Abstract:
Environmentally friendly or green building materials are becoming more widely used as our
society becomes aware of harmful consequences associated with the use of standard practices in
industrial production. This leads to growing tendency of recycling of waste materials and using
them production of particle boards. Particle Boards are produced from Municipal solid waste, agro-waste materials such as rice husk, jute sticks, waste wood, sugarcane waste, kitchen waste, maize
cob etc. The mechanical properties such as high surface hardness and flexural strength plays a vital
role in the efficient usage of them for domestic and industrial purposes. All these properties
majorly depend on the kind of raw material used and these properties may be improved for the
quality betterment of the products and also their applications can be extended. The present study
deals about the optimization process parameters (Pressing Temperature, Pressing Time and Resin
content) using grey rational methods for Maize Cob particle board production and their mechanical
properties for improving flexural strength and Hardness.
Key words:- Grey rational methods, Optimization