A rapid hot press system in which the heat is supplied by RF induction to rapidly consolidate thermoelectric materials is described. Use of RF induction heating enables rapid heating and consolidation of powdered materials over a wide temperature range. Such rapid consolidation in nanomaterials is typically performed by spark plasma sintering (SPS) which can be much more expensive. Details of t...

In this paper we present a numerical solution for the mathematical modeling of the hot-pressing process applied to medium density fiberboard. The model is based in the work of Humphrey [1982], Humphrey and Bolton [1989] and Carvalho and Costa [1998], with some modifications and extensions in order to take into account mainly the convective effects on the phase change term and also a conservativ...

In wood composite panel hot-pressing, interactions between resin, wood, and moisture complicate the interpretation of dielectric analysis cure monitoring (also known as impedance cure monitoring) signals. In investigating the application of dielectric cure monitoring to oriented-strandboard (OSB) hot-pressing, pairs of fringe-field dielectric sensors were built into resinless laboratory strand ...