INTRODUCTION 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 9 METHODOLOGY 38 DATA RESULTS 55 ANALYSIS DISCUSSION 71

v TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT i ABSTRAK ii DEDICATION iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF ABBREVIATION xii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background of study 1

1.2 Problem statements 2

1.3 Project objectives 2

1.4 Scope of project 3

1.5 Importance of project 3

1.6 Limitation of current design 4

1.7 New Ideas 4

1.8 Schematic of project 5

1.9 Gantt Chart 7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 9

2.1 Floating pump 10

2.2 Quality Function Deployment QFD 13

2.3 Solidwork CAD 16

2.4 ANSYS CFX 17

2.5 MSc NastranPatran 19

2.6 Finite Element Analysis FEA 20

2.7 Product Design 21

2.7.1 Definition of Engineering Process 22

2.7.2 Design Process 22

2.7.3 A Generic Development Process 28

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2.7.4 Concept Development Phase 29

2.8 Fixture system 30

2.8.1 Elements of the fixtures 30

2.8.2 Advantages of the fixtures 30

2.8.3 Clamping Element 31

2.8.3.1 Principle of clamping 31

2.8.3.2 Work holder 33

2.8.3.3 Basic rules of clamping 34

2.8.3.4 Positioning the clamping 34

2.8.3.5 Clamping forces 34

2.8.4 Supporting and locating principle 35

2.8.4.1 Locating method 36

2.9 Fused Deposition Modelling FDM 36

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 38

3.1 Introduction 38

3.2 Methodology 39

3.2.1 Phase 0: Planning 41

3.2.2 Phase 1: Concept Development 41

3.2.3 Phase 2: Detail Design 41

3.2.4 Phase 3: Machining, Analysis Refinement 42

3.2.5 Phase 4: Report submission final presentation 42

3.3 Material, hardware and software requirement 43

3.4 Wok Planning 43

3.5 Concept selection 45

3.6 Explanation about the design 48

3.7 Design Need 51

3.8 Rapid Prototyping Procedure 52

CHAPTER 4: DATA RESULTS 55

4.1 Introduction 55

4.2 Technical Drawing 56

4.2.1 Detail Drawing part by part with dimension 57

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4.2.2 Projected view Full assembly 62

4.2.3 Bill Of Material 63

4.2.4 Material Selection 64

4.3 Design Analysis 65

4.4 Simulation Result 65

4.4.1 NastranPatran 66

4.4.1.1 Holder Support 66

4.4.1.2 Pump Holder 66

4.4.1.3 Base 67

4.4.2 ANSYS CFX10 69

4.5 Rapid Prototyping product 69

CHAPTER 5: ANALYSIS DISCUSSION 71

5.1 Mesh Analysis 71

5.1.1 ANSYS CFX10 72

5.1.2 MSc NastranPatran 72

5.2 Analysis NastranPatran 72

5.2.1 Deformation analysis 72

5.2.2 Stress Tensor 73

5.2.3 Safety factor 74

5.2.4 Shear Stress factor 74

5.3 Limitation of the Rapid Prototyping Machine 75

5.4 Scenario 1 75

5.4.1 Model 75

5.4.2 Structural Support 76

5.5 Structural Load 77

5.6 Scenario 2 78

5.6.1 Model 2 78

5.6.2 Structural load 78

CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS 80