FABRICATION JIG FOR PEEL TEST USING TENSILE MACHINE

Abstract

Peel test is performed between two substrates that are bonded together with an adhesive. The substrates may be both flexible or one may be rigid while the other one may be flexible. The adhesive will generally take the form of a thin layer between the two substrate. For an example, the adhesive is located on the underside of a piece of tape that had been placed against aluminum plate. Peel tester or peel test machine are universal test machines that are specially configured to determine the adhesive peel strength or the strength of the adhesive bond between two materials. Students conducted this final year project to design and fabricate a suitable peel test jig for UniKL MIMET using the Insron Universal Tensile Machine (UTM) at the laboratory. New peel test machine is highly in cost so students came out with an idea to design and fabricate a low cost peel test jig so that Unikl MIMET can save much more expenses and use the peel test jig for learning purposes. Besides that, UniKL MIMET can use the peel test jig on the Instron UTM to conduct peel test experiment. Upon the completion of the fabrication of peel test jig, students demonstrate and test the peel test jig on the Instron UTM and it is fit and work very well on the Instron UTM. All the objectives are achieved and the results are excellent for this project.