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The mechanism for the transformation of 5 to 4 was not addressed. However, it seems plausible that samarium diiodide accomplishes a reduction of the carbon-chlorine bond to give a transient, resonance-stabilized carbon radical which then adds to a Smni-activated ketone carbonyl or combines with a ketyl radical. Although some intramolecular samarium(n)-promoted Barbier reactions do appear to proceed through the intermediacy of an organo-samarium intermediate (i.e. a Smm carbanion),10 ibis probable that a -elimination pathway would lead to a rapid destruction of intermediate 5 if such a species were formed in this reaction. Nevertheless, the facile transformation of intermediate 5 to 4, attended by the formation of the strained four-membered ring of paeoniflorigenin, constitutes a very elegant example of an intramolecular samarium-mediated Barbier reaction. 

Object in this section is to review how rheological knowledge combined with laboratory data can be used to predict stresses developed in plastics undergoing strains at different rates and at different temperatures. The procedure of using laboratory experimental data for the prediction of mechanical behavior under a prescribed use condition involves two principles that are familiar to rheologists one is Boltzmann s superposition principle which enables one to utilize basic experimental data such as a stress relaxation modulus in predicting stresses under any strain history the other is the principle of reduced variables which by a temperature-log time shift allows the time scale of such a prediction to be extended substantially beyond the limits of the time scale of the original experiment. 

The process of design for static loads involves a great deal more than the mechanical operation of the stress-strain data to determine the performance of a section. The results obtained from the stress analysis are used to determine the functionality of the product and then, combined with the other factors involved to decide on a suitable design. 

Viscoelasticity illustrates materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics. Viscous materials tike honey resist shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied. Elastic materials strain instantaneously when stretched and just as quickly return to their original state once the stress is removed. Viscoelastic materials have elements of both of these properties and, as such, exhibit time-dependent strain. Viscoelasticity is the result of the diffusion of atoms or molecules inside an amorphous material. Rubber is highly elastic, but yet a viscous material. This property can be defined by the term viscoelasticity. Viscoelasticity is a combination of two separate mechanisms occurring at the same time in mbber. A spring represents the elastic portion, and a dashpot represents the viscous component (Figure 28.7). 

PP bead foams were subjected to oblique impacts (167), in which the material was compressed and sheared. This strain combination could occur when a cycle helmet hit a road surface. The results were compared with simple shear tests at low strain rates and to uniaxial compressive tests at impact strain rates. The observed shear hardening was greatest when there was no imposed density increase and practically zero when the angle of impact was less than 15 degrees. The shear hardening appeared to be a unique function of the main tensile extension ratio and was a polymer contribution, whereas the volumetric hardening was due to the isothermal compression of the cell gas. Eoam material models for FEA needed to be reformulated to consider the physics of the hardening mechanisms, so their... 

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