Flexible materials

This type of coil was prepared from copper cladded printed circuit board material by applying photolithographic techniques. The p.c. board material is available with difierent copper thicknesses and with either a stiff or a flexible carrier. The flexible material offers the opportunity to adapt the planar coil to a curved three dimensional test object. In our turbine blade application this is a major advantage. The thickness of the copper layer was chosen to be 17 pm The period of the coil was 100 pm The coils were patterned by wet etching, A major advantage of this approach is the parallel processing with narrow tolerances, resulting in many identical Eddy current probes. An example of such a probe is shown in fig. 10. 

Eresh fmit and vegetable packaging is often in bulk in a variety of traditional wooden boxes and crates, and cormgated fiberboard cases. At or near the retail level, bulk produce may be repackaged in oxygen-permeable flexible materials such as PVC, with or without a tray of foamed polystyrene. 

Some heavier gauge flexible materials, usually containing nylon, are thermoformed, ie, heated and formed into three-dimensional shapes. Such stmctures are used to provide high gas-barrier, heat-sealable containment for processed meat or cheese. 

Low-density polyethylene, a tough, relatively flexible material, is used at temperatures up to 50°C and does not become brittle until the temperature falls to -40 C. 

Schlauch, m. tube, tubing, pipe (of flexible material), hose skin (for holding something) (Mining) ore pipe, ore chimney j drimkard glutton. 

Being slightly crystalline, there are few good solvents, the best known of which are nitrobenzene, cyclohexanone and tetrahydrofuran. When mixed with certain non-volatile solvents such as some phthalates, adipates and phosphates, flexible materials are obtained and which are referred to as plasticised p. v.c. 

Plastic elastomers are generally lower-modulus flexible materials that can be stretched repeatedly and will return to their approximate original length when the stresses are released. The rubber materials have been around for over a century. They will always be required to meet certain desired properties, but thermoplastic TPEs are replacing traditional TS natural and synthetic rubbers (elastomers). TPEs are also... 

This paper describes an irradiation curing method which improves the mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of multilayered flexible materials, increases the bond strength among the adhesively bonded layers, and provides flexible packages that can withstand the thermo-... 

As a typically flexible material, P4HB has been widely researched in cardiovascular, wound healing, orthopedic, drug delivery, and tissue-engineering fields. ... 

Brauer, Stansbury Flowers (1986) modified these cements in several ways. The addition of various adds - acetic, propionic, benzoic etc. -accelerated the set. The use of zinc oxide powders coated with propionic add improved mixing, accelerated set, reduced brittleness and increased compressive strength from 63 to a maximum of 72 MPa. The addition of plasticizing agents such as zinc undecenylate yielded flexible materials. Incorporation of metal powders had a deleterious effect and greatly increased the brittleness of these cements. The addition of fluorides was not very successful, for fluoride release was not sustained. 

A schematic cross-section of a p-i-n a-Si H solar cell [11] is shown in Figure 72a. In this so-called superstrate configuration (the light is incident from above), the material onto which the solar cell structure is deposited, usually glass, also serves as a window to the cell. In a substrate configuration the carrier onto which the solar cell structure is deposited forms the back side of the solar cell. The carrier usually is stainless steel, but flexible materials such as metal-coated polymer foil (e.g. polyimid) ora very thin metal make the whole structure flexible [11]. 

Belt conveyors are the most commonly used type of equipment for the continuous transport of solids. They can carry a wide range of materials economically over long and short distances both horizontally or at an appreciable angle, depending on the angle of repose of the solids. A belt conveyor consists of an endless belt of a flexible material, supported on rollers (idlers), and passing over larger rollers at each end, one of which is... 

Table I summarizes the conditions used for network synthesis. The amount of TMSEMA was determined by the amount of HEMA required for a desired composition. The AIBN concentrations were kept low to insure adequate chain growth during the copolymerization (that is network formation). The obtained networks were transparent, homogeneous, tough, flexible materials demonstrating the utility of the approach. Desilylation of the networks was carried out by the use of...

Polyvinyl chloride is also widely used. Rigid polyvinyl chloride is introduced to the mold in powder form. The material is chosen for durable constructions because of its chemical resistance and ease of processing. It incorporates functional additives and demolds easily. Plasticized polyvinyl chloride can be used to produce flexible parts such as balls and soft toy parts. The polyvinyl chloride is introduced to the mold as either a plastisol or powder. A plastisol is a suspension of granules in a plasticizing agent. When heated, the polymer granules absorb the plasticizer and fuse to form a cohesive, flexible material. 

An intact polythene membrane within the concrete base of a building will prevent pressure driven flow of radon into the building from the soil, even if the concrete is cracked. Diffusive flow of radon into the building will also be reduced because of the comparatively low diffusion coefficient of radon in polythene ( v 10 7 cm2 s"1). No significant improvement was achieved by substituting a 50 ym sheet of mylar for polythene (mylar diffusion coefficient x 10"11 cm2 s"1). In this case additional difficulties were experienced in sealing the less flexible material to the walls. 

The flexible material can be Be-Cu, but also plastic (Kapton). The starting temperature for the refrigeration of a Pomeranchuck cell is usually around 25 mK, produced by a DR. Recent realization of Pomeranchuck refrigerators can be found in ref. [6-7,13]... 

The effect of degradation agents on low temperature behaviour must be relevant in many applications but is virtually never specifically measured. There are low temperature tests for flexible materials (ISO 458 [36] and ISO 974 [37]), but generally DMTA or impact methods might be more appropriate. 

Tear strength is only applicable to flexible materials and is very little used to monitor ageing simply because tensile strength will serve perfectly well. There are circumstances where compression stress-strain properties would be relevant but the relatively bulky test pieces will be subject to the limitation of oxygen diffusion in any accelerated tests and changes can probably be estimated from tensile measurements. Similarly, shear stress-strain is very rarely used for monitoring ageing. 

ISO 458, Parts 1 2, Plastics - Determination of stiffness in torsion of flexible materials, 1985. 

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