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| Project Leader: | Ruaa Al-Mezrakchi ruaayaseen@tamu.edu Mechanical Engineering |
| Faculty Mentor: | Terry Creasy, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Summer 2016 (complete) |
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Team Size:
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4 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Opportunity to get involved in an industry and academic project at the same time, and see how the industry work looks like. Get experience in lab experiments. Get opportunity to learn the process of high performance polymer. Learn how 3D printing works and get involved in the process and the design of the parts. Get some experience with the CNC and see how it works. Gain research credit hours. Enhance your resume. Increase your knowledge in polymer. Get some experience on how to run mechanical tests such as tensile, flexural, and compression tests. In addition to get some idea about how some equipment work such as the DSC and X-Ray. Get involved in the research field and gain more experience. |
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Description:
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This project study polymer crystallization in polyaryletherketones (PEAK), a polymer family that includes PEEK and PEKK. These materials have a broad future with tremendous impact for different fields such as oil and gas exploration and aerospace structure. Our main work stands for oil and gas exploration consortium (APPEAL), which means Advancing Performance Polymer in Energy Applications (http://ptc.tamu.edu/appeal.html). In this study, we will focus on processing the high performance polymer without fillers. Then we will see the effect of adding fibers such as glass fibers, carbon fibers, and carbon nanofibers. We are going to build a new system for processing this kind of high performance polymer (PEAK) such that it will simulate the industry process. Several equipment will be used and different experiments will be run such as CNC, 3D printing, DSC, X-Ray, and SEM spectroscopy. SolidWorks will be used to design some parts. In addition, number of tests will be required which include tensile, flexural, and compression tests. The project results will have a tremendous impact on the industry process in general and the future of the high performance polymer in specific.
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