Cover Image

ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH

n industry today, polymer is an important substance that been used since it has versatile characteristics, easy to process and low cost of production. However some mechanical properties such as strength and hardness are low. Therefore, in order to change the mechanical properties, the polymer had be...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2013
Subjects:
TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/1/FYP2%20Dissertation%20-%2013269%20-%20Muhammad%20Zul%20%27Afif.pdf
http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-utp-utpedia.13687
record_format eprints
spelling my-utp-utpedia.136872017-01-25T09:38:44Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/ ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery n industry today, polymer is an important substance that been used since it has versatile characteristics, easy to process and low cost of production. However some mechanical properties such as strength and hardness are low. Therefore, in order to change the mechanical properties, the polymer had been modified by using several methods. One of them is thin film coating. This study of Enhancement of Materials Surface Properties via Surface Coating Process: Polymer Substrate in Silica Sand Bath aimed to introduce new concept of thin film coating using silica sand bath. The method used in this study is by using silica sand bath to form the coating on the polymer. For this study, polypropylene was used as the sample. The polypropylene was immersed in the silica sand. The silica sand was put into the pocket of a ceramic which is brick clay then it was closed with another clay brick. The working temperature is 170°C and it took 4 hours to conduct the experiment. The results were compared by observed the microstructure of the sample using optical microscope by using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM). Based on the results obtain, we can see the different in both testing. The optical microscope shows the shiny surface of the polypropylene which indicates the presence of silica sand. The FESEM testing indicates the image of rough surface of the sample which shows the layer of the silica sand on the surface. The XRF analysis was also used to compare the composition of the surface and the composition of the common silica sand. As a conclusion, the objectives of this study were achieved which are to establish a “new” technique of polymer coating using silica sand bath and to characterize and analyse polymer‟s surface properties after the coating process. Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2013-09 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/1/FYP2%20Dissertation%20-%2013269%20-%20Muhammad%20Zul%20%27Afif.pdf SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF (2013) ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH. Universiti Teknologi Petronas. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Teknologi Petronas
building UTP Resource Centre
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Petronas
content_source UTP Electronic and Digitized Intellectual Asset
url_provider http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/
language English
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF
ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
description n industry today, polymer is an important substance that been used since it has versatile characteristics, easy to process and low cost of production. However some mechanical properties such as strength and hardness are low. Therefore, in order to change the mechanical properties, the polymer had been modified by using several methods. One of them is thin film coating. This study of Enhancement of Materials Surface Properties via Surface Coating Process: Polymer Substrate in Silica Sand Bath aimed to introduce new concept of thin film coating using silica sand bath. The method used in this study is by using silica sand bath to form the coating on the polymer. For this study, polypropylene was used as the sample. The polypropylene was immersed in the silica sand. The silica sand was put into the pocket of a ceramic which is brick clay then it was closed with another clay brick. The working temperature is 170°C and it took 4 hours to conduct the experiment. The results were compared by observed the microstructure of the sample using optical microscope by using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM). Based on the results obtain, we can see the different in both testing. The optical microscope shows the shiny surface of the polypropylene which indicates the presence of silica sand. The FESEM testing indicates the image of rough surface of the sample which shows the layer of the silica sand on the surface. The XRF analysis was also used to compare the composition of the surface and the composition of the common silica sand. As a conclusion, the objectives of this study were achieved which are to establish a “new” technique of polymer coating using silica sand bath and to characterize and analyse polymer‟s surface properties after the coating process.
format Final Year Project
author SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF
author_facet SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF
author_sort SARU @ SARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD ZUL „AFIF
title ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
title_short ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
title_full ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
title_fullStr ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
title_full_unstemmed ENHANCEMENT OF MATERIALS SURFACE PROPERTIES VIA SURFACE COATING PROCESS: POLYMER SUBSTRATE IN SILICA SAND BATH
title_sort enhancement of materials surface properties via surface coating process: polymer substrate in silica sand bath
publisher Universiti Teknologi Petronas
publishDate 2013
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/1/FYP2%20Dissertation%20-%2013269%20-%20Muhammad%20Zul%20%27Afif.pdf
http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13687/
_version_ 1739831925755871232
score 13.211869

Similar Items