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DMA provides materials scientists, pol5mer chemists, and design engineers with detailed information on the elastic and inelastic (plastic) deformation of materials, modulus, and damping (energy dissipation) properties of materials. The damping behavior of S5mthetic and natural mbbers is important in vibration and acoustic application, for example. 

In addition, it is clear from the derivation of Eq. (5) that U represents the energy obtainable from the deformed material rather than the energy put into deforming it. For a material with energy-dissipating properties, the energy available for fracture is only a fraction of that supplied. Such a material will therefore appear doubly strong in a tensile test or in any other fracture process... 

Most plastics materials may be considered as electrical insulators, i.e., they are able to withstand a potential difference between different points of a given piece of material with the passage of only a small electric current and a low dissipation energy. When assessing a potential insulating material, information on the following properties will be required ... 

The phase angle shift can be used to obtain contrast due to local differences in energy dissipation as a consequence of different surface characteristics related to materials properties. These different properties allow one to differentiate materials with different adhesion [110] or widely different Young s moduli, if these differences are related to differences in energy dissipation [111-115]. Hence the amorphous and crystalline phases in semicrystalline polymers can be clearly differentiated, as discussed in Sect. 3.2, as well as different phases in polymer blends or filled systems (see below). As an example, we show in Fig. 3.52 an intermittent contact AFM phase image of a block copolymer thin film on silicon [116]. 

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