The Utilization Of Coconut Shell Waste As The Helmet Coating Materials For Motorcycle Riders

Coconut tree is a plant that can be easily found almost in every corner of Indonesian archipelago, therefore there are plentiful number of coconut produced here. Currently, the utilization of coconut shell waste is still limited to homemade furniture industries and crafts. It has not been made into...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2019-11, Vol.1273 (1), p.12083
Main Authors: Sulistyo, Bambang, Nugroho, Rio, Prihantoro, Rino
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coating
coconut shell
creative
Hardness
helmet
Helmets
Motorcycles
Papal visits
Physics
Protective coatings
unique
Utilization
waste
Weight
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Summary:Coconut tree is a plant that can be easily found almost in every corner of Indonesian archipelago, therefore there are plentiful number of coconut produced here. Currently, the utilization of coconut shell waste is still limited to homemade furniture industries and crafts. It has not been made into technology product. The utilization of coconut shell waste as the helmet coating materials to be creative business product is an innovation in the form of helmet product making use of coconut shell waste. The second-hand helmet can be redesigned and recreated by making use the coconut shell waste as the outer coating. In other words, the ordinary or broken helmet can be transformed into a helmet which has unique, aesthetic and economical values. It is because coconut shell waste has a big potential to be made as a strong coating of motorcycle helmet that is more eco-friendly and is supporting the idea to utilize the waste into a valuable and sophisticated product. Accordingly, this research was conducted to make use the potential of coconut shell waste as unique, endurable, strong, and valuable helmet coating in order to answer the problem related to the large amount of coconut shell waste. This research found that coconut shell waste can be successfully turned into and used as helmet coating and in making a strong helmet from coconut shell waste, the thickness and weight of a coconut shell may have effect on the hardness level of the shell. The most effective hardness of coconut shell discovered in this research was 3.3 mm thick with 5 grams of weight.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1273/1/012083