Manufacture of acoustical one side-waffle panel made of natural resources with hydraulic hot press machine

Waste generated from natural resources should be recycled as more useful materials. this research has produced acoustical waffle panel material which is useful as an absorber on the noisy housing. acoustical waffle panels was made by hydraulic hot press machine. the purpose of this discussion is to describe the machine design process and compare waffle panels made of coconut fiber and wood sawdust in the best acoustic performances. the result is that the hydraulic hot press machine has the structural strength and stability on the load of 2,500 n and 5,000 n. the hot press machine is safe for both the transverse tensile stress and longitudinal tensile stress which are smaller than the allowable stress of steel material of 40 at 1,100 kg/cm2. it also has the highest sound transmission loss (stl) with the value of 40. 059 db. © 2016 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.