科创中国

新兴行业

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH or UMS is a Malaysian public university located in the Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Refer to www.ums.edu.my for further information.Currently, most of the marine transportation screw propulsion systems are utilizingmetalalloy based propeller. Disadvantages of metalalloy propeller includes theweight factor, corrosion due to cavitation phenomenon and seawater salinity effect,availability of raw metal material resource, high production cost and others.Therefore, polymer composite marine propeller is an alternative solution to thecurrent metal based marine propeller.