study is to design a pultrusion die with a desired temperature proflle. Design optimization programs were developed to synthesize the number of cartridge heaters, power input and location of each cartridge heater for a laboratory-scale pultrusion die. This is the fust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Awa, Teck Wah
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44259
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040230/