Experimental Investigation of Sorghum Stalk and Sugarcane Bagasse Hybrid Composite for Particleboard

Table 10

Actual and theoretical densities of the particleboard.

# Experiment	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Ave. Thickness (mm)	8.08	8.35	8.21	7.78	8.02	8.50	7.25	7.87	7.65
Ave. Mass (g)	12.20	13.23	11.54	11.25	12.23	12.89	9.98	11.52	12.09
Theoretical density (ρ) (g/cm^3)	0.604	0.634	0.562	0.593	0.610	0.607	0.551	0.586	0.632
Actual density (ρ) (g/cm^3)	0.442	0.422	0.410	0.419	0.457	0.487	0.457	0.425	0.417
Volume fraction of voids (%)	0.37	0.51	0.37	0.34	0.33	0.25	0.21	0.38	0.52