Plasticizers anomalies

When a molten plastic is forced through a die it is found that under certain conditions there will be defects in the extrudate. In the worst case this will take the form of gross distortion of the extrudate but it can be as slight as a dullness of the surface. In most cases flow defects are to be avoided since they affect the quality of the output and the efficiency of the processing operation. However, in some cases if the flow anomaly can be controlled and reproduced, it can be used to advantage - for example, in the production of sheets with matt surface finish. Flow defects result from a combination of melt flow properties, die design and processing conditions but the exact causes and mechanisms are not completely understood. The two most common defects are... 

A typical time profile of the excited PMMA-Phe fluorescence intensity decay is shown in Figure 2. The MEK permeation commences at 24 sec. The SPR increases during the plasticization period until it becomes constant, the onset of the steady state. It is characterized by a linear relationship between the amount of solvent absorbed and time. It was determined from a linear regression analysis that the PMMA-Phe fluorescence intensity starts to deviate from linearity at 197 sec. This indicates a decrease in the SPR and/or the unquenched PMMA-Phe. The decrease in SPR is unexpected at this film thickness since the SPR in thicker PMMA-Phe films show no anomaly at 1 /tm. A more plausible explanation is the reduction in available PMMA-Phe, which is expected when the front end of the SCP reaches the substrate. 

Although there are some anomalies in the literature, it is generally agreed that both types of volume deformation are a function of the same fundamental mechanism and that the influence of other factors such as admixtures will affect both shrinkage and creep in a similar manner. As outlined earlier, water-reducing admixtures can be used to obtain different effects on the plastic/hardened concrete and it is this factor, together with the admixture type, that is important in determining the effect on the volume deformations of concrete. 

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Hydrophobic polymers and films, such as paraffin wax and poly (vinyl chloride), show no change in stiffness modulus when flooded with water. On the other hand, butyl alcohol on a paraffin wax film causes a slow, slight increase of stiffness modulus over a period of several minutes. The effect of benzene on paraffin films is similar to that of methanol on PVA. A poly (vinyl chloride) film is unaffected by plasticizers such as dimethyl and diethyl phthalate over short time periods. However, PVC gives rise to the ultrasonic modulus anomaly when contacted with tetrahydrofuran, a strong solvent for PVC. The plasticizing effect of dibutyl phthalate on polystyrene has been demonstrated by ultrasonic impedometry (16). No anomalies were found. 

Compatibility signifies the ability of two or more substances to mix intimately to form a homogeneous composition with useful plastic properties. The anomalies of why one solvent will dissolve a given resin, another will only swell it, and a third will leave the resin unaffected have promoted a considerable amount of empirical work and extensive theoretical explanation. Applying thermodynamic theory to real solutions led to several the Hildebrand solubility parameter 6 based on cohesive energy (12). the Flory-Huggins parameter, X (13). and several newer parameters with sharper precision but which are more difficult to apply. 

Another apparent anomaly in the plastic behaviour of ice is the absence of any preferred glide direction in the basal plane. Metals glide preferentially in the most closely packed direction of the most closely packed plane and we might expect similar preference for glide in the directions in ice, since the necessary dislocations exist. Instead of his, the glide is nearly isotropic in the... 

After the introduction of polar sulfonic functions or quaternary ammonium groups into the polystyrene network, the material becomes hydro-phihc water solvates the polar groups of the polymer chains, thus plasticizing the polymeric phase. As in the case of removing toluene from nonpolar sorbents by drying, the removal of water from the hydrophilic matrices of ion-exchange resins is accompanied mainly by non-elastic, plastic, deformations of the polymer network stressed by capillary contraction. Under these conditions of plasticization of the polymer phase by water, the desweUing anomaly manifests itself primarily as an abrupt decrease in the bead volume, with a subsequent slow approach to an... 

The observed anomalies in the character of change in the glass transition temperatrrre of a soft phase of polyurethane block copolymers ditring plasticization and mechanical behavior of such materials can be explained if it is considered that the chemical stmcture of soft phase and hydrogen bonds distribution may significantly change. 

The idealized laws just reviewed can, however, not describe the behavior of matter if the ratios of stress to strain or of stress to rate of strain is not constant, known as stress anomalies. Plastic deformation is a common example of such non-ideal behavior. It occurs for solids if the elastic limit is exceeded and irreversible deformation takes place. Another deviation from ideal behavior occurs if the stress depends simultaneously on both, strain and rate of strain, a property called a time anomaly. In case of time anomaly the substance shows both solid and liquid behavior at the same time. If only time anomalies are present, the behavior is called linear... 

The analyses of several polymers by dynamic mechanical analysis, DMA, are described in Sect. 4.5 in connection with the brief description of the DMA equipment. It was observed in such experiments that neither the viscosity nor the modulus are constant, as is assumed for the discussion of energy and entropy elasticity, outlined in Sects. 5.6.4 and 5.6.5, respectively. One finds a stress anomaly when the elastic limit of a material has been exceeded and plastic deformation occurs. Other deviations have the stress depend both on strain and rate of strain. Finally, a time anomaly exists whenever the stress/strain ratio depends only on time and not on the stress magnitude. 

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