Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0989020

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0989020

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Numerically Robust Extruder Die Design for Fabricating High-Quality Preforms for Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres. Microstructural polymer optical fibres (mPOFs) were pioneered in Australia, are now comparable in performance (but much more versatile) than conventional polymer fibre, and are a highly attractive commercial option. Potential industrial applications envisage cost-effective preform fabrication as a key issue, with extrusion as the favoured route. This interdisciplinary project benefits Australia by (i) extending and exploiting our research advantages in advanced photonics and computational rheology, (ii) providing the 'missing link' for large-scale mPOF production and positioning us to reap the economic benefits of this innovative technology, and (iii) providing computational techniques for rheological modelling that are applicable in diverse Australian industry sectors.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-01-2009

End Date: 26-11-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $405,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Polymers | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Computation Theory and Mathematics | Numerical Analysis

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Telecommunications | Network transmission equipment | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) |

Other Keywords

Computation Theory and Mathematics | Network transmission equipment | Numerical Analysis | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) | Polymers | Telecommunications

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