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Another feature of an extruder is the presence of a gauze filter after the screw and before the die. This effectively filters out any inhomogeneous material which might otherwise clog the die. These screen packs as they are called, will normally filter the melt to 120-150 fim. However, there is conclusive evidence to show that even smaller particles than this can initiate cracks in plastics extrudates e.g. polyethylene pressure pipes. In such cases it has been found that fine melt filtration ( 45 p.m) can significantly improve the performance of the extrudate. 

A study of the effect of the mesophase layer on the thermomechanical behaviour and the transfer mechanism of loads between phases of composites will be presented in this study. Suitable theoretical models shall be presented, where the mesophase is taken into consideration as an additional intermediate phase. To a first approximation the mesophase material is considered as a homogeneous isotropic one, while, in further approximations, more sophisticated models have been developed, in which the mesophase material is considered as an inhomogeneous material with progressively varying properties between inclusions and matrix. Thus, improvements of the basic Hashin-Rosen models have been incorporated, making the new models more flexible and suitable to describe the real behaviour of composites. 

Danzer K (1995b) Sampling of inhomogeneous materials. Statistical models and their practical relevance. Chem Anal [Warsaw] 40 429... 

Application. Micro- and nanobeam optics are used to demagnify the cross-section of the primary beam. By means of the respective setups structure variation in inhomogeneous materials can be studied with micrometer or nanometer size resolution, respectively. For this purpose the sample is moved through the beam while... 

This is a form of Fick s law for a chemically inhomogeneous material where the intrinsic diffusivity, designated by >1, measures the flux in the local C-frame. A similar procedure for component 2 yields an analogous Fick s-law expression, J2 = -D2dc2/dx. 

Inhomogeneous materials, both natural and man-made, may be classified according to the following factors ... 

A common and exact theory of sampling of inhomogeneous materials with stochastic composition is presented by BRANDS [1983]. Because experimental evaluation of this theory involves some difficulties, it was verified by simulation experiments. 

Plasticized PVC provides an example of an important, frequently studied, and nominally homogeneous material that has yet to be fully characterized. X-ray, infrared and earlier NMR examinations of PVcL3 i have been interpreted as indicating an inhomogeneous material. 

The electrical parameters, especially the conductivity, were investigated early in history of ZnO research. An overwiew over electronic properties of ZnO up to the end of the 1950s was given by Heiland et al. in 1959 [7]. Most of the early investigations up to about 1955 were performed on sintered polycrystalline ZnO samples [4,8], which suffered from the general problem of conduction in porous, inhomogeneous materials with a lower density compared with... 

This is an important step as the surfaces are not always as well defined as the example shown in Fig. 2. Quartz is particularly troublesome, and thick gel layers often exist. For example, McDermott et al. [24] obtained a 85-A thick layer of inhomogeneous material, with a scattering length density intermediate between crystalline quartz and amorphous silicon, on the surface of crystalline quartz. On silicon < 111) a more reproducible oxide layer, in thickness and density, is generally achieved. However, in the past some variability in the hydrophilic nature and hence reproducibility of adsorption has been experienced. This was discussed in detail by Penfold et al. [25], who found that the mild piranha treatment produced a reproducible hydrophilic surface. Other treatments have also been found to be reliable and are discussed in more detail elsewhere [26]. Another important aspect that was discussed by Penfold et al. [25] and that is evident from a number of related studies is that the history of the surface and hence the experimental route can be of vital importance. 

The transport properties of such disordered materials (see Section II) are difficult to study, for several reasons. One is that the microscopic theory of transport is not clear even for perfectly ordered CPs, as discussed in the reviews mentioned above. Another is that a dc or low-frequency conductivity measurement on an inhomogeneous material can be viewed as measuring several resistances in series, the larger playing the major role. For instance, in a fibrillar material interfibril transport is important, in a mixed crystalline-amorphous medium the amorphous regions may limit... 

Again, the above crack kinking and branching criteria are limited to isotropic homogeneous material, which for all practical purposes will include particulate/whisker-filled ceramic matrix composites. No equivalent criterion exists for orthotropic/inhomogeneous material. Limited experimental results show that self-similar crack extension is a rare phenomenon in fracture of fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites and thus the kinking and branching criterion, if developed, must necessarily be a three-dimensional one. 

Two factors will determine the accuracy of the modeling. The first is the accuracy with which the dynamic mechanical properties of the constituent materials is known, and the second is the degree to which the effective modulus theory actually models the properties of the inhomogeneous material. 

The second problem facing the researcher, and the one which is the subject of this paper, is to determine which, if any, effective modulus theory accurately predicts the acoustic wave velocity and attenuation in a microscopically or macroscopically inhomogeneous material. 

Scharnhorst, K. P. Madigosky, W. M. and Balizer, E., "Scattering Coefficients and the Absorption Edge of Longitudinal Coherent Sound Waves in Selected Inhomogeneous Materials," NSWC Technical Report 85-196. Silver Spring, MD, Jun 1985. 

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