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In Chapter 5, the CTE was determined by experimental method only <strong>an</strong>d it would<br />

be more convincing if these experimental results could be compared against the<br />

numerical results as well in the future. Therefore, the future work will be more<br />

challenging <strong>an</strong>d interesting if ABAQUS or other FEA software c<strong>an</strong> work with the<br />

model that is subjected to temperature load rather th<strong>an</strong> pressure only. In terms of<br />

instruments used in the current work, it would be more realistic if the temperature<br />

surface detector were to be used together with the bonded temperature sensor so that the<br />

data from these two c<strong>an</strong> be compared against each other. Hence, better results c<strong>an</strong> be<br />

produced in the future.<br />

In Chapter 5 also, some limitations were addressed. One of them was the use of a<br />

home oven as a heating oven. Based on the difficulties in controlling the temperature<br />

properly, it is recommended that a properly controllable heat oven be used to measure<br />

the thermal output in future research. Therefore, a proper thermal output experiment c<strong>an</strong><br />

be carried out in the future. Another possible reason why the CTE value at the fourth<br />

layer was very low may be because of the thermal residual strain effects. The thermal<br />

strain will be more accurate <strong>an</strong>d sensible if the net thermal strain is produced after<br />

deducting not only thermal output but also residual strain. However, in the current<br />

work, this thermal residual strain was assumed to be negligible.<br />

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