An empirical study of industrial design contribution to advances in timber materials science

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An empirical study of industrial design contribution to advances in timber materials science

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Title: An empirical study of industrial design contribution to advances in timber materials science
Author(s): Thong, Christine; Kuys, Blair
Abstract: Materials Science typically engages research expertise from fields such as engineering, chemistry and physics. This paper will examine how industrial design successfully contributed to timber materials science in the initial phases of basic research. Research from two PhD studies, completed in conjunction with the Australian Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Wood Innovations, will be used as case studies. These case studies discuss examples from research projects investigating new Microwave Modified Timber (MMT) materials development along with surface modified timber. Findings concur that industrial design research was beneficial to early scientific experiments.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design
Source: Advanced Materials Research: Advanced Materials: selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Processes (ICAMMP 2011), Guilin, China, 16-18 December 2011 / Jinglong Bu, Zhengyi Jiang and Sihai Jiao (eds.), Vol. 415-417, pp. 248-253
Publication year: 2012
FOR Code(s): 0912 Materials Engineering
Keyword(s): Industrial design; Interdisciplinary collaborative research; Materials science; Microwave modified timber; Surface modified timber; Timber
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
ISSN: 1022-6680 (series ISSN)
ISBN: 9783037853252, 3037853255
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.415-417.248
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