Developments New Processing Of Marble SyntheticBased On Blend Polymers And Glass Sand AsReinforcement Filler

Abstract

Artificial marble could be defined as a substitute product of natural marble. It is a new composite contain resin such as unsaturated polyester and reinforcement material as filler. Filler used in this study was glass sand. Both resin and filler are mixed mechanically or hand layout, then molded after cured to produce marble. Artificial marble is fabricated as the real marble by using pigments, chips etc. Onyx which is a kind of quartz that very transparency including aluminium trihydroxide, glass frits is used also as secondary fillers for decorative purposes. A detailed of resulting properties such as mechanical behavior are presented in this work.
The present study is directed to solving problems and provides artificial marble which exhibits an aesthetic pattern equivalent or superior to that of natural marble, has excellent mechanical strength and gloss, and does not contain impurities including bubbles therein.