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This test attempts to characterize the brittleness of bitumen at low temperatures. It consists of measuring the temperature at which fissures appear on a bitumen film spread on a blade as it is repeatedly flexed. This test is delicate and of questionable reliability, but it is currently the only one that allows the elastic behavior of bitumen on decreasing temperature to be characterized. It is standardized in France (T 66-026). 

Modified ETEE is less dense, tougher, and stiffer and exhibits a higher tensile strength and creep resistance than PTEE, PEA, or EEP resins. It is ductile, and displays in various compositions the characteristic of a nonlinear stress—strain relationship. Typical physical properties of Tef2el products are shown in Table 1 (24,25). Properties such as elongation and flex life depend on crystallinity, which is affected by the rate of crysta11i2ation values depend on fabrication conditions and melt cooling rates. 

A combination of excellent chemical and mechanical properties at elevated temperatures results in rehable, high performance service to the chemical processing and related industries. Chemical inertness, heat resistance, toughness and flexibiUty, stress-crack resistance, excellent flex life, antistick characteristics, Htfle moisture absorption, nonflammability, and exceptional dielectric properties are among the characteristics of these resins. 

Compression Set. The compression set is an important property ki cushioning appHcations. It has been studied for polyurethane foams (185,186), and has been discussed ki reviews (32,60,156). Compression set has been described as flex fatigue and creep as weU. 

Grade 1—T1 Flex strength, MPa Water absorption, % Permittivity, 1 MHz Dissipation factor, 1 MHz Impact strength, J/m Dielectric breakdown parallel to laminations, kV... 

Leather finishes penetrate to a greater or lesser extent and have a profound effect on the grain or wrinkle characteristics of the leather. Penetration of the resia into the leather tightens the grain but may produce a surface stiffness and a tendency toward grain cracking upon flexing. The development of leather finish resins and the appHcation of these finishes is done by specialty houses. 

Vinyl-coated fabrics exhibit high density, extremely low water vapor and air permeabiUty, cold touch, poor flex endurance, and plasticizer migration. However, they have good scratch resistance and colorabiUty and are inexpensive. 

Product Substrate/fiber Coating Weight, Thick Density, Tensile Elongation Tear Water-vap Flex... 

Handle-O-Meter abihty of a soft, lightweight nonwoven to flex and not drag as it is pushed through an opening 90.3... 

A cable or flex circuit is often employed as an interconnection between electronic circuits that are not easily coimected by other means. The interconnection density obtained with a cable or flex circuit is lower than that achieved with a backpanel. 

Copper is by far the most widely used conductor material. It has high electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, solderabiUty, and resistance to corrosion, wear, and fatigue. Annealed copper conductors can withstand flex and vibration stresses normally encountered in use. 

The 9,9-dimethylacridan formed ia the reactioa betweea diphenylamine and acetone, besides functioning as an antioxidant, also improves the flex fife of mbber vulcani2ates siace it forms a more stable nitroxyl radical than the alkylated diphenylamiaes. 

There are two types of impulse printers (Eig. 19). A piezoelectric ink jet propels a drop by flexing one or more walls of the firing chamber to decrease rapidly the volume of the firing chamber. This causes a pressure pulse and forces out a drop of ink. The flexing wall is either a piezoelectric crystal or a diaphragm driven by a piezoelectric incorporated into the firing chamber (Eig. 19a). Thermal impulse ink jets also propel one drop at a time, but these use rapid bubble formation to force part of the ink in a firing chamber out the orifice (Eig. 19b). 

Piezoelecttic impulse ink-jet printers ate especially sensitive to bubbles in the ink. A bubble in the firing chamber absorbs some of the comptessional force from the flexing of the chamber wall and reduces drop volume and drop velocity, thereby affecting print quaHty. Because of the limited range of motion of the crystal, bubbles ate not readily ejected, and the loss of print quaHty owing to their presence is persistent. 

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